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1. Ring of Fire breakthrough can’t come soon enough

   According to a recent report in the Financial Post, the Ford government is seeking to break the continuing gridlock over developing Ontario’s vast chromite deposits in an area known as the Ring of Fire. Ontario’s chromite deposits are ...

2. Ontario’s flawed electricity system subsidizes neighbouring jurisdictions

   A recent study by the Ontario Society of Professional Engineers (OSPE) found that cheap exports of surplus clean electricity—nuclear, solar, wind and hydro—could have cost Ontario up to $1.25 billion over 21 months. The study states that ...

3. Minister McKenna wrong on Ontario’s coal phase-out

   Environment Minister Catherine McKenna (pictured above) recently reaffirmed the Trudeau government’s commitment to phase-out coal as a power source. In an interview with CBC News, McKenna once again credited the Ontario coal phase-out ...

4. Ontario electricity prices will keep rising, despite cheaper options

   Appeared in the Toronto Sun, November 5, 2017 The Ontario government released an update to its long-term energy plan last week, projecting that the cost of electricity for homes and businesses will keep rising over the next 20 years. Specifically, the ...

5. Wynne government tries (again) to distract Ontarians from electricity woes

   Appeared in the Toronto Sun, October 27, 2017 The Wynne government continues to offer energy cost-reduction programs that are little more than distractions from what the province would actually have to do to bring down sky-high electricity prices. In the ...

6. Ontario’s Fair Hydro Plan—a temporary Band-Aid with high costs

   Appeared in the Toronto Sun, October 22, 2017 A recent report from Ontario’s auditor general slammed the Wynne government’s “needlessly complex” plan to reduce electricity bills for Ontarians. According to the report, the government is keeping the true ...

7. Ontario’s auditor general calls out Wynne government over ‘Fair Hydro Plan’ accounting

   The Office of the Auditor General of Ontario this week released a special report titled “The Fair Hydro Plan: Concerns About Fiscal Transparency, Accountability, and Value for Money.” It’s somewhat dry reading, but a key message comes ...

8. Ontario’s new energy efficiency programs—high cost, little benefit

   Appeared in the Toronto Sun, September 6, 2017 The Wynne government is once again pursuing high-cost energy programs that will yield minimal benefits for Ontarians. This time the government has its sights set on energy efficiency programs. Last week, ...

9. Ontario power users get some relief, but there’s still much more to do

   Appeared in the Toronto Sun, August 18, 2017 According to a recent report, the governments of Ontario and Quebec are negotiating a power agreement that would see some of Quebec’s cheaper hydro power sold into Ontario’s high-priced energy markets. The ...

10. Ontario—how not to centrally plan the power system

    Appeared in the Toronto Sun, Aug 6, 2017 After years of governments mismanaging energy markets in Ontario, new research shows that Ontarians now pay some of the highest electric bills in Canada. The average residential monthly bill for Torontonians last ...