The Council of the Great Lakes Region and its partners have released a report on Ontario’s electricity system that focuses on the province's partnership with Quebec. ...
Category: Energy and the Environment
OEB hikes fee more than 60 per cent to fund service for rural electricity customers
The government announced in September that the RRRP program would be “significantly enhanced” to help rural ratepayers with their bills. ...
Environment ministry altered access to information timelines, privacy commissioner says
Staff appeared to have changed completion dates "without justification" in order to improve the ministry’s compliance statistics. ...
Ontario-Quebec energy deal a ‘win-win-Wynne,” Premier says
Premier Wynne also says Ontario and Quebec officials are discussing the next big thing on the energy file for the two provinces. ...
Province loosens new executive pay rules to attract nuclear experts
The new compensation rules for the broader public sector would result in an “incremental annual cost” of about $6- to $8-million more in pay for about 80 employees, OPG says — or about $75,000 to $100,000 more an executi ...
Environmentalists take endangered species act challenge to Supreme Court
In 2013, the Ministry of Natural Resources and Forestry granted industries an exemption under the Endangered Species Act that environmentalists say weakens legal protections for threatened species and their habitats ...
How Ontario plans to protect its cap-and-trade system from the Trump administration
Environment Minister Glen Murray has some assurances, in writing, that Ontario can count carbon emissions reductions in California as the province's own. ...
Purchase: Electricity prices and holiday wish lists
Columnist Bryne Purchase offers the Liberal government some free advice, not a free lunch, on the electricity file. ...
A third of Ontario’s $1.9B in cap-and-trade cash could come from one place
A spokesperson said that Enbridge and Union, “will be operated separately post close, as each utility is operating under an existing and approved regulatory framework that runs through 2018.” ...
Op-ed: Ontario’s renewable energy future
The Renewable Energy Alliance of Ontario has been formed, with the goal of "organizing the millions of Ontarians who support clean energy." ...