As of Jan. 1, Debt Retirement Charge will disappear from residential customers' hydro bills, as will Ontario Clean Energy Benefit, which gave them a 10-per-cent discount ...
Category: Energy and the Environment
New moose protection regulations draw mixed reviews from hunters
The declining moose population has prompted calls by hunters to increase the bag limit on wolves ...
Union Gas prepares ground for cap-and-trade rate adjustment
The natural gas company has asked the OEB for approval for a deferral account to record the impacts of Ontario's carbon pricing. ...
Ontario says thanks, but no thanks, to more Quebec power next summer
The IESO's latest forecast says Ontario won't be needing 500 megawatts of electricity capacity from Quebec for the summer of 2016. ...
Plans for new 400-series highway in GTA put on hold
An environmental assessment has been suspended for the Brampton area highway while the province reviews whether it's necessary in the context of transit projects, new technology and the need to reduce greenhouse gas emi ...
Op-ed: AG report misses sector-building benefits of Ontario’s purchase of clean power
John Gorman, president and CEO of the Canadian Solar Industries Association, says the province's auditor general overlooked the economic benefits of Ontario's green energy shift ...
Options being weighed over apparent flop of OESP
On news that only 34,000 households out of 500,000 eligible have applied for the Ontario Electricity Support Program, Energy Minister Bob Chiarelli admits "we would have hoped that the take-up would have been larger." ...
OPG head vows Darlington overhaul will be ‘on time and on budget’
'All eyes are on OPG to see if we can deliver' on the refurbishment of the Darlington nuclear plant, the Crown corporation's Jeff Lyash says. ...
Province handed ‘historic opportunity’ to curb urban sprawl, Crombie says
Former Toronto mayor and his advisory panel lay out strategic directions to guide a growing Greater Golden Horseshoe, including more support for agricultural lands ...
Happening: Manitoba to link cap-and-trade system with Ontario and Quebec
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