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TORONTO — Ontario residents can brace for another hike in electricity bills on Jan. 1. The increase comes on the heels of a jump just two months ago, and hydro bills will rise again after the Liberals introduce a cap-and-trade plan in the spring.
Under the Liberal government, electricity prices in Ontario soared from a flat 4.7 cents a kilowatt hour in 2004, to the Nov. 1, 2015 rate of 17.5 cents a kwh at peak times, increases that total almost 375 per cent. There are various changes taking effect in the new year that will have an impact on electricity bills.
Energy sector analyst Tom Adams calls it “a multi-dimensional, inter-temporal shell game” of power rates. There are few details known about the Liberal’s cap-and-trade plan to fight climate change, but it is expected to push up prices for many consumer goods, including electricity.
“In terms of cap and trade, the cost of doing nothing is huge,” Premier Kathleen Wynne said in a year-end interview with The Canadian Press. “We don’t have a choice as a globe.”
The Liberals have started the process of selling up to 60 per cent of Hydro One, which the opposition parties warn will also drive up electricity rates, but the government says rates will still be set by the Ontario Energy Board. “There’s no doubt about it, that we think the sale is going to have a negative impact on the electricity bill,” said Progressive Conservative energy critic John Yakabuski. Read article
We the people have toi get her out of office How does that process begin
Does anyone know anyone who voted leiberal?
Ecofiscal Commission Canada
Commissioners include:
Stewart Elgie, A founder of Sierra Legal and now Ecojustice Canada
Paul Lanoie, INET Expert and CIGI-INET grant
Nancy Olewiler, INET Expert and CIGI-INET grant
Advisory Board includes:
Paul Martin, INET Expert
Michael Harcourt, Appointed to NRTEE and Chair-CEO QUEST Canada
http://www.ecofiscal.ca/the-commission/the-people-behind-the-commission
Commission advocates a carbon tax and/or cap-and-trade for Ontario/Canada
INET/Institute for New Economic Thinking, New York
Founded by Jim Balsillie, William Janeway and George Soros
Paul Martin, INET Expert
http://www.ineteconomics.org/community/experts/pmartin
BCBUSINESS, Dec.5, 2011
‘Ecojustice Canada’s Environmental Crusade’
Stewart Elgie
http://www.bcbusiness.ca/careers/ecojustice-canadas-environmental-crusade
QUEST Canada
Michael Harcourt, Chair. & CEO
Dr. Vicky Sharpe is on the Board of QUEST
http://www.questcanada.org/chair-ceo
CIGI – INET, January 2011
$25 million, CDN, over five years to support CIGI-INET joint activities.
CIGI – INET Bios
George Soros, INET, New York
Jim Balsillie, CIGI, Waterloo
http://www.cigionline.org/inet/bios
Forbes, Jan.28, 2011 Report from Davos, Switzerland
‘Blackberry Billionaire Outspoken at Davos’
On the INET-CIGI Partnership:
“-CIGI- with its focus on global governance and INET with its focus on rethinking our economic models. It’s a perfect fit.”
http://www.forbes.com/sites/luisakroll/2011/01/28/blackberry-billionaire-outspoken-at-davos
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INET/Institute for New Economic Thinking, New York City
INET Expert:
Barry Sookman, Senior Partner, McCarthy Tetrault
http://www.ineteconomics.org/community/experts/bsookman
Calgary Herald, Dec.23, 2015
Year-end interview on oil and energy issues.
http://calgaryherald.com/storyline/how-leaving-oil-in-the-ground-became-a-mainstream-idea-that-could-blow-up-on-trudeau
Involves the agreement at COP 21
‘International Open Letter Calls For Moratorium On New Coal Mines’, Nov.27, 2015
Also published in the “New Science” and the “Guardian”, U.K.
Signatories include:
James Hansen
Hans Joachim Schellnhuber, Club of Rome
David Suzuki, Canada
Peter Victor, Club of Rome and Prof. at York U.
William Becker, Colorado State U./NEE
And others
http://www.nonewcoalmines.org.au/international_open_letter
Oil and now coal to be shut down.
The Trudeau Foundation Conference, Toronto Nov.20-22, 2014
‘Weathering Change Pathways To Sustainability In Canada’
Checkout the speakers, sponsors and program events at: http://www.trudeaufoundation.ca/2014conference
Another “groupee” gathering of those promoting change, sustainability, etc.