The move comes weeks after Ontario PC Party Leader Doug Ford said he would fire the CEO and board of directors at the partially privatized utility if his party is elected on June 7. Continue reading
Glenn Thibeault says concerns raised by Auditor General Bonnie Lysyk during testimony before a legislative committee aren’t new and the practices being used by the Independent Electricity System Operator are common in other jurisdictions and endorsed by major auditing firms. Continue reading
Hydro One wanted to be able to raise its transmission rates by 4.8 per cent in 2018. Continue reading
The Liberal government has tapped Richard Dicerni, a former head of Ontario Power Generation, to lead a year-long review of the Ontario Energy Board. Continue reading
Earlier this year, one company complained that the government was politicizing utility bills. Continue reading
Gilles Bisson will introduce a bill next week that would allow the Ontario Energy Board to control both the retail price and wholesale mark-up of petroleum products in the province. Continue reading
The government says the Fair Hydro Plan has variables programmed in it to allow for changes in energy consumption and prices, but the debt will still remain and getting consumers to pay it will be tough if there are other better cheaper options. Continue reading
Sorbara and Lougheed were accused of offering Liberal candidate hopeful Andrew Olivier a position to step down for Wynne’s preferred candidate (now Energy Minister Glenn Thibeault) in a 2015 Sudbury byelection. Continue reading
Ontarians have been given the true costs of Kathleen Wynne’s Green Energy Act refinance (the Fair Energy Act) and it is as ugly as experts predicted many years ago. Continue reading
A set of radio ads this year have told listeners that people would receive an average of 25 per cent off their hydro bills this summer and rate increases are being held to inflation for four years. Continue reading