Rural Ontario’s sky-high hydro rates: Are clean energy projects a factor?
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Rural Ontario’s sky-high hydro rates: Are clean energy projects a factor?
Description
August 4, 2016
In our ongoing investigation into the rising cost of hydro in rural Ontario, Shirlee Engel takes a look at whether the province's push for clean energy, and wind and solar projects, are partially to blame for soaring rates.
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Rural Ontario’s sky-high hydro rates: Are clean energy projects a factor?03:02 | August 4, 2016
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Northwestern Ontario chosen for Canada’s nuclear waste storage site02:34 | November 28, 2024
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‘Someone’s going to get hurt’: Police recordings offer new insight into wrong-way chase on Ontario’s Highway 40102:18 | May 2, 2024
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Rural Ontario’s sky-high hydro rates: Are clean energy projects a factor?03:02 | August 4, 2016
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Rural Ontario’s sky-high hydro rates: Are clean energy projects a factor?
Description
August 4, 2016
In our ongoing investigation into the rising cost of hydro in rural Ontario, Shirlee Engel takes a look at whether the province's push for clean energy, and wind and solar projects, are partially to blame for soaring rates.
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