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Parker Gallant: OPG’s creative accounting
(September 1, 2011) Ontario Power Generation recently released its 2nd Quarter results. On the surface all seems well with OPG — it announced an after tax (Payments in Lieu of taxes) profit for the...
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Parker Gallant: The forgotten directive
(September 12, 2011) Ontario’s Feed-in-Tariff (FIT) programs, designed to make Ontario a world leader in renewable energy, was implemented through two dozen or so government directives that gave...
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Ontario’s Power Trip: The $4000 electricity bill
(October 5, 2011) Energy Probe directors Glenn Fox and Parker Gallant, writing in the Financial Post, discuss their new study of Ontario’s renewable energy policy. Their projection? Electricity rates...
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Ontario Energy Prices: Frankly Bogus
(October 19, 2011) Parker Gallant responds to Minister Brad Duguid: it’s the government’s claims that are “bogus”. Parker Gallant Omitted Costs, Inflated Benefits, a study I co-authored with Glenn Fox...
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Ontario ratepayers subsidize taxpayers
(November 15, 2011) Ontario ratepayers are helping to hold down municipal taxes and the provincial debt, writes Energy Probe director Parker Gallant. Parker Gallant The Ontario Energy Board (OEB)...
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Parker Gallant: Auditor General of Ontario Missed Exaggerated Coal Generation...
The Auditor General of Ontario’s report of December 5 dealing with “Renewable Energy Initiatives” highlighted wasted spending commitments of billions of dollars that will fall on the backs of the...
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Parker Gallant: The Ontario Power Authority – helping to create the rural...
(February 24, 2012) Where you live in Ontario will have a bearing on what constitutes a “green” energy project by the Ontario Power Authority (OPA) under their program(s) and what they will pay per...
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Another wind protest
(April 3, 2012) Energy Probe’s Lawrence Solomon presented at the third annual Ontario Feed-In Tariff Forum on wind turbine development. By John Divinski, Bayshore Broadcasting There could be a big...
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Listen to Energy Probe on Green Majority
(August 21, 2012) Energy Probe’s Director of Research, Norman Rubin, joined a roundtable on nuclear energy in Canada hosted by the environmental news radio program ‘Green Majority’ (CIUT FM 89.5),...
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The big Ontario power-plant question
(Dec. 3, 2012) Will the Liberals ever explain their botched site-selection process? By Andy Frame for the Hamilton Spectator, published on Dec. 3, 2012 In early 2013, the Liberal party of Ontario will...
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Listen to Energy Probe’s Norm Rubin on CBC Radio
(August 14, 2013) The 2003 Blackout ten years after — what have we learned from that experience and are we better off now? Energy Probe’s Norman Rubin featured in three media interviews on August 14,...
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Parker Gallant and Scott Luft: Michigan and New York’s best friend–Ontario
(September 18, 2013) The press releases flowing from the Ministry of Energy’s offices have been many over the past several years and claim a variety of wonderful things despite the mundane attributes...
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Parker Gallant: Duping the public
(September 21, 2013) Three years ago (on November 9, 2010) “confidential” documents were obtained by the Ontario PC Party and reported on by the Toronto Star. The documents disclosed a plan to...
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Parker Gallant: Ontario’s Ministry of Energy creates Canada’s biggest Ponzi...
(October 1, 2013) The press release on September 24, 2013, from the Attorney General’s (AG) office was headlined: “Attorney General recovers $17 million for Victims of Ponzi Scheme” and went on to...
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Parker Gallant: Ontario’s environmental commissioner, serving the public or...
(October 14, 2013) On October 10, 2013, Ontario Environmental Commissioner Gord Miller released his 194-page annual report titled, “Serving the Public,” and backed it up with a “supplement” that ran to...
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Parker Gallant: Wynne Government picks ratepayers pockets for wind turbine...
(November 16, 2013) While Premier Wynne was out jogging in the countryside – sans any turbines in the background – for the recently released Liberal promo, many of us ratepayers were having our pockets...
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Parker Gallant: Pumped storage equals pumped energy prices
(November 18, 2013) As Hans and Franz of SNL fame used to say, “we want to pump you up,” and that appears to be what Northland Power Inc. want to do with a water-filled abandoned iron ore mine in...
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Lawrence Solomon: A billion dollars full of nuclear waste
(November 21, 2013) The Deep Geologic Repository is a make-work project. By Lawrence Solomon for the National Post, published on November 21, 2013 Lawrence Solomon: “For many decades now, taxpayers...
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Parker Gallant: Thunder Bay, gored with the Wynne
(November 24, 2013) Seen by the Liberals and Environmental Defence (ED) as a breath taking moment for Ontario, the high priest of Global Warming, Al Gore arrived in Toronto to heap praise on the...
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Parker Gallant: Environmental Defence blame others for their CRA problems
(February 9, 2014) The CBC in an news item February 6, 2014, announced that the Canadian Revenue Agency (CRA) had launched an “audit” of some of Canada’s well known environmental charities and included...
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