Albertans are getting hammered this summer by high electricity prices – just one of the impacts of the chaotic wide-open Alberta electricity market that was Conservative premier Ralph Klein’s gift to the province at the turn of the century. Back in 2000, as readers with long memories may recall, we
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Alberta Politics: Citing soaring prices, but with eye to shielding retailers’ profits, UCP stops collecting 13-cent-per-litre provincial fuel tax
If the United Conservative Party Government was serious about protecting Albertans from soaring fuel prices, it could move to temporarily control the retail price of gasoline and diesel fuel. Big fuel retailers would scream bloody murder, and market fundamentalist think tanks would suffer the vapours, but there wouldn’t be much
Continue readingThe Sir Robert Bond Papers: Electricity prices, risk, and what the editors didn’t say #nlpoli
Okay. What Muskrat Falls will do to electricity prices is not funny. Never was. But what *is* extremely funny are columns like Russell Wangersky’s latest hand-wringer about the most recent round of electricity rates hikes. Remember when we were told that Muskrat Falls was needed to stabilise electricity rates? Now,
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Jim Feehan’s proposal to change the way we price electricity in the province got some media attention -over the past 24 hours. Feehan believes that we should set the base price of electricity in this province on the best export price rather than the current proposal to have electricity from
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Unions representing Hydro-Quebec employees are oppose to a plan to install so-called smart meters in Quebec homes. According to the Montreal Gazette: One week before the Régie de l’énergie is to begin hearings on the controversial venture, the Syndicate des employés de techniques professionnels et de bureau d’Hydro-Québec denounced the
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In Quebec, Arcelor Mittal mines is looking to hang onto its industrial discount electricity rate of 4.5 cents per kilowatt hour even though the company didn’t delivered on its commitment to build a second pellet plant in the province. The Parti Quebecois wants to make sure that the company processes
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