News and issues related to energy in Canada with a CCRE connection

Glen Wright and Karen Taylor
Late in April, in conjunction with U.S. President Joe Biden’s Leaders Summit on Climate, the Canadian government announced that Canada’s new Green House Gas (GHG) reduction target under the Paris Agreement would be 40 to 45 per cent below 2005 levels by 2030.

Glen Wright and Karen Taylor
Late in April, in conjunction with U.S. President Joe Biden’s Leaders Summit on Climate, the Canadian government announced that Canada’s new Green House Gas (GHG) reduction target under the Paris Agreement would be 40 to 45 per cent below 2005 levels by 2030. The previous target was 30 per cent.

Glen Wright and Karen Taylor
Late in April, in conjunction with U.S. President Joe Biden’s Leaders Summit on Climate, the Canadian Government announced that Canada’s new Green House Gas (GHG) reduction target under the Paris Agreement would be 40 to 45 per cent below 2005 levels by 2030.

Glen Wright and Karen Taylor
Late in April, in conjunction with US President Joe Biden’s Leaders Summit on Climate, the Canadian Government announced that Canada’s new Green House Gas (GHG) reduction target under the Paris Agreement would be 40 to 45% below 2005 levels by 2030.

Jatin Nathwani
By sticking a red-hot knife into the performance of her province’s electricity sector, Ontario Auditor-General Bonnie Lysyk has whipped up a tsunami of outrage.

Greg Baden, Special to Financial Post
Ontario electricity consumers pay more for their own electricity than consumers in adjacent states who import it. The difference is as much as $60 per megawatt-hour – the amount of electricity used monthly in a typical household.

Jan Carr, Globe and Mail
Re In Ontario, Electricity Bills Are Reason To Weep (Sept. 12): Konrad Yakabuski has accurately described the mess Ontario’s electricity sector is in and the ever‐higher prices that result.

Jan Carr, Special to Financial Post
Decisions to relocate two Ontario electricity generating stations from the Toronto suburbs of Mississauga and Oakville to locations further afield in Sarnia and Lennox were driven by partisan political attempts to win at the polls.

Jan Carr, Special to Financial Post
Beyond Premier Dalton McGuinty’s resignation and the partisan jousting that puts the public cost of relocating two Ontario generating stations as high as $1.4-billion lies both irony and a serious systemic problem.

Jatin Nathwani
A powerful argument exists for Canada to play a pivotal role in reducing the carbon burden of the North American economy through enhanced electricity trade. And yet, before you can count to three, paralysis settles in.