According to figures obtained by Global…
By the end of next year Hydro One’s urban customers who use the most power will see distribution rates go down as much as 19 per cent, making their bills up to 4 per cent lower. Hydro One is Ontario’s largest energy utility.
But customers living in the lowest density rural areas, who use the least amount of power, will be hit hardest, with distribution soaring by as much as 25 per cent. The increase will mean total hydro bills will be up to 11.5 per cent higher by 2017.
Enjoy those renewables, comrades.
A friend of mine has a small place in Northern Ontario. It is new construction and well insulated. His power bill last January – when the cabin was vacant and thermostat set for 13C – was $600. The majority of that was “distribution fees”. His cabin is 200 metres from the power generation plant.
… and my PG&E rates here in N.CA have skyrocketed this summer for similar idiotic reasons. The population is letting government and quasi-governmental agencies bend us all over and ream us up the …
This makes perfect sense. Urban rates go down; rural rates skyrocket. What were the polling results in the last election? Who voted Liberal and who did not? This is exactly what the new rate scheme boils down to: pandering to their base, giving the cold shoulder – literally – to those who aren’t likely to change their vote.
And watch how the Alberta NDP merrily skips down the same road. This is so sad it is actually hilarious.
NDP says Alberta will have 30 per cent renewable power by 2030 but questions loom
The government’s website says that $3.4 billion out of the nearly $10 billion expected to be collected from the incoming broad-based carbon tax over the next five years will go toward “large scale renewable energy, bioenergy and technology.”
Phillips, however, would not put a price tag on how much will go toward subsidies for renewables.
And while there will be an auction system, how it will function is still being developed by the Alberta Electrical System Operator (AESO), which will oversee the program.
“There are many different ways to structure renewable procurement,” said Phillips.
“We are currently examining how that looks in Alberta so that we get the least-cost procurement. What we know about renewables is they lower the price for consumers.”
Incredible how we are bent on reaching 3rd world status in the name of junk science with junk electricity to solve a non existing problem.
http://nation.foxnews.com/2015/08/10/climate-change-hoax-costs-us-4-billion-day
FredR correct:
Rural counties support 99& of the hated Industrial wind plants, forced on them by Wynne and Liberal friends, and now they must shoulder higher rates as well.
McGuinty’s last election saw 1 purely rural seat go Liberal, Wynne improved on that by 1, I believe. Ont really is already 2 distinct societies, created by a decade of Liberal machinations.
Poor Patrick Brown, he is hopeless outmatched but these creeps.
As Trump said, he’s willing to go as low as it takes. That is someone who is willing to win.
Just wondering why someone would build a summer vacation home 200 metres from a power plant.
You can get back up generators with automatic transfer switches that run off natural gas. We might get to the point where it is more economical to run one of those most of the time. Have a battery bank that you can charge up to run over night to keep the alarm clock and lights running and the generator could kick in at times of high demand. In normal times this would be insane, but it would be interesting to see the numbers on it.
Minuteman, I was thinking the exact same thing. The new tesla powerwall might be an option. Here in SK. our rates have climbed to .1325 per kw/h. It is becoming very expensive to run stuff here. I am going to NG stove and looking at the dryer as well. NG will be cheap or at least cheaper in the long run!
So, for instance, people living in Toronto will pay less than people living in Meaford.
It’s sheer coincidence their entire voting base resides in GTO eh?
A rural power plant likely means a small Lake created by a dam
So 60,000 disconnected isn’t a crisis but a handful of attention seeking safe space contaminating males wanting unrestricted access to women’s toilets is Harm-Ageddon? Looks like the Ontarian individuals disconnected fall into the socialist deplorable category. Next election vote in a party that promises to bring in recall laws as the first order of business.
Kenji, their office workers are really struggling, and working hard, they need those $30/hr paycheques, cuz, they vote LIEberal.
Those redneck Deplorable hicks that live in the back 40 are lucky they have any power at all.
/sarc
Homophobia!!
Urban rates go down while rural rates skyrocket. Get everyone into the cities to be controlled like little lab rats. This is why I think alternative energy is only for individuals and not for industry. Only individuals can manage producing their own power enough to still have what you need to live without resorting to living like it’s 1850.
What you should strive for is to leave the city and live rural while supplying your own power through solar, hydro, wind as available. No one can tell you when you can use power, how much power, or what you will pay for it if you generate your own. Live free outside of the cities.
If you go off the grid for power then they will raise your property taxes. They want your money and will find other ways to take it
But Wynne is promising 100,000 new daycare spaces and free tuition for students in low income families!
But Wynne is promising 100,000 new daycare spaces and free tuition for students in low income families!
And these are the same asshats that want us to get off petroleum, natural gas and heat our home electrically and drive electric cars? It’s like making you buy your own bullet for your execution but slower and more painful.
Northern Ontario is like Saskatchewan, miles and miles of nothingness between civilization and all of it pretty cold in a Canadian winter. So where are we going to plug in our toaster-on-wheels?
These assholes disgust me. At least the NDP admit they are socialists.
What amazes me is not that the lefty-earth muffins are doing this or that Wynne is protecting her power base ….. but that the left is being criticized by the CBC. Heads are going to have to roll for okaying this piece of blasphemy.
This is what Liberal voters wanted. If they didn’t want it, they would not have voted Liberal repeatedly.
This was posted on SDA awhile ago;
http://www.firstmonday.ca/articles/sunripe-rejects-buyout-ottawa-grocery-chain-%E2%80%9Cthey-aren%E2%80%99t-us%E2%80%9D-says-willemsen
Yup!! We got our old Canada back!
Yeah, part of the thread point is that Wynne is sticking it to the people, rural folks, who DIDN’T vote Liberal.
They’re the ones who get the shaft while the urban folks who voted Liberal get the buckshee.
Where do the vismins live? The cities. Where do the Homos live? The cities. Where do the Muzzies live? The cities.
Who gets shafted? The rural country folk who voted PC.(closest thing Ontarians have to conservatives)
Venezuela politics, Canada style. Same is happening in Alberta.
Long row to hoe, and if you ain’t a Ho, you don’t even get a row.
Why don’t you a-holes STFU … it’s clearly for your own good.
so many stupid people. one has to be very stupid to vote for the policies that we have been subjected to. stupid is the word.
And in the meantime, Waldo Brown is downtown laughin’ and scratchin’ with all the minorities.
Shut up, peasants and pay so folks like Madeline Ashby, who hasn’t had a clue in twenty years, can feel better about themselves.
http://ottawacitizen.com/opinion/columnists/ashby-ontario-suck-it-up-we-need-greener-energy
Shut up peasants and pay, so folks like Madeline Ashby, who hasn’t had a clue in twenty years, can feel better about herself
http://ottawacitizen.com/opinion/columnists/ashby-ontario-suck-it-up-we-need-greener-energy
Wynne’s policies make sense if you think of them as an angry lesbian’s revenge fantasy brought to life. She wants to punish everyeone who’s ever made her feel bad about herself. Thus her attack on families throught hard-core and fetish sex ed, her attack on the middle class through just about everything, her direct attack on rural communities through forced wind farm development and now deliberately skewed hydro rates.
Not sure how you could ever measure this, but it would be interesting to know if homosexuals actually pay hydro bills. Assuming that most home-owning homosexuals live in urban centres and most live in fashionable condos where their utilities are an unseen part of their condo fees, I am going to guess that huge numbers of dedicated-via-identity-politics Wynne voters do not actually ever see a detailed electricity bill.
Grossly over-simplified assumptions there, but I mean, come on — how can anyone NOT be outraged over Wynne’s direct attack on our homes? There must be huge numbers of her supporters who simply are not aware of what she’s done to the price of electricity. How does that happen?
“Madeline Ashby is a strategic foresight consultant and novelist living in Toronto”.
What a surprise, she probably votes Liberal as well. An uninformed, misleading, stupid column insulting to all country citizens. Even comments from the Citizen are almost all negative, notice the one which states, correctly. that Ont Society of Engineers found wind plants raise Co2 emissions in the long term.
Ottawa has dozens of acres of green land, ideally situated for wind turbine development; the power would be generated where is would be consumed. The same goes for Toronto. To suggest such development would raise an outcry of urban opposition, including from people like Ashby. No the wind plants absolutely must be built in rural communities, under the misnomer of “Wind Farms”.This is another Orwellian definition green zealots have used to make industrial development more palatable.
Ashby should stick to her novels rather than writing such fiction disguised as commentary.
This is an orchestrated fraud on the ratepayers of Canada. There should be charges applied and these parasites should be relieved of all their profiteering and serve serious time. Will the opposition commit to charges?