Ross McKitrick and Tom Adams have authored What Goes Up…Ontario’s Soaring Electricity Prices and How to Get Them Down for The Fraser Institute. It purports to be an analysis of the effect government contracts with electricity producers have had on Ontario’s power bills. According to McKitrick and Adams, a large portion of the
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The Sir Robert Bond Papers: Nalcor and the Eff In Way #nlpoli
Over at Uncle Gnarley, JM’s at it again with the first of a two-parter on Nalcor and its problems with forecasting for Muskrat Falls. Nalcor assumed that they would get 830 megawatts of electricity out of Muskrat Falls in the winter months when demand is highest. That’s the number they
Continue readingBigCityLib Strikes Back: Tom Adams, Jack Mintz, and Me On The Price Of Wind In Ontario
Tom Adams gets a lot of play as an expert on Ontario’s energy system. The fact that he is or was once associated with Lawrence Solomon’s group Energy Probe does not seem to put as many people off as I think it should. For example, the well-known economist Dr. Jack Mintz has a number
Continue readingBigCityLib Strikes Back: Tim Hudak’s Energy Policy, Such As It Is
Tom Adams, who occasionally achieves sanity when writing about energy issues, gets about half-way there in his piece yesterday, in particular when he touches on the pumped-storage project up in Marmora: [PCPO MPP Todd ] Smith has …hounded the Minister of Energy over why he has “delayed in arriving at
Continue readingBigCityLib Strikes Back: Tom Adams In Sun: Mostly Sane
There are bits of it I don’t agree with. For instance, any fair reading of Ontario history would show that the province’s dalliance with gas power predates the Green Energy Act, and wasn’t a conspiracy to cover-up (or “backstop”) the poor performance of its wind farms. But most of it
Continue readingThe Sir Robert Bond Papers: Muskrat Three-some #nlpoli
Here are some treats to keep you up with the latest developments on the Muskrat falls front. For starters, CBC’s Anthony Germain interviewed Tom Adams on Thursday about Adams’ contention that the Muskrat Falls project will add a significant debt load on the province. It’s the third audio file from
Continue readingThe Sir Robert Bond Papers: Living after them #nlpoli
The evil that men do lives after them; the good is oft interred with their bones. William Shakespeare, Julius Caesar In his latest post on Muskrat Falls, energy analyst Tom Adams argues that the provincial government wants to finance Muskrat Falls in a way that shifts the costs and the
Continue readingThe Sir Robert Bond Papers: Nova Scotia would get Churchill Falls power for free #nlpoli
If you’ve been following the ongoing Muskrat Falls saga, you will recall that energy analyst Tom Adams raised some questions a couple of months ago about whether or not Muskrat Falls could actually produce the power Nalcor and the provincial government claimed. The problem basically came down to this: January
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