Proof to my arguments
If anybody knows me from the boards, you'll know I don't make blanket statements that cannot be backed up. So here. If any of the fellow Canadians were clued in enough or cared enough about your basic crown corporations and basic utility services, you'd realize that 1) Ontario Hydro is the biggest electrical utility in North America and 2) Every country from the U.S. to Germany to France has shown great interest in acquiring it...yes acquiring it meaning full ownership, sanctioned by Jean Cretien and Mike Harris.
[L]http://www.mirror.org/people/rhea.east/ohprivat.html[/L]
Currently, Ontario Hydro doesn't exist. It consists of Ontario Power Generation and another organization (can't remember the name off the top of my head, but they do the "distribution" of the electricity).
So, for all of those who think that privatization was so great, that it would lower prices, why is my electrical bill going up after the government said it would go down?
Here's some other useful links. One is from my university paper, so it is from a leftists source but it reports about lectures done by economics profs and such, so I thought it was worth mentioning.
[L]http://www.campuslife.utoronto.ca/groups/varsity/archives/117/jan21/feature/Hydro.html[/L]
<< Many assume the introduction of private ownership within our utility system will drive rates down. But John Murphy, president of the Power Workers' Union, which represents 15,000 of the 21,000 workers at Ontario Hydro, uses the example of the United States to argue that ratepayers would not be better served by a privately-owned utility. He says that in the U. S., where there are both public and private utilities, citizens pay about one-third more for private service >>
[L]http://www.thestar.com/back_issues/ED20001025/money/20001025BUS08_FI-ROSEMAN.html[/L]
A good article on why locking into a contract with the new private utilities is bad because...<gasp> the prices go up quite readily!
[L]http://www.thestar.com/back_issues/ED20000712/money/20000712BUS01_FI-NUKE12.html[/L]
The British "lease" the Bruce Nuclear Facility. They will get 95% ownership...any person should understand that as long as you have 51% owernship, you have control of pretty much all the decisions.
Why are we selling such high-maintenance nuclear power plants to foreign interests who have no interest in preserving the safety of Ontarians? Towards the end of their lease, why should they bother maintaining the plants at the level they should be? Will they help to clean up after an accident? I think not. Those Candu reactors are gaining in age and will need much more maintenance than before.
[L]http://www.newswire.ca/releases/February2000/16/c4665.html[/L]
Longer power outages due to deregulation
I could get more reference material...just let me know.
-GL
If anybody knows me from the boards, you'll know I don't make blanket statements that cannot be backed up. So here. If any of the fellow Canadians were clued in enough or cared enough about your basic crown corporations and basic utility services, you'd realize that 1) Ontario Hydro is the biggest electrical utility in North America and 2) Every country from the U.S. to Germany to France has shown great interest in acquiring it...yes acquiring it meaning full ownership, sanctioned by Jean Cretien and Mike Harris.
[L]http://www.mirror.org/people/rhea.east/ohprivat.html[/L]
Currently, Ontario Hydro doesn't exist. It consists of Ontario Power Generation and another organization (can't remember the name off the top of my head, but they do the "distribution" of the electricity).
So, for all of those who think that privatization was so great, that it would lower prices, why is my electrical bill going up after the government said it would go down?
Here's some other useful links. One is from my university paper, so it is from a leftists source but it reports about lectures done by economics profs and such, so I thought it was worth mentioning.
[L]http://www.campuslife.utoronto.ca/groups/varsity/archives/117/jan21/feature/Hydro.html[/L]
<< Many assume the introduction of private ownership within our utility system will drive rates down. But John Murphy, president of the Power Workers' Union, which represents 15,000 of the 21,000 workers at Ontario Hydro, uses the example of the United States to argue that ratepayers would not be better served by a privately-owned utility. He says that in the U. S., where there are both public and private utilities, citizens pay about one-third more for private service >>
[L]http://www.thestar.com/back_issues/ED20001025/money/20001025BUS08_FI-ROSEMAN.html[/L]
A good article on why locking into a contract with the new private utilities is bad because...<gasp> the prices go up quite readily!
[L]http://www.thestar.com/back_issues/ED20000712/money/20000712BUS01_FI-NUKE12.html[/L]
The British "lease" the Bruce Nuclear Facility. They will get 95% ownership...any person should understand that as long as you have 51% owernship, you have control of pretty much all the decisions.
Why are we selling such high-maintenance nuclear power plants to foreign interests who have no interest in preserving the safety of Ontarians? Towards the end of their lease, why should they bother maintaining the plants at the level they should be? Will they help to clean up after an accident? I think not. Those Candu reactors are gaining in age and will need much more maintenance than before.
[L]http://www.newswire.ca/releases/February2000/16/c4665.html[/L]
Longer power outages due to deregulation
I could get more reference material...just let me know.
-GL
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