Drummond ReportEnergizing the Drummond Report

Ontario can reap multi-billion dollar electricity savings: Ontario's electricity bills can be reduced by $1.7 billion to $9.1 billion per year by 2030 by importing water power from Quebec and investing in energy efficiency and natural gas-fired combined heat and power plants instead of continued wasteful spending on nuclear power. Read all about it in OCAA’s new report: Energizing the Drummond Report: How Ontario can reap multi-billion dollar electricity savings.



Let's cut some real waste!Let's cut some real waste

The provincial government's Electricity Sector Review will focus on measures responsible for just over 10% of the average electricity bill while ignoring generation costs that account for 80% of our electricity costs. The review, led by the former head of the Canadian Nuclear Association, will not even consider the government's costly and poorly thought out plan to build and refurbish nuclear units despite the availability of numerous cheaper and safer options. Order or new pamphlet and help the McGuinty government get its priorities straight!

 


Making energy efficiency work for Ontario's economy

How Ontario can create thousands of new jobs, reduce government deficits and grow its economy by embracing energy efficiency

An Energy Efficiency Strategy for OntaroOur report looks at how five key actions can deliver enormous finanacial benefits for Ontario while also helping our climate and our environment.

Read the Executive Summary

Read the full report

Read the accompanying analysis of the economic impact of increased energy efficiency produced by the Centre for Spatial Economics, one of Ontario's top economic forecasters.

Conservation vs. New Supply factsheet: This factsheet summarizes the Ontario Power Authority's spending on new supply sources compared to its spending on efficiency and conservation methods.

 


A new government, a fresh agenda

Six Point Plan
Lower Energy Bills and a Strong Economy: The OCAA's six point plan for a sustainable energy future for Ontario


Cost comparison of electricity supply options for Ontario


The case for phasing our nuclear power

OCAA Chair Jack Gibbons on how Ontario can phase out nuclear power:

 

 

Darlington Re-Build Could Cost $21-35 BillionDarlington Re-Build Could Cost $21 to $35 Billion

OPG is seeking permission from the Ontario Energy Board to raise its rates commencing March 2011 to start paying for the Darlington Re-Build project. According to OPG, its proposal to extend the operating life of Darlington by 30 years will cost $8.5 to $14 billion.  However, as this OCAA report notes, every single nuclear project in Ontario’s history has gone over budget and the actual costs of Ontario’s nuclear projects have been 2.5 times greater than the original cost estimates.

Read the English report  |  Read the press release


Powerful Options: A review of Ontario's options for replacing nuclear powerPowerful Options: A review of Ontario’s options for replacing aging nuclear plants

This new report discusses how hydro-electricity imports from Quebec and the development of the Lower Churchill Falls Project in Labrador can replace Ontario’s aging nuclear. In fact, it finds that Ontario has a number of viable options for replacing nuclear that are available now at a lower cost than building new nuclear reactors.

Read the report  |  Read the press release


Ontario's nuclear debtOntario's nuclear debt

Billions still owing on debt racked up by old Ontario Hydro on costly nuclear projects

Read the factsheet and find out just how much you owe and how we can stop it from happening again.




Coal is costing us the air we breathe!

Ontario now has a significant surplus of coal-free electricity. We do not need to wait until December 2014 to finish the coal phase out.

Finishing the coal-phaseoutOntario’s coal-free generation capacity is forecast to be 36% greater than our peak demand for electricity this summer.  As a consequence, we no longer need our dirty coal plants to keep the lights on in Ontario or to ensure a reliable electricity supply.

 

Meanwhile, Ontario Power Generation has been paid close to a billion dollars to keep unneeded coal plants open. Send a letter to Premier Dalton McGuinty asking him to shutdown unnecessary coal units today!

Ontario can phase out coal NOW!



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Higher profits and lower bills: A new electricity strategy for QuebecHigher Profits and Lower Bills: A New Electricity Strategy for Hydro Quebec

Hydro Quebec’s profits will fall by 24% and its rates will rise by 8% according to this new report released by Equiterre and the Ontario Clean Air Alliance (OCAA). Having developed all of the province’s low-cost hydro-electric resources, Hydro Quebec can no longer increase its profits and lower its rates by building new low-cost hydro facilities.

Read the report | En francais

 

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