Over the past months the Ford government has taken two good steps to avoid future electricity price increases in Ontario, by:<\/p>\n
This ensures that the government will not make new commitments for unneeded high-priced power.<\/p>\n
But as we all know,\u00a0Ontario’s electricity prices are already too high<\/a>, and experts have advised that the government can and should take further action.<\/p>\n For example, this Toronto Sun article<\/a> (local copy here<\/a>) notes that the Ford government needs to continue “curtailing the damage of some of the worst Liberal policies”<\/em> and address “unnecessarily high electricity costs”<\/em>. The article cites this Fraser Institute report<\/a>\u00a0 and reports of these cancellations that “while these moves will prevent some future electricity price increases, they would not actually undo the past price increases.”<\/em><\/p>\n The Fraser Institute Report advises the government should <\/span>“cancel funding commitments\u00a0under the FIT contracts”<\/em> and another step would be\u00a0<\/span>“reducing payments to the relatively new small-scale hydroelectric plants”<\/em>.<\/span><\/p>\n The Ford government has the power and justification to fulfill their election promises, we await their taking action to do so.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Over the past months the Ford government has taken two good steps to avoid future electricity price increases in Ontario, by: Cancelling 758 proposed renewable energy projects. Cancelling the Green Energy Act. This ensures that the government will not make new commitments for unneeded high-priced power. But as we all know,\u00a0Ontario’s electricity prices are already […]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9097","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-background","category-3-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/savethebalafalls.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9097","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/savethebalafalls.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/savethebalafalls.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/savethebalafalls.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/savethebalafalls.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9097"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/savethebalafalls.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9097\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9102,"href":"https:\/\/savethebalafalls.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9097\/revisions\/9102"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/savethebalafalls.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9097"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/savethebalafalls.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9097"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/savethebalafalls.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9097"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}