Re: [A-List] Canada: Ontario energy crisis

[bar@xxxxxxxxxxx]

Of course what this right-wing rag fails to state is that before
prvatisaztioneverything was fine, there was a constant return of earnings
in maintaining infrastructure and ensuring supply but that all evaporated
overnight when they sold the production company and went to market rates
and the reqirement to earn higher profits. The result; the predictable
brownouts, blackouts and rising costs for everyone and profits for the
companies. He also fails to mention that the tory govt was forced to back
off the selling of the rest of these publc assets at rockbottom prices was
due to public protest, the same with the price freezes as the private
comapnies had gauranted more or less cheaper prices which never appeared
except at the beginning.

The solution is the renationalizing of these essential assets and letting
the people govern these resources.

Chris

> Ontario seeks way out of energy policy turmoil
> By Bernard Simon in Toronto
> Financial Times: March 7 2006
>
> The province of Ontario, Canada?s industrial heartland, is on the brink
> of an energy crisis, in spite of exhaustive efforts to decide on its