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Tag Archives: Manitoba Hydro
Conflicted, Inept: Manitoba’s Government and Budget Fails
Given the Province’s growing debt load and seemingly endless stream of annual deficits and tax and fee increases, the prognosis from this observer for the future of the Province is not good. Continue reading
Blair on Thatcher
In 1995 the Labour Government acknowledged the new arc of history by removing the sacred Clause 4 of the Labour Party constitution, which called for “common ownership of the means of production, distribution and exchange.” Continue reading
Posted in Public Enterprise, Role of Government
Tagged Crown Corporations, Manitoba Hydro
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Hydro Ratepayers To Pick Up Another Tab
It is becoming more and more obvious that the government realizes (at least at some level) that it may have wasted hundreds of millions, perhaps a billion or more, on a plan that was conceived before ‘the Utility’s world changed” and is no longer sound (if it ever was). Continue reading
Rome Burns as Nero Fiddles – Hydro before the Court of Appeal
Settling a matter of such significance to ratepayers should not be done behind closed doors, in the end it is the ratepayers that ’carry the can’ for Hydro’s ‘investments and commitments’. Continue reading
Taxation in the Guise of Utility Rate Increases
Hydro has lost its intended focus on meeting Manitoba demand and bringing in electricity at the lowest cost possible for Manitoba ratepayers. The Utility’s development designs, based on overly optimistic forecasts of export demand and maintaining cost pressures on the new build, represent ‘gambling’ with ratepayers’ money. Continue reading
Posted in Energy, Environment, Manitoba, Role of Government, Unsorted
Tagged Manitoba Hydro
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Apprehending a Potential Boondoggle
As matters now stand, if government allows Hydro to ‘go over the cliff” with an inadequately tested commercial gamble and ‘things’ don’t work out as they plan (not much has, recently), while their leadership could walk away and retire (perhaps to a warmer climate), the general population of Manitoba cannot. Continue reading