too true

anyone living in Ontario Canada knows what it is like to open an electic bill

You have National Greed too???
Our bill almost doubled in 1 month with out explanations.

You got that right !! Thanks to Daulton and Kathlen, aren't they just swell?

Ain't that the tuth.Just my delivery charge is $150+ a month.Meanwhile I have a friend just a mile away who runs a welding fab shop with 2-3 hired men and his bills are less than mine and we don't have cows anymore so there is no silo unloader,vacuum pump,stable cleaner or cooler running anymore but they tell me there is nothing wrong with our billing.

Just as bad in NS. Emera has the monopoly on power here. This is a company that owns this province every bit as much as Irving owns NB.

So True! For our American friends , the Government of Ontario started wind farms,passed The Green Energy Act which gave them authority to build windfarms anywhere they wanted and rural Ontario residents could do nothing about it! They then got the first windfarms online,but you can't store wind energy so they started selling it. The problem is they are selling it out of Ontario and charging less per kilowatt than it costs to produce. The residents of Ontario make up the difference. We are not paying more for our Hydro, we are paying to the stupidity,the corrupt abundant government of Ontario. Bluewater Massey are you on 21 highway?

Not much different here in the US. Politicians are pretty much the same the world over.

no Michael Solden I'm further east I'm over by Hanover
but i have seen the wind farm over there
there's also one just west of Shelburne
what ticks me off more is this green energy thing they started where they pay a green energy producer 97 cents a kw produced i know it's down to around 40 something now but the first ones got in at 90 somthing and have long running contracts
mean while our cost is around 22 per kwh for household hydro
govt loses money on every kw it produces

Wind turbins galore here where I live in sw.central Ia. On a good day I can count 125 of the things just from my deck. and there are at least another 200 + that I cannt see. The closest one to me is 2 miles as the crow flies. I understand that Mid Am. is the one that has these. Our elect.rates havent been all that bad here lately.

And now for the other side of the story....I have a wind lease, but I do not and will not be getting a turbine on either of my farms. The nearest to me is 900 meters, from a previous project and if a turbine was placed on my farm,(at 550 m away) it was deemed that the combined noise output would exceed the maximum allowable limit of 40 db. The wind turbine company receives 13.5 cents per kw/hr---which, due to the latest increase in hydro --is now LESS than the 14 cents appearing on my bill (hydro one) There are many arguments for and against wind turbines, but realize that ALL major oil companies have and still do receive subsidies from government for various aspects of their operations (exploratory and research to name a few) Also know that the new underground river being constructed at Niagara has costs exceeding 4 Billion---and will not produce one watt of power. The proposed deep ground repository planned at the Bruce power is also expected to costs Billions and will not produce any power, but is needed to clean up nuclears waste. Another fact---this is the first year in 26 that all eight reactors at the Bruce have been on line---why, if we already are exporting power? Does it not concern anyone that the Bruce is the world's largest nuclear installation and as such, every terrorist walking this earth will have a floor plan to it? Also, know that over 11,000 Hydro One employees are on the "sunshine list" making over $100,000 each annually? The CEO's salary is in the millions? Do these not affect your Hydro bill as well??

There are advantages and disadvantages to ALL types of power, but if we wish to secure an efficient resonsible and secure electricity system, we will need ALL types of power---even the power produced by our good old tractors!!

Remember we are still paying a surcharge to reduce debt yet Hydro one can afford to give out grants of $5000.oo for children's playgrounds.
This gets them a nice write up in the papers.