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	Hydro-Electric Power Commission of Ontario - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Hydro-Electric Power Commission of Ontario was established in 1906 by the provincial Power Commission Act to build transmission lines to supply municipal utilities with electricity generated by private companies already operating at Niagara Falls.
		Ontario Hydro's Plan to Serve Customers' Electricity Needs." with different scenarios attempting to solve the need for additional facilities to replace aging electricity generation stations.
		In April 1999, Ontario Hydro was re-organized into three companies: Ontario Power Generation, the Ontario Hydro Services Company (later renamed Hydro One), and the Independent Electricity Market Operator (later renamed the Independent Electricity System Operator).
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Ontario_Hydro (484 words)

	Ontario - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Ontario is the most populous and second-largest in area of Canada's ten provinces.
		Ontario is bounded on the north by Hudson Bay and James Bay, on the east by Quebec, on the west by Manitoba, and on the south by the American states of Minnesota, Michigan, Ohio, Pennsylvania and New York.
		Ontario's right to Northwestern Ontario was determined by the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council in 1884 and confirmed by the Canada (Ontario Boundary) Act, 1889 of the Parliament of the United Kingdom.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Ontario (2320 words)

	Dableh v. Ontario Hydro (C.A.) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		The appellant was employed by Ontario Hydro when he obtained a patent for an invention relating to a method for repositioning misaligned spacers in a nuclear reactor using a varying electric current to achieve electromagnetic force.
		Pursuant to Ontario Hydro's "patent policy" at the time the patent issued, ownership of a patented invention developed in the course of employment by an employee is held by that employee.
		Ontario Hydro (hereinafter the respondent), however, did not initiate a cross-appeal with respect to the Trial Judge's finding that it is estopped from challenging the validity of the Dableh patent.
	reports.fja.gc.ca /fc/1996/pub/v3/1996fca0050.html (10387 words)

	Earth Council: Papers and Speeches (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Ontario Hydro is, after all, the biggest single corporate enterprise in Ontario and one of the largest in the country.
		Ontario Hydro's role and its history are inseparable from that of the growth of Ontario and it has a vitally important role to play now in re-energizing Ontario's economy and refashioning its future.
		They include basic questions as to the nature of the relationship between Ontario Hydro and the government, as well as its relationship with the municipal electric utilities which were largely responsible for its creation and are Hydro's partners and principal customers as part of the province-wide electric power system.
	www.ecouncil.ac.cr /about/speech/strong/canclub.htm (3108 words)

	Ontario Hydro v. Ontario (Labour Relations Board), [1993] 3 S.C.R. 327 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Ontario Hydro was not immune from the operation of the Canada Labour Code on the basis that it was a provincial instrumentality set up to advance provincial purposes.
		Ontario Hydro, a provincially owned corporation established for the purpose of generating and distributing electric power, produces electric power through 81 electrical generating stations of which five are nuclear generating stations.
		Ontario Hydro, while conceding that it was not a Crown agent, also argued that it should be immune from federal regulation because it was a provincial instrumentality set up to advance provincial purposes.
	www.lexum.umontreal.ca /csc-scc/en/pub/1993/vol3/html/1993scr3_0327.html (17345 words)

	Earth Council: Papers and Speeches (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Unaccustomed as we at Ontario Hydro are to receiving even conditional blessings from AMPCO in recent years, this was high degree of encouragement to us.
		Ontario Hydro would be cavalier to the point of negligence to ignore such an important group of customers and such a vital force in the economy of Ontario.
		I also believe this restructuring will position the new Ontario Hydro to carry out its new mission: "To help Ontario become the most energy efficient and competitive economy in the world, and a leading example of sustainable development" an ambitious goal, yes, but one that can and must be achieved.
	www.ecouncil.ac.cr /about/speech/strong/ampco.htm (2264 words)

	Power at Cost: Ontario Hydro and Rural Electrification (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Ontario Hydro was a pioneer in the promotion of rural electrification.
		The same may be said of his discussion of Hydro policy, and it is hard to dispute his conclusion that the commission did the best it could under the circumstances.
		This is essential especially when considering the oft-heard accusation that it was Hydro's monopolistic aspirations that prevented small-scale private enterprise from establishing itself as a viable alternative to public ownership in the rural marketplace.
	www.utpjournals.com /product/chr/741/hydro9.html (641 words)

	Power Stations at Niagara Falls: Expert-Eyes.org
		The replacements were made as part of the mechanical and electrical upgradation programme initiated by Ontario Hydro, the State-owned power utility of the Canadian province of Ontario running the power stations at the Niagara Falls.
		Ontario Hydro's predecessor, the Hydro-electric Power Commission, built the second station on the Niagara with ten generating units.
		Ontario Hydro is an international partner in conserving Niagara Falls as a scenic tourist destination by maintaining the flow of water over the falls in accordance with a treaty signed in 1950.
	www.expert-eyes.org /niagara.html (574 words)

	Stop CANDU Exports to Thailand (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Ontario Hydro's newest station, Darlington, was completed in 1993 but operated at only about 50 percent capacity through the summer of 1998 because of computer software problems.
		Nor do they explain that in the event of a nuclear accident, Ontario Hydro's liability for injury to people or damage to their property is limited by law to $75 million, and that the federal government is not obliged to compensate over that limit.
		Ontario Hydro's last nuclear power plant, Darlington, was supposed to be built in 10 years and cost $2.5 billion, but it actually took 20 years and $14.4 billion to complete.
	www.probeinternational.org /probeint/Mekong/candu/9902.html (6384 words)

	Ontario Electricity Financial Corporation -- Overview and Mandate
		The Ontario Electricity Financial Corporation (OEFC) is one of five corporations established by the Electricity Act, 1998.
		Under the Act, the former Ontario Hydro was restructured into Ontario Power Generation Inc. (OPG), Hydro One Inc. (Hydro One), the Independent Electricity System Operator (IESO), the Electrical Safety Authority (ESA) and the OEFC.
		The OFA is the agency of the Province of Ontario responsible for provincial borrowing and debt management.
	www.oefc.on.ca (328 words)

	Computing Canada: Hydro confronts a 'hairy gorilla' - Ontario Hydro IT managers keep systems running - Company ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Most managers at Ontario Hydro have had little to brag about in the last few months, especially the ones in charge of repairing damage caused by the province's ice storms.
		Hydro was asked to present because it has been named one of Boole and Babbage's 1997 Best Practices in Enterprise Management Award winners for its unique approach to solving its distributed systems management problems.
		Ontario Hydro, however, is one of the lucky ones.
	www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_m0CGC/is_n6_v24/ai_20349789 (1195 words)

	An Assessment of the Effects of the Ontario Hydro Redevelopment Project
		Conversely, with Ontario Hydro making greater use of its share of water, there would be a lesser frequency of maximum discharge from the existing New York Power Authority generating stations on the U.S. shore under certain high flow scenarios.
		Ontario Hydro stated that groundwater issues were considered with respect to inhibiting groundwater movement into and from all excavations for both the tunnels and the powerhouse.
		Ontario Hydro stated that air emissions will be associated with tunnel ventilation, from any concreting batch plant operations and equipment movement.
	www.ijc.org /rel/comm/niag/nrfrimpact.html (850 words)

	Ontario hydro project halted (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Ontario has been anxious to increase the flow of power from Quebec to backstop Ontario's electricity system, which can't generate enough power internally when demand is high.
		In 2000 when the line was first proposed, Hydro One estimated its share of the project's costs to be $96.5 million, and Hydro-Québec's to be $208 million.
		In Ontario, there was a wrangle over the type of towers that would be used to carry the new transmission lines.
	www.electricityforum.com /news/jan04/hydroproject.html (370 words)

	Eye - Billion-dollar boondoggle - 03.21.02
		The privatization of Ontario Hydro has been a project of Bill Farlinger ever since Mike Harris was elected, and Farlinger was chosen by Harris to help with the transition from the Bob Rae government at Queen's Park in 1995.
		He was the driving force to privatizing the company, the first step of which was to split it into two companies in 1999 -- Ontario Power Generation, dealing with the generation of electrical power; and Hydro One, responsible for the physical infrastructure (the wires and towers that form the electrical grid).
		Hydro One will pay the company $100 million a year for 10 years for the services it used to run in-house.
	www.eye.net /eye/issue/issue_03.21.02/news/hydro.html (436 words)

	Energy Citations Database (ECD) - Energy and Energy-Related Bibliographic Citations (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Ontario Hydro is one of the largest electric utilities in North America.
		Hydro delivers power over an extensive transmission and distribution system to 314 municipal utilities, more than 100 large industrial consumers, and over 900 thousand customers in rural and remote areas.
		Ontario Hydro is also the largest nuclear utility in Canada, operating 18 nuclear power reactors with capacity totalling almost 13 thousand megawatts electric.
	www.osti.gov /energycitations/product.biblio.jsp?osti_id=103336 (287 words)

	energyprobe.org (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Ontario Hydro was reborn as two commercial Crown-owned companies, Ontario Power Generation (OPG), which owns the generating stations, and Hydro One (H1), which owns the transmission lines.
		OEFC -- the legal successor to Ontario Hydro -- was created to be the agent through which the irresponsible legacy of Ontario Hydro was finally put to rest.
		This disclosure recognizes the fact that ratepayers, not taxpayers, are responsible for the stranded debt of the former Ontario Hydro.
	www.probeinternational.org /energyprobe/print.cfm?ContentID=1448 (1967 words)

	Ontario hydro debt Resource Web Page (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Collecting GST on Ontario's hydro debt is "arbitrary and wrong," some Liberal MPs and MPPs admit.
		Ontario Hydro's debt exceeds $30 billion and well over a third of its total revenues goes to debt payments.
		They stranded Ontario Hydro's debt of $20.9 billion, which the province's consumers are now paying off through a debt repayment charge on their electricity
	www.blancherose.ab.ca /ontario_hydro_debt.html (320 words)

	Eye - Ontario Hydro on the high wire - 01.14.93 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Today, Hydro's chickens are coming home to the urban roost, striking directly at the province's elite construction work force, draining money from people, companies and governments alike, while at the same time threatening to play havoc with the province's finances.
		When 12,000 Hydro employees were served notice that it was time to start talking about the terms of being phased out, a shudder went through the giant utility: The kind of jolt that follows a grounding on the rocks.
		If someone was looking for a dramatic script, they could do worse than tell the tale of Ontario Hydro's fall from grace, from being the powerhouse of Ontario's industrial might to something resembling a sinking ship creating a whirlpool pulling the province's economy down with it.
	www.eye.net /eye/issue/issue_01.14.93/NEWS/env0114.htm (726 words)

	Hydro (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Ontario Hydro Tarts Up I don't know about you, but I have to work for my wages.
		Ontario Hydro was worried that people might think that just because hydro costs have increased every year since time immemorial, and just because our nuclear power plants break down occasionally, people might think that Ontario Hydro doesn't care about the environment.
		Ontario Hydro could develop some internal policies about preventing damage to the environment.
	www.chromehorse.net /rants/rants99/hydro.htm (385 words)

	Weber v. Ontario Hydro, [1995] 2 S.C.R. 929 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Ontario (Labour Relations Board), [1991] 2 S.C.R. Re Ontario Council of Regents for Colleges of Applied Arts and Technology and Ontario Public Service Employees Union (1986), 24 L.A.C. (3d) 144; Mills v.
		It points out that the conduct complained of arose in response to a claim for sick benefits provided for in the collective agreement, and argues that the manner in which the employer monitors entitlement to those benefits is part of the administration of the agreement.
		In view of the foregoing conclusions, it is unnecessary to consider whether Ontario Hydro is bound by the Charter.
	www.lexum.umontreal.ca /csc-scc/en/pub/1995/vol2/html/1995scr2_0929.html (10894 words)

	Maurice Strong and his Hydro connections (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		It was in that year that he opened talks on the purchase of 12,500 hectares (30,875 acres) of a Costa Rican forest in a deal the (Opposition) Progressive Conservatives branded as "wacky" in the face of the utility’s then $34 billion debt.
		The Hydro chairman held private ownership of Costa Rican land not connected to the 30,875 acres.
		Hired by Ontario Hydro in 1992, the 65-year-old Strong was given free rein by Bob Rae, the Premier of Ontario’s first (and arguably last) Socialist government.
	www.torontofreepress.com /2003/main090203.htm (663 words)

	Ontario Hydro Privatization (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		With assets of $40-billion, Ontario Hydro is North America's largest electric utility and a very desirable acquisition for all of the above.
		Ontario taxpayers pay the salaries of Strong, Farlinger and Macdonald, and will be left with any outstanding bills.
		Ontario Hydro's $800 million annual profit is presently paid to the treasury of the Province of Ontario.
	www.mirror.org /people/rhea.east/ohprivat.html (564 words)

	Ontario Hydro Energy (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Ontario Hydro Energy, now a subsidiary of Union Energy, is an established and recognized brand name in Ontario.
		In April 2002, Union Energy, reached an agreement with Hydro One, to purchase Ontario Hydro Energy electricity, natural gas and electric water heater customer contracts and rental agreements.
		Union Energy LP Servicing approximately 1 million customers in Ontario, Union Energy LP, is a completely Canadian-owned and operated company.
	www.ontariohydroenergy.com /AboutUs.asp (191 words)

	Final Report - Ontario Hydro Technologies (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		In the context of potential changes in Ontario's electricity industry (and the commitment of Ontario Hydro's owners, the Ontario Government, to opening the Ontario electricity market to competition), Ontario Hydro began to position itself more and more as a commercial player, and OHT as a competitive provider of technology products and services.
		It was originally developed for Ontario Hydro's rotating equipment, but has now been extended to substation components and circuit breakers.
		Ontario Hydro experts are leaders in setting standards for fall protection, as well as in the development of fall protection equipment.
	www.olcp.com /ufto/ClientsOnly/notes/oht.html (2640 words)

	CBC News:Court rules Ontario government can't proceed with Hydro One privatization (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Ontario Superior Court Judge Arthur Gans issued the surprise decision after the Communications, Energy and Paperworkers Union of Canada and the Canadian Union of Public Employees went to court to try to stop the sell-off.
		The IPO of Hydro One was expected to raise about $5 billion for the provincial government.
		Created in the late 1990s when Ontario Hydro was broken into three pieces by the provincial government, Hydro One runs Ontario's transmission network, which includes power lines and towers.
	www.cbc.ca /stories/2002/04/19/hydroone_020419 (389 words)

	Ontario Hydro energy consumers
		Publicly owned LDC's used to operate as non-profits to benefit citizens, but now after raising their distribution rates, Toronto Hydro is a city cash cow bringing in a "profit" of $195 million last year, and smaller "profits" for the other municipally owned power distribution companies.
		Raising LDC distribution rates at the same time as the generation rates, is a cynical attempt by city politicians to hide their power tax in with the provincial increase so they get none of the blame for skyrocketing rates.
		The Ontario government has said it will shut down all coal-fired generators by 2007, this in spite of the fact that they supply some 1/3 of all Ontario generated electricity and there is little likelyhood they can be replaced in time.
	www.canadafreepress.com /ontario-hydro.htm (888 words)

	CBC News:Natives blast Ontario-Manitoba hydro plan (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		THUNDER BAY, ONT. - A huge hydro deal between Ontario and Manitoba is already facing opposition from First Nations groups who say they weren't informed of the plan.
		Manitoba Premier Gary Doer met Ontario's Ernie Eves in Thunder Bay, Ont. on Friday to sign a memorandum to study the Conawapa dam project.
		But the grand chief of one of the First Nations in northern Ontario said he wasn't even aware of the deal until he saw it on the news.
	www.cbc.ca /stories/2003/06/21/hydro_first_nations030621 (294 words)

	Old Ontario Hydro Debt Likely To Grow Again (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		The $20.1 billion public debt that is the legacy of Ontario Hydro appears likely to grow again this year, while the agency responsible for the debt has missed its legal reporting deadline.
		The Ontario Electricity Financial Corp. is required by law to submit its annual report by June 30, but Scott Brownrigg, an official in Finance Minister Janet Ecker's office, said this year's report still hasn't been filed.
		OEFC holds the $38 billion debt left by Ontario Hydro when it was broken up in 1998.
	www.electricityforum.com /news/jul03/hydrodebt.html (501 words)

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