Consumers in Ontario are shocked at home by electricity system
Why is province producing more power than it would ever need especially with smart conservation trends continuing?
By
Mark Schadenberg
I’ve
trained myself to have too many trains of thought, so I hope I’m not too far off
track today, especially when it’s a day when Santa is in Woodstock on a train.
I
remember as a child hearing about Pierre Trudeau’s philosophy on ‘wage and
price’ controls. It all seems to make too much easy sense that if prices for
consumable materials rise by 2%, wages must also rise by 2% or you’re falling
behind.
When
I was just 9 years old, the Trudeau Liberal government of 1975 introduced (see
history link below) what was called The Anti-Inflation Act which was designed
to control price increases in many sectors of the economy, and limit salary
increases by 10% the first year and then 8% in year two and then 6% in year
three.
It
was strange times in the economy certainly.
Our
strange times today revolve around supply and demand, and the production and
availability of certain goods and services.
Just
about every real estate market in southern Ontario lacks inventory and to
further the scenario buyers far out number sellers by a wide margin. The folks
of the GTA who desire home ownership have purchased in Guelph,
Kitchener-Waterloo and Cambridge. The house hunters in those 4 communities are
now searching in Woodstock because they can no longer afford their hometown.
The trickle-down appears to end in London as the commute to Toronto is too far
when you arrive west of Woodstock.
I
remember going on a school field trip with one of my children to a local apple
orchard. It was quite late in the picking season and everyone was bundled on
top of the tractor-and-wagon mode of transportation. I was startled and amazed
– startled and amazed at the million or more apples which had fallen from the
trees to rot. When this fruit was ripe, was there no one available to harvest
them? Was there no market – store, produce market, pie conveyor belt, apple
crumble recipe, or cider squeezer – to consumer these apples? It truly seemed
like an astounding waste.
Just
before Halloween this year I witnessed a similar comparison as I drove past 2
different pumpkin acreages to see thousands and thousands of orange gourds
which appeared to never be finding a home (front porch with a carved snarl or
pie contents) before becoming fertilizer.
I’ve
now reached my arrival point and won’t delve too far into the details because
there is a terrific CBC prose attached to this entry below. Our hydro system
creates way too much electricity, so our province sells off the access to
neighbouring states and provinces at a price below what we pay to produce it.
Ontario people lose because we are paying to produce a lot of this electricity (dollars
delivered to power producers) and then we lose again when the surplus kilowatts
are shipped away. Meantime, the buyers, who obviously need electricity are
saving twice as they are not building systems to create power (coal is becoming
obsolete obviously, but there is also nuclear, waterways, solar and wind).
Photo taken from Old Stage Road in Norwich Township
Solar panel behind Woodstock District Community Complex
Proposed Solar Project on Tecumseh Street in Woodstock
Consumers
in Ontario are begged to conserve this precious resource called hydro, but this
practice only creates more excess. This fact doesn’t even account for delivery
charges.
Connections
to the local economy are many – hydro creation on Gunn’s Hill Road area in
Norwich Township and the production of blades by Siemens in Tillsonburg.
The
scheme called macro economics is always more complex than can be solved in 1
run-on paragraph about plugs and outlets, but everyone in this province should
read the 2 CBC stories below as the second link describes the coal conundrum.
LINKS:
Dutton / Elgin County Story
Mark Schadenberg, Sales
Representative
Senior Real Estate Specialist
(SRES designation)
Royal LePage Triland Realty
Independently Owned & Operated, Brokerage
757 Dundas St, Woodstock
(519) 537-1553, cell or text
Email: mschadenberg@rogers.com
Twitter: markroyallepage
Facebook: Mark Schadenberg, Royal LePage Triland
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