Ontario’s electricity operator must make energy diversification more than a pipe dream

The government wants Ontario open for business, but the province’s energy regulator is damaging Ontario’s reputation as a location for attractive and favorable investment in renewable energies.

In 2018, Ontario’s Independent Electricity System Operator killed development contracts for almost 760 new wind and solar projects across the province, and the next year cancelled 80 more renewable projects already under construction, writes Jared Whitley. Photograph courtesy of Pexels

Opinion

BY JARED WHITLEY

March 29, 2021

One of the first things U.S. President Joe Biden did was cancel the Keystone XL pipeline, the main artery for oil between the United States and Canada. Suffocating this was called “

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