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Will Ontario miss the boat on energy conservation? | – Environmental Defence

November 19, 2014

Will Ontario miss the boat on energy conservation? | – Environmental Defence.

Energy conservation is the cheapest and easiest way to cut greenhouse gas emissions.

Research shows that reducing energy use creates jobs, increases our GDP, lowers government deficits, and cuts carbon pollution. It’s for these reasons that the Ontario government adopted the principle of “Conservation First” in its recent Long Term Energy Plan. The government rightly sees that increased conservation is a win for everyone.

Unfortunately, as our new study shows, the push for conservation may fail somewhere between vision and implementation.

The Ontario Energy Board (OEB), the organization that oversees the natural gas companies – Enbridge and Union Gas –  was directed by the Minister of Energy to develop new rules (called a “framework”) to enable “all cost-effective conservation.”  Essentially this means creating a system to fund conservation programs in all cases where the costs of a new purchase, such as a furnace, are more than offset by the energy cost savings resulting from the purchase.

But the OEB appears prepared to all but ignore the Minister’s directive.

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