Hydro
eBook - ePub

Hydro

  1. 248 pages
  2. English
  3. ePUB (mobile friendly)
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - ePub

Hydro

About this book

“Nothing is going to go wrong.”-Mike Harris, 2001

Privatization of power soon became one of the biggest political disasters in Ontario history. Hydro reveals a train wreck that was decades in the making. First there was blind faith in the nuclear option, steeped in ecological arrogance. Then came the promise of marketplace magic.

Jamie Swift and Keith Stewart tell the tale of how it unfolded. It’s a dramatic story of the greed, intrigue, and resistance that led to the dismantling of Canada’s largest crown corporation. A crucial part of the story is how Ontario ignored thirty years of green arguments for conservation and renewable energy.

Based on interviews with former premiers, Hydro insiders, and grassroots activists, Hydro will intrigue anyone wondering how to keep the lights on without frying the planet.

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Table of contents

  1. Cover Page
  2. Title Page
  3. Copyright Page
  4. Dedication
  5. Contents
  6. Preface
  7. Acknowledgements
  8. One: Introduction: The Rise and Fall of an Electric Empire
  9. Two: Power and the Tory Dynasty: The Making of a Crisis
  10. Three: The Electric City and Public Power: Promise, Peril, and Peterson
  11. Four: Liberalizing Electricity: Chile, Britain, and Ontario
  12. Five: The NDP Years: Clearing the Tracks for Privatization?
  13. Six: South of the Border: California, Enron, and the Yankee Alternative
  14. Seven: All Aboard the Privatization Express: The Harris Tories
  15. Eight: Danger Ahead: The Wheels Fall Off
  16. Nine: Morbid Symptoms and a Regime Change
  17. A Chronology of Ontario’s Electricity System 1884–2003
  18. Notes
  19. Index