Public Power: Energy Production in the 21st Century 1894663446, 9781894663441

Deregulating electricity prices and privatising publicly owned power system assets has been an economic disaster in Nort

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Table of contents :
Contents......Page 10
Introduction......Page 16
1. The White Coal of Niagara......Page 22
2. The Triumph of Democracy......Page 28
3. The People's Power Company......Page 40
4. Rural Electrification, Farm Modernization......Page 56
5. The Queenston-Chippawa Project......Page 70
6. The Radials Controversy......Page 80
7. Public Power in the United States......Page 88
8. The Politics of Power......Page 98
9. The Natural Gas Betrayal......Page 110
10. Nuclear Ontario......Page 122
11. The NDP Years: 1990-1995......Page 140
12. The British Disaster......Page 154
13. The American Disaster – Part 1......Page 164
14. The American Disaster – Part 2......Page 172
15. The Ontario Disaster – Part 1......Page 188
16. The Ontario Disaster – Part 2......Page 200
17. The Inevitable Failure of Deregulation......Page 214
18. The Retreat from Privatization......Page 230
19. A 21st Century Public Power System......Page 244
20. Our Gift to the Future......Page 260
Notes......Page 264
Sources......Page 285
B......Page 288
C......Page 289
E......Page 290
G......Page 291
K......Page 292
M......Page 293
N......Page 294
O......Page 295
P......Page 296
S......Page 297
U......Page 298
W......Page 299

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