Since I haven’t really taken pictures in awhile, I hope you’ll indulge me the occasional blogpost on other matters. For any of you interested in renewable, affordable energy in Ontario, you may find this news below of interest. I cannot tell you the amount of effort and coordination (as well as behind-the-scenes dealings at the upper levels) that is necessary for this kind of agreement to be reached. WOW!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Congratulations to all those who got it done! And the rest of us owe the Ontario Govt and all the advocates and players involved a HUGE THANK YOU!!!

Quebec power breakthrough

According to Quebec newspaper La Presse, Ontario and Quebec are on the cusp on signing a major new power import agreement. If the agreement goes ahead as planned, Ontario will buy eight terawatt hours of renewable electricity from Quebec every year for the next 20 years – enough power to serve the needs of close to a million homes in Ontario.

This is exciting news for the people of Ontario, who stand to benefit from the expanded import of low-cost Quebec water power. La Presse reports that Ontario will pay just over 6 cents per kilowatt hour for this power – a bargain compared to 9 cents to extend Pickering, or 16.5 cents to rebuild Darlington.

We congratulate Premier Wynne and Energy Minister Glen Thibeault for acting on the tremendous opportunity to lower electricity costs in Ontario by tapping into our neighbour’s huge supply of low-cost power .

This deal is still far from maxing out both Quebec’s supply of low-cost power and Ontario’s ability to import such clean, green power. But it is a big step and paves the way for expanded imports in the future.

With this agreement in place, there will be even less reason to keep the old and dangerous Pickering Nuclear Station operating in the heart of the Greater Toronto Area. The government’s next step should be to order Ontario Power Generation to shut down North America’s fourth oldest nuclear plant in 2018 when its licence expires.

Please send the Premier and the Minister a note thanking them for pursuing a deal for clean, low-cost power with Quebec.

Thank you.

Angela Bischoff, Outreach Director

If you’d like to thank Premier Kathleen Wynne and Minister of Energy Glenn Thibeault, you can email them at:

premier@ontario.ca, gthibeault.mpp.co@liberal.ola.org

Hi Folks, please bear with me as I get sidetracked by quite a few people whose feathers I have ruffled in the past 6 months while I was working at MV.

L, I’d like to clarify that I have no contact with anyone from MV. KW has been hacked into my email account since February, so I cannot be responsible for anything they or anyone else may choose to do or say at work, and beyond. You are picking on the wrong person.

I received your send-off card in the spirit it was given, and during these past few weeks I would glance at it occasionally and feel that despite everything, your expression of thanks was sincere, despite ending my contract early, etc.

For everyone else, please disregard this post. It is basically about my hyper-sensitivity to social environments that has been in high gear since January 2017. I experienced full-on PTSD during my first 6 weeks of employment, but after that, it was too late, the damage was done and I became a social pariah. There’s a lot to be explained about all that, but I will create a new second blog for that purpose. Thank you for your patience and understanding.

(Note: These are NOT my photos; they come from an email circular.)

My relative who has been on psychiatric meds for over 40 years sent this email. She was able to stay at one job, got married, and has been active in church and in her communities.

Happy Mother’s Day to all the women who have children of their own, or have been like a mother to others! Have a great day and year!