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In Our Backyard, Recall Hydro’s Bill 36

Commentary, Crown Corporations, Energy, Utilities, Graham LaneJune 26, 2022

Manitobans interested in politics, economics, indigenous and/or environment issues should read a new book, “In Our Backyard, Keeyask and the Legacy of Hydro Development”.  After digesting the information and messages provided by this worthy work, you might find yourself, like …

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Crown Utilities’ Unfair Advantages Reduce Competition, Innovation

Commentary, Crown Corporations, Utilities, Ian MadsenDecember 22, 2021

Largely unique among state-owned enterprises, ‘SEOs’, worldwide, Canadian Crown corporations have two key advantages over current and future private sector competitors: non-taxable status and access to low-cost public sector borrowing rates. Other implicit edges shared with global sister firms: tacit …

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Valuation Series: Abundant Natural Gas, Ample Opportunity – A Valuation & Strategic Appraisal of SaskEnergy

Valuation of Crown Corporations, Crown Corporations, Utilities, Ian MadsenMarch 18, 2021

Divesting SaskEnergy Can Increase Its Profitability  WINNIPEG, MB, March 18, 2021 – The Frontier Centre for Public Policy has just released Abundant Natural Gas, Ample Opportunity: A Valuation & Strategic Appraisal of SaskEnergy by Ian Madsen, a senior policy analyst …

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Time for Real Change at Manitoba Hydro (Part 3 of 3)

Commentary, Crown Corporations, Utilities, Graham LaneDecember 29, 2020

Governments continue to mismanage publicly owned utilities, from East to the West.   Newfoundland and Labrador’s government, still reeling from a 1969 agreement providing Churchill Falls’ electricity to Quebec at meagre prices (to 2041), built another utility albatross in the form …

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Manitoba Hydro, a Wounded Utility (Part 2 of 3)

Commentary, Crown Corporations, Utilities, Graham LaneDecember 26, 2020

Hydro was once heralded as “Manitoba’s oil”. The Limestone Dam was finished in 1990, twice the size of Keeyask (still under construction) – at one-sixth its cost. With Limestone running, residential and industry customers could look forward to having cheap …

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Disaster Averted, Meddling Potential Persists: A Valuation & Strategic Appraisal of BC Hydro

Valuation of Crown Corporations, Crown Corporations, Utilities, Ian MadsenOctober 15, 2019

BC Hydro is the electric power generating holding company and retail utility supplying the province of British Columbia (BC). As its name implies, it is nearly entirely a hydro-electric generation-based provider. The Peace River Site C project is scheduled to be …

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A Valuation & Strategic Appraisal of Newfoundland & Labrador’s Electric Utility

Valuation of Crown Corporations, Crown Corporations, Utilities, Ian MadsenSeptember 24, 2019

Nalcor is the electric power generating holding company supplying the province of Newfoundland and Labrador, ‘NL’. It is also the parent company of  Newfoundland & Labrador Hydro, ‘NLH’, the actual utility that distributes and sells electric power to households, industrial …

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A Valuation & Strategic Appraisal of SaskPower

Valuation of Crown Corporations, Crown Corporations, Utilities, Ian MadsenSeptember 19, 2019

SaskPower is the electric power generating holding company and retail utility supplying the province of Saskatchewan. It also buys power from independent suppliers within the province. Unlike some of its Crown utility peers in Canada, it is not in bad …

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A Valuation & Strategic Appraisal of Ontario Power Generation

Valuation of Crown Corporations, Crown Corporations, Utilities, Ian MadsenAugust 26, 2019

Ontario Power Generation (OPG) is Ontario’s largest electric power generating utility. In 2016, OPG supplied electricity to approximately 50 percent of local and provincial power utilities. OPG‘s wide provincial geographic scope and vast array of productive generating assets would make …

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