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   Monday, August 25, 2003

STILL MORE BLACKOUT

Here's a little CBC story on the sensible hopes of environmentalists that we the public won't rev up our power levels back to overload now that the immediate electricity shortage has eased. I for one have been lobbying to keep the lights low in the store but my road is starting to shift uphill...

Meanwhile, everyone continues to ask why, why, WHY this horror happened, which I find hilarious. Ontario energy critics warned years ago that rampant deregulation with no accountability was a terrible idea -- look what happened in California this past decade. Instead, Mike Harris and his greedy Tory half-wits gave control over our power lines to profit-hungry private enterprise and the same old story happened all over again.

Brilliant journalist Greg Palast outlined a lot of this in his essay, "California Reamin': Deregulation and the Power Pirates," contained in his book, The Best Democracy Money Can Buy. It's fair and balanced, so check it out.