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That face tho.

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“Admits Hydro Theft Declares Son Sick,” Toronto Star. September 16, 1938. Page 08. ---- Pleading guilty to theft of electric power from East York Hydro, John Roworth was fined $10 and costs by Magistrate Prentice in county police court yesterday.

On an additional charge of violating the Public Utilities Act, accused was given suspended sentence. The charge was withdrawn against his wife.

‘My boy was sick and I had no lights in the house,’ testified accused. ‘So I connected it up myself. They wouldn’t connect it up for me because I owed some money on a bill.’

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(via Neighborhood Transformers: Inside Toronto's Stealthy House-Shaped Substations - 99% Invisible)

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#TOpoli #FIPPA #Toronto #Hydro Corp. is spending public money on #consultants, including Bay Street lawyers, to help it keep a secret — how much public money it has spent on #consultants. David Rider, the Star’s city hall bureau chief has been trying to find out. It’s a battle that has now been fought for more than a year — and there is no end in sight.

January 2016: Using anonymous sources, I revealed behind-the-scenes work to set the stage for a partial privatization of the century-old power distributor of which the City of Toronto is sole shareholder.

Jan. 8, 2016: My story “Toronto Hydro privatization plan in the works” is published.

Jan. 22, 2016: I then submitted two applications to hydro under Ontario’s freedom of information legislation. I asked for copies of internal hydro communications mentioning any possible privatization, and for the estimated cost of all work done by consultants, including lawyers and pollsters, related to a possible sale.

To me it seemed basic information, albeit potentially controversial for an arm’s length agency that had no mandate from city council to explore a possible sale. I expected a fight, fueled by institutional aversion to lifting the hood on internal machinations, and maybe the grudging release of some pages mostly or fully blanked out.

That would force me to appeal to Ontario’s Information and Privacy Commissioner (IPC) in hopes hydro would be ordered to fully live up to its responsibilities under the Municipal Freedom of Information and Protection of Privacy Act.

(via Toronto Hydro and the power of secrecy: analysis | Toronto Star)

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Better Guardians needed for Ontario's Electricity Sector

Better Guardians needed for Ontario’s Electricity Sector

Retired Toronto Hydro employees called on agencies mandated to protect the public interest to investigate malpractice at Toronto Hydro only to be stonewalled.

Tom Adams’ Ontario Electricity Regulation Crisis Report Part 125 Guest Post: Stonewalled by Guardians demands reading – it’s about Toronto Hydro, but I fear its applicable to most things connected with Toronto.

My interests may be peaked…

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Forget batteries, Canada plans to store energy in giant underwater balloons

Forget batteries, Canada plans to store energy in giant underwater balloons

Canada’s Hydrostor is promoting a creative energy storage solution that’s half the price of the most effective battery engineering and continues two times as long. The clear energy startup is saving energy as compressed oxygen and housing the atmosphere underwater inside giant balloons. Although it seems absurd, the concept is productive at energy storage, and a, zero-pollutants option.

Cleantech…

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