AIMS On-Line for early November 2000
Here is a brief overview of just some of AIMS' activities and publications early November 2000
From Promises to Crisis
Tom Adams, Executive Director of Energy Probe examines the problems beseting Ontario Hydro, drawing out lessons for Atalntic Canada on how the regions power systems might be further liberalised.
The impossible game
Both Brian Tobin and Stockwell Day have been wooing Atlantic Canadians with promises to end the anti-development bias of the federal equalisation programme. In an op-ed piece in the Globe and Mail, AIMS President Brian Lee Crowley argues that they're on the right track, but neither has gone nearly far enough in their plans to fix equalisation's perverse effects.
Plugging in Atlantic Canada: AIMS/ECANS first major conference on electricity
How will competition, deregulation and privatization in the continental electricity market affect us?
Atlantic Canada Should Aim For Regional Pwr Mkt-Thinktank
Here is the Dow Jones News Service report on Tom Adams' keynote speech at Plugging in Atlantic Canada.
Regulators and their conflict of interest
The financial conflicts of interest that politicians occasionally find themselves in, and that so entertain the press, are minor compared to the conflicts their departments enter into by routinely both regulating and financing, insuring and promoting industry. From the Westray mine disaster, through aquaculture, to genetically-modified foods, this conflict in roles only leads to trouble. If governments want to regulate, they should only regulate. If they want to do more, they should hand over the regulatory job to some other agency.