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Originally Posted by chemgear
The plan was to go to court all along even though you could have saved the risk or trouble. I don't get it.
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I don't think they had a plan to go to court. My guess is they met with the Balancing Pool executives who let them know how much power bills are going to rise over the next few months if these PPAs are cancelled (the pool accepted the first cancellation, I think in December, and then 3 more came and they've sat on them), thereby having a huge outcry when people start asking the "why" as to their power bill shooting through the roof, and the answer will by, "NDP, that's why".
The only way they get out of this would be to strike new contracts with the producers, which would take far too long to negotiate and frankly, the NDP has not shown themselves to be willing to anything other than to try to pass losses onto them, or, as they've chosen, file a faint hope lawsuit--- and I don't even think they think they can win the lawsuit, its more about trying to save face claiming to be the ones fighting to keep energy bills down even though they caused the problem in the first place.