The guy who was the chair of Notley's Climate Change Panel (Andrew Leach), admitted that they never even considered the possibility of the PPA's becoming unprofitable or more unprofitable.
Pretty hard to support the NDP in this so called "action to protect consumers", when they were so ignorant to not even analyze the worst case scenarios of the Power Companies terminating the PPAs.
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But without that analysis on the table there was no reason to think about a clause allowing power companies to back out of contracts.
Leach says nothing he's seen highlighted the need to go over the provision for power companies to exit their contracts.
Late last year, he says, they didn't expect contracts to be "unprofitable" or "more profitable."
"That's kind of why you didn't see the government planning on that because it wasn't the expected outcome."
According to Leach, if they'd done an analysis of what would happen if prices dropped after the added costs from the government people would have asked why.
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http://www.calgarysun.com/2016/08/10...ity-argy-bargy