[Bring_Back_Shantz]

Originally Posted by DoubleK

Dude. That's just revisionist history.

I'm not suggesting that going off coal, this, that or the other thing wasn't needed.

My point and my point alone is that the NDP completely cocked up the electricity file. ALL of the impacts we are talking about were a consequence of the NDP proposing to chance the market design.

I am not suggesting that they had absolutely command and knowledge of what cascading effects were to come, that would be absurd.

But to suggest that PPAs would expire no matter who owned them is a justification in some fashion that the Balancing Pool needed to continue is completely false. And displays a fundamentally intractable understand of the BP.

The NDP could have done this differently, they chose not to.

1) When have I said the balancing pool needed to continue? I've said that your comment that the NDP dissolved the balancing pools was wrong. The balancing pool had a shelf life no matter who was in government, because so did the PPAs. Also ,I'm not suggesting the PPAs would expire no matter who owned them, it doesn't need to be suggested, it's a fact. They were/are contracts with a defined life span. 20 years is 20 years no matter who is responsible for it.

2) Explain to me how the NDP proposing a change to the market, not actually changing the market, but proposing one, is the reason things have gone off the rails 4 years later?