Introduction; 1. The White Coal of Niagara; 2. The Triumph of Democracy; 3. The People's Power Company; 4. Rural Electrification, Farm Modernization; 5. The Queenston-Chippawa Project; 6. The Radials Controversy; 7. Public Power in the United States; 8. The Politics of Power; 9. The Natural Gas Betrayal; 10. Nuclear Ontario; 11. The NDP Years: 1990-1995; 12. The British Disaster; 13. The American Disaster -- Part 1; 14. The American Disaster -- Part 2; 15. The Ontario Disaster -- Part 1; 16. The Ontario Disaster -- Part 2; 17. The Inevitable Failure of Deregulation
Summary
Deregulating electricity prices and privatizing publicly owned power system assets has been an economic disaster in North America and elsewhere. Instead of the promised abundance of lower-priced power, states and provinces that have embraced deregulation and privatization are now experiencing astonishing price spikes and unexpected shortages. Taking us from the very beginnings of the electricity industry in the 1880s right up to the present day, Howard Hampton vividly recounts the dramatic political struggles between public and private power in both Canada and the United States, a moving story
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 284-286) and index
