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RSS FeedsTories want OPP to investigate `ineligible expenses´ billed by power plants
(The Star Books)

 
 

11 december 2017 14:45:40

 
Tories want OPP to investigate `ineligible expenses´ billed by power plants
(The Star Books)
 


The Progressive Conservatives are calling on police to investigate $260 million in “ineligible expenses” — including staff car washes and scuba gear — billed by nine power plants, as revealed in last week’s auditor general report.These are “abuses so egregious that a second look by law enforcement is only prudent,” Tory MPP and energy critic Todd Smith says in a one-page letter to OPP Commissioner Vince Hawkes.“I have serious concerns about what appeared to be a broad and systemic abuse of the energy system and, ultimately, the hard-earned money of ratepayers,” Smith added.“I have no faith in the Liberal government’s ability to punish the companies responsible.”Previous requests for police investigations from opposition parties at Queen’s Park have resulted in charges against two of Premier Kathleen Wynne’s Liberal organizers in the 2015 Sudbury byelection — although a judge dismissed that case in October.There were also criminal counts in regard to allegedly deleted documents after two gas-fired power plants were scrapped by then-premier Dalton McGuinty before the 2011 election.A verdict in that trial, involving two former key McGuinty aides who have pleaded not guilty, is due Jan. 19. McGuinty was not under investigation and co-operated with police.The hard-hitting report by auditor general Bonnie Lysyk blamed lax oversight of electricity companies by the province’s Independent Electricity System Operator (IESO) for the questionable expenses getting through.Once they were discovered through internal audits, the agency responsible for meeting Ontario’s daily electricity needs issued orders for repayment of $169 million against nine power plants.One company, which operates the Goreway natural gas-fired power plant in Brampton, was fined $10 million and directed to repay $100 million in a 2015 order.While the Goreway case was revealed in an Ontario Energy Board p ...


 
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