The Low Income Energy Network was pleased to host the Fighting Poverty and Pollution Conference in Toronto on April 7, 2005. This was a gathering for anti-poverty, affordable housing and environmental advocates in Ontario to share experiences and develop an action agenda on low-income energy issues such as:
For background information and copies of presentations made at the conference, please refer to the documents posted below.
Conference materials
Discussion paper on a low-income energy efficiency strategy
Background presentation on LIEN
Presentations
TEA -- who does what on energy policy in Ontario
ACTO -- The Tenant Protection Act, energy and sub-metering
Affordable and Efficient: a low-income energy efficiency strategy
Pembina -- Ontario sustainable electricity
CELA -- What's been done so far: LIEN origins, principles and proposals
ACTO -- The low-income energy burden in Ontario
Ontario Energy Board -- Electricity distributors conservation and demand management
Toronto Hydro -- Conservation and demand management: July 2004 to September 2007
Enbridge -- Mass markets low-income program
Share the Warmth - The Provincial Energy Fund