9 Aug 2024

Human cost of energy crisis mounts

From Checkpoint, 5:25 pm on 9 August 2024

The human cost of the energy crisis is beginning to mount with hundreds of workers being affected by temporary shutdowns or facing the spectre of permanent closure of pulp and paper mills around the country. The blame is being pointed squarely at wholesale electricity prices which have risen sharply from an average of about 100 dollars per megawatt hour in September 2021 up to around 700 dollars earlier this week. Our reporter Robin Martin has more.