Toronto Electricians and Electrical Contractors

Court Denies EFF Effort to Obtain Classified Significant Surveillance Court Opinions A federal court’s ruling earlier this week has blunted a key provision of the surveillance reform law that required the government to be more transparent about legal decisions made by the United States secret surveillance court. After Edward Snowden revealed the government’s ongoing mass collection of Americans’ telephone phone records in 2013, Congress responded by passing the USA Freedom Act in 2015. In addition to limiting the NSA’s surveillance authority, Congress also clearly intended to end the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court’s (FISC) ability to keep the decisions it made behind closed doors secret. Since its inception in the 1970s, the government has asked the FISC  to decide what constitutional or other legal protections, if any, Americans and others enjoy while seeking approval of the government’s secret mass surveillance programs. Though we were not happy with many aspects ...

It’s estimated that there are more than 300 million electric motors in the world being used in industry, infrastructure, and large buildings, with electric motor-driven systems (EMDS) accounting for between 43-46% of all global electricity consumption . Motors drive everything from processes, to commercial heating, ventilating, cooling, and refrigeration. With business productivity so dependent on them, it’s important that they’re properly protected. In most jurisdictions, motor protection is mandatory, so OEM machine builders and electrical contractors will ensure that there is a circuit breaker used on each motor circuit. If the proper type of motor circuit breaker is selected, the motor will be adequately protected. Unfortunately, there are many examples in which a standard electrical distribution circuit breaker was chosen for this purpose. These breakers are typically selected because they are lower cost. But they are designed to protect standard types of circuits and loads, no...