Maybe The Chronicle Journal (the Newspaper of the Northwest) sometimes prints nonsense in order to obtain high quality responses - such as it displays today.
Living here in Northwestern Ontario, I tried to understand what it might mean to me and Ontario residents in general, if CAPE’s advice is followed in Ontario’s Long-Term Energy Plan Review.Read more »
With our decimated industrial user base, power demand the week before the Canada Day weekend in the Northwest was so low, the “old” green power from OPG’s largest regional hydro-electric station on the Nipigon River was caused to shut down and power was purchased instead from politically-in-favour “new” generators at twice the cost.
In Northwestern Ontario, hydro-electric generators, bought and paid for by Ontario taxpayers and electricity consumers decades ago, that can sell power to the grid for 50 per cent of the “new” green generators, are shut. So in future, if more green power is legislated into the grid, will more “old” hydro green energy be curtailed in our region?
CAPE also petitioned the Ontario government to be more aggressive in reducing Ontario’s dependence on nuclear, and even natural gas, to “save lives.”
After the Japanese earthquake and tsunami, Germany, a recognized leader in renewables like solar and wind power, declared nuclear generation verboten. But Germany knows renewables need back-up when the wind don’t blow and the sun don’t shine. So with nuclear being phased out, two new coal-fired plants opened in Germany and six more will in 2013 for a combined capacity of 5,800 MW! And 27 gas-fired plants are in the works.
If CAPE’s statistics on Ontario deaths are correct, then Germany has just condemned hundreds of its people to die and hundreds of thousands to new illnesses.
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