[All] Right idea, wrong target

[Robert Milligan]

> From: Ontario Clean Air Alliance <contact at cleanairalliance.org>
> Subject: Right idea, wrong target
> Date: June 4, 2014 at 2:21:08 PM EDT
> To: mill at continuum.org
> Reply-To: Ontario Clean Air Alliance <contact at cleanairalliance.org>
> Right idea, wrong target
> In last night’s provincial election debate, PC Leader Tim Hudak pointed to the availability of low-cost, water power from Quebec as a way of reducing Ontario electricity bills. Unfortunately Mr. Hudak said that water power imports should be used to replace made-in-Ontario green power instead of high-cost nuclear.
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> Mr. Hudak has embraced the right solution, but the wrong target. Nuclear energy is far more responsible for driving up our electricity bills than renewable energy.
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> Let’s look at the facts: Every nuclear project in Ontario’s history has gone massively over budget (on average by 2.5 times), and Ontario Power Generation is now asking for a 30% price increase for its nuclear power to start paying the massive costs of re-building its aging Darlington nuclear reactors. Meanwhile, the cost of solar and wind power accounts for only 7% of the average Ontario monthly electricity bill.
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> If Premier Wynne, Mr. Hudak and Ms. Horwath really want to reduce your electricity bill, they should promise to reduce our electricity costs by up to $1 billion per year or more by importing water power from Quebec and cancelling the high-cost, high-risk Darlington Re-Build Project.
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