<table cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" border="0" ><tr><td valign="top" style="font: inherit;">Hi folks<br><br>Angela from the Clean Air Alliance forwarded the following info illustrating the plans the liberal party has for Ontario's energy. KW is slated to have a gas plant! Also, below that, there is a link to allow the public to give comment to the current energy plan. If you don't want nuclear power in Ontario, now's the time to say it!<br><br>Lulu :0)<br>________________________________________________________<br><br><p class="yiv1258670775MsoNormal" style=""><b><span style="font-size: 18pt; font-family: "serif"; color: rgb(79, 129, 189);">Nuclear heavy energy plan will double residential electricity bills – Ontario Clean Air Alliance</span></b><span style="font-size: 18pt; font-family: "serif";" lang="EN-CA"></span></p><p class="yiv1258670775MsoNormal" style=""><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "serif";">The
McGuinty Government released their new 20-year electricity plan today.
This plan is a big slice of “Back to the future” with a major emphasis
on costly, risky and completely unnecessary nuclear projects. </span></p><p class="yiv1258670775MsoNormal" style=""><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "serif";">Here are its key features: </span><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "serif";" lang="EN-CA"></span></p><p class="yiv1258670775MsoNormal" style=""><b><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "serif"; color: rgb(79, 129, 189);">Coal phase-out</span></b><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "serif";" lang="EN-CA"></span></p><p class="yiv1258670775MsoNormal" style=""><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "serif";">The good news: The Government of Ontario is speeding up the coal phase-out.</span><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "serif";" lang="EN-CA"></span></p><p class="yiv1258670775MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 10pt; margin-left: 0.5in;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family:
"serif";">- 2 of Nanticoke’s 6 remaining coal boilers will be shut down in 2011.</span><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "serif";" lang="EN-CA"></span></p><p class="yiv1258670775MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 10pt; margin-left: 0.5in;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "serif";">- The Atikokan coal plant will be converted to biomass by 2013.</span><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "serif";" lang="EN-CA"></span></p><p class="yiv1258670775MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 10pt; margin-left: 0.5in;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "serif";">- The Thunder Bay coal plant will be converted to run on natural gas and potentially also biomass.</span><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "serif";"
lang="EN-CA"></span></p><p class="yiv1258670775MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 10pt; margin-left: 0.5in;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "serif";">-
The Government will make a decision in 2012 on the conversion of some
or all of the remaining coal units at Nanticoke and Lambton to natural
gas. </span><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "serif";" lang="EN-CA"></span></p><p class="yiv1258670775MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 10pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "serif";">These
are important steps in the right direction given that Ontario has more
than enough generation available to end coal use now. </span><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "serif";" lang="EN-CA"></span></p><p class="yiv1258670775MsoNormal" style=""><b><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "serif"; color: rgb(79, 129, 189);">Nuclear</span></b><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "serif";" lang="EN-CA"></span></p><p class="yiv1258670775MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 10pt; margin-left: 0.5in;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "serif";">-
The Government plans to move forward with re-building the aging
Darlington and Bruce Nuclear Stations and building two new nuclear
reactors at Darlington.</span><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "serif";" lang="EN-CA"></span></p><p class="yiv1258670775MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 10pt; margin-left: 0.5in;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "serif";">-
According to the Government, its nuclear plan will cost $33 billion.
However, every nuclear project in Ontario’s history has gone massively
over budget – on average by 2.5 times. Therefore the real cost of
McGuinty’s nuclear plan will almost certainly be $83 billion or more.
That means the total cost of McGuinty’s 20 year electricity plan will be
$137 billion or more.</span><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "serif";" lang="EN-CA"></span></p><p class="yiv1258670775MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 10pt; margin-left: 0.5in;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "serif";">- According to McGuinty’s plan, in 2030 Ontario will obtain 55% of its electricity from costly nuclear power.</span><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "serif";" lang="EN-CA"></span></p><p class="yiv1258670775MsoNormal" style=""><b><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "serif"; color: rgb(79, 129, 189);">Conservation</span></b><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "serif";" lang="EN-CA"></span></p><p class="yiv1258670775MsoNormal" style=""><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "serif";">Ontario’s
demand for electricity has fallen by 7% since 2006, yet our electricity
consumption per person is still 35% higher than New York State’s. But
instead of ramping up conservation efforts to cut waste and improve
efficiency, the McGuinty plan calls for a massive supply increase –
Ontario’s total electricity generation capacity in 2030 (40,900 MW) will
be 63% greater than our peak demand in 2010. Apparently, the Premier
has little faith in his government’s ability to truly create “a culture
of conservation.”</span></p><p class="yiv1258670775MsoNormal" style=""><b><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "serif"; color: rgb(79, 129, 189);" lang="EN-CA">Green Energy</span></b><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "serif";" lang="EN-CA"></span></p><p class="yiv1258670775MsoNormal" style=""><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "serif";" lang="EN-CA">According
to the McGuinty Plan, wind, solar and bio-energy will provide Ontario
with 15% of its electricity supply in 2030, up from up from 3% today.</span></p><p class="yiv1258670775MsoNormal" style=""><b><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "serif"; color: rgb(79, 129, 189);">New Peaker Plant for Kitchener-Waterloo</span></b><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "serif";" lang="EN-CA"></span></p><p class="yiv1258670775MsoNormal" style=""><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "serif";">The
McGuinty Plan calls for the construction of a large new, inefficient
gas-fired peaker plant in Kitchener-Waterloo despite the fact that the
region’s electricity needs can be met at a much lower cost with an
integrated combination of energy efficiency, demand response and
combined heat and power. Will it be Oakville all over again?</span><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "serif";" lang="EN-CA"></span></p><p class="yiv1258670775MsoNormal" style=""><b><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "serif"; color: rgb(79, 129, 189);">Combined Heat and Power</span></b><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "serif";" lang="EN-CA"></span></p><p class="yiv1258670775MsoNormal" style=""><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "serif";">The
McGuinty Plan directs the Ontario Power Authority to establish a
combined heat and power (CHP) standard offer program for projects of 20
MW or less. However, new CHP procurement is capped at approximately
500 MW despite the fact that its cost per kWh is less than one-third
that of new nuclear and Ontario’s total CHP potential is greater than
11,000 MW. Why are we artificially capping cleaner, safer power
sources?</span><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "serif";" lang="EN-CA"></span></p><p class="yiv1258670775MsoNormal" style=""><b><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "serif"; color: rgb(79, 129, 189);">Our Conclusion</span></b><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "serif";" lang="EN-CA"></span></p><p class="yiv1258670775MsoNormal" style=""><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "serif";">The McGuinty Government’s plan will <b>double residential hydro bills</b> over the next 20 years to pay for high-cost new nuclear power. This doesn’t make sense. Ontario’s electricity needs can be me<span style="color: rgb(31, 73, 125);">t</span>
at a much lower cost with an integrated combination of energy
conservation and efficiency, water power imports from Quebec, and
small-scale, high-efficiency combined heat and power plants.</span><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "serif";" lang="EN-CA"></span></p><p class="yiv1258670775MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "serif"; color: black;">----------------------------------------------------------------</span><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "serif"; color: black;" lang="EN-CA"></span></p><p class="yiv1258670775MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "serif"; color: black;">---------------------------------------------------------------- </span></p><p class="yiv1258670775MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "serif"; color: black;"> </span></p><p class="yiv1258670775MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size: 18pt; font-family: "serif"; color: rgb(228, 108, 10);">The ON Ministry of Energy is seeking your input and response to their new energy
plan</span></b></p><p class="yiv1258670775MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; vertical-align: top;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "serif"; color: rgb(45, 81, 74);">Review
the gov’t’s proposal here, and then submit your comments by clicking on
the “submit comment” button on the right. Deadline for comments is Jan
7, 2011. All comments will be considered as part of the decision-making
process by the Ministry of Energy.</span></p><p class="yiv1258670775MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "serif";"><a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://www.ebr.gov.on.ca/ERS-WEB-External/displaynoticecontent.do?noticeId=MTExNDIz&statusId=MTY3MTY0&language=en">http://www.ebr.gov.on.ca/ERS-WEB-External/displaynoticecontent.do?noticeId=MTExNDIz&statusId=MTY3MTY0&language=en</a></span></p><br></td></tr></table>