Premier Doug Ford’s announcement that his government would keep the aging Pickering nuclear station online represented a regrettable (but unsurprising) continuity with Ontario’s pan-partisan tradition of using the electricity sector to dole out rewards to voters.
The station was originally slated to close in 2014, yet the Liberals delayed closure until 2020. Now, Ford says he’ll keep it online until “at least 2024.” Meanwhile, the majority of the station’s 3,100 megawatt output is surplus and exported — at a loss — to the United States.
So if we don’t need Pickering’s power why would any government continue operating an outdated nuclear station the public doesn’t need?
Shawn-Patrick Stensil – Alternatives Journal – July 13, 2018.
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