When electricity was restored to Toronto and elsewhere in Ontario after the ice storm of December 21, nobody cared where or how the current was generated and pushed through the wires to their house. All people cared about was getting…
Category: Bruce Power
Nuclear energy in Ontario: the unmentionable cause of a beautiful effect
Bruce Power, the partnership that runs the Bruce nuclear generating plant, which is North America’s biggest clean energy centre, has been running a series of TV ads pointing up the biggest greenhouse gas reduction in North America since the Kyoto…
Canada’s carbon reductions: giving credit where it’s due
Last week’s minor bombshell pre-announcement from the International Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) that mankind, though carbon dioxide emissions from the use of fossil fuel, is very likely to have played a role in jacking up global temperatures, caused a…
Outstanding environmental and financial performance in Ontario electricity: thanks, and no thanks, to the usual suspects
On the weekend just passed, Ontario’s electricity generation sector turned in perhaps its best performance in decades. The carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions per kilowatt-hour generated—called the CIPK—were as low as I have ever seen them. This was because most of…
The cost of Ontario power: jobs, no jobs, and snowjobs
The mayor of Sarnia, anxious perhaps to divert public attention from the molecular-level particle interactions that provide so many of his constituents with such well-paying employment, loudly proclaimed in 2011 his opposition to sub-atomic-level interactions apropos of Bruce Power’s plan…