Canada’s Federal Court, in issuing essentially a mild “back to the drawing board” order to Ontario Power Generation regarding one part of its application to build new nuclear reactors at its Darlington generation site, displayed a disappointingly common myopia when…
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Climate change and Ontario electricity: federal court clarifies the choice
Should Ontario electricity stay as clean as it is right now? Right now (six thirty a.m. on Friday May 16), every kilowatt-hour of Ontario grid power comes with a carbon footprint of 38.5 grams; Table 1 on the left gives…
Update: there is no new power generation fuel called “control actions”
Visitors to this blog last weekend may have been puzzled to notice a new fuel category called “control actions” in Tables 1 and 2 in the left sidebar. This strange new category was introduced for the first time beginning on…
Fighting carbon with electricity: bringing the Third Electrification to Ontario
Ontario electricity-related greenhouse gases are at their lowest point in our modern history. This is because most of the electricity fed into our grid comes from zero-carbon sources, the biggest of which by far is nuclear. Nuclear in 2000 represented…
Clean technology: since the 1960s, a vital bedrock Ontario—and Canadian—industry
A Toronto Star piece this morning on “clean tech” jobs jumped out at me when a colleague sent it. The subtitle reads “Clean technology industry, undercut by Dalton McGuinty’s bungled green energy experiment, is poised to take off.” I did…