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Ontario Cleans Its Hands Of Coal
Read more at Ontario Cleans Its Hands Of Coal | CleanTechnica
Maybe they could put up another nuclear plant and a few dozen GW of wind to end natural gas too.
The Ontario government announced on Friday that it will introduce legislation next week to ban the burning of coal and the building of new coal plants. The Canadian province expects to have completely outgrown coal by 2014, thanks to a combination of efficiency, nuclear, natural gas and an ambitious renewables program and to save C$4.4 billion per year (US $4.2 billion) in externalities like health costs, from having done so.
The province will end this year on a symbolic high-note as well, completing the conversion of its enormous Nanticoke Generation Station to run on biomass. The coal plant was at one point the single-biggest source of greenhouse gas emissions in Canada, providing 4 GW of baseline electricity. Half its generating units have been decommissioned in recent years, and the station now operates as a peaker plant idling for most of the day, and only ramping up in times of high electricity demand.
Read more at Ontario Cleans Its Hands Of Coal | CleanTechnica
Maybe they could put up another nuclear plant and a few dozen GW of wind to end natural gas too.