‘It’s really frustrating to see Toronto’s climate plans completely undermined,’ says one activist.
“By now we’ve learned that Premier Ford and his government treats Toronto as an extension of Queen’s Park, where they feel they can do whatever they want,” she said. “Everything that they do flies in the face of the direction that our city has taken.”that will provide additional peaking power during the hottest summer days to help curb the province’s anticipated electricity shortfall.
“We are already facing an uphill battle to meet looming climate change targets,” she said. “One of the biggest hurdles really is just that the grid is getting dirtier when it’s supposed to be getting cleaner. “For substantially the same amount of fuel, we will be getting more power output from the facility,” he said., as nuclear plants are taken out of service for refurbishment or retirement.
Electrification of the steel smelters in Sault Ste. Marie, is a good example of this, because electric arc furnaces running on Ontario’s grid — 90 per cent of which comes from non-emitting sources — will replace coal-burning coke ovens.the federal government’s plan for a net-zero grid by 2035“Net zero is an ongoing conversation,” he said. “From our perspective, that doesn’t mean we go to absolute zero on the electricity grid.
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