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Ontario coal phase-out did not end ’smog days’
Jennifer Keesmaat, chief planner for the City of Toronto, has been tweeting about how phasing out coal in Ontario has made “smog days” a thing of the past. She also credits the coal phase-out with enabling Toronto to meet its city ...
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It’s official—Ontario’s coal phase-out was all for nothing
Appeared in the Financial Post, January 17, 2017 The federal Liberal government plans to impose a national coal phase-out, based on the same faulty arguments used in Ontario, namely that such a move will yield significant environmental benefits and reduce ...
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Did the Coal Phase-out Reduce Ontario Air Pollution?
In 2005, the province of Ontario began a process that would eventually lead to the phasing out of its coal-fired power plants, the largest of which were the Lambton and Nanticoke facilities in southern Ontario. The rationale for shuttering these plants ...
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Pain Without Gain: Shutting Down Coal-Fired Power Plants Would Hurt Ontario
Coal-fired power plants operated by the Ontario Power Generation Corporation account for about 25% of Ontario's electricity supply. https://www.fraserinstitute.org/sites/default/files/PainWithoutGain.pdf ...