Ontario's Dalton McGuinty government exposed for corruption on granting a monopoly to nuclear energy interests

by Jack Gibbons

	Dalton James Patrick McGuinty.

Ontario's Energy Minister Gerry Phillips has announced that the Government of Ontario has decided to give nuclear power companies a monopoly to supply up to 72% of Ontario's electricity demand.

Nuclear power is the highest-cost, least reliable and least energy efficient electricity supply source. This decision essentially does an end run around the government's promise to consider all supply sources equally in an integrated plan.

Instead of reserving up to 72% of Ontario's electricity market for nuclear power, the Government of Ontario should allow all energy options to compete fairly to meet our base-load electricity needs.

It doesn't make sense to build new nuclear power plants if we can meet our electricity needs at a lower cost through energy conservation and demand management; wind power; biomass power from our farms; natural gas-fired combined heat and power plants located in our apartment buildings, recreation centres, hospitals, shopping malls and factories; or water power imports from Quebec, Labrador or Manitoba.

About the writer:

Jack Gibbons is the Chairperson of the Ontario Clean Air Alliance.

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