It’s as if the Ford government is running through the hallway with scissors on the energy file.
Even Germany, as it was irresponsibly closing nuclear plants, realized it would need natural gas to back up its increasing reliance on wind and solar energy.The idea Ontario would willfully abandon natural gas, which burns at half the carbon dioxide intensity of coal in an electricity grid that is already 94% free of greenhouse gas emissions, because nuclear and hydro power don’t produce them — is alarming.
As late as July, the Ford government was insisting it would shut down the Pickering nuclear station in 2025 as scheduled, while forging ahead with the idea of eliminating natural gas from the electricity grid.
Last week, the Ford government did an about face on shutting down the Pickering nuclear station in 2025, which provides 14% of Ontario’s electricity.— but in reality, it’s buying time to consider refurbishing it in order to keep it operating for another 30 years.Article content What appears to have spooked Premier Doug Ford and the Progressive Conservatives about closing Pickering was finding out that doing so would mean increasing the use of natural gas to power Ontario’s electricity system.
The reason for that is the wind doesn’t always blow, the sun doesn’t always shine and we don’t yet have batteries capable of storing energy in sufficient amounts to power modern, industrialized economies, like the one we have in Ontario.
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