Province Releases Energy Plan

The Provincial Government says emissions from the Thunder Bay Generating Station will be cut in half once it
begins burning natural gas instead of coal.
Work to convert the coal-burning units will begin next year and is expected to be completed by the end of 2014.
Thunder Bay-Atikokan MPP Bill Mauro says the plant could have been mothballed instead.
He says the plant’s output will help attract mining operations to the region.
The Atikokan coal-fired plant is being converted to use biomass and is to be completed by 2013.
However, others in Northwestern Ontario are disappointed.
Whitesand First Nation says the Province’s 20-year energy plan makes no mention of Hydro One’s proposed 230,000 volt line between Nipigon and
Pickle Lake.