Archive for Portlands development

Monica Oscilowski prepared this 8-minute video for the Toronto Energy Coalition, the coalition working to stop the Portlands power plant. Click it to watch.

The second open house for the natural gas pipeline expansion to feed the Portlands power plant will be held on Wednesday.

Wednesday, 2006 October 11 at 6pm to 9pm.
Toronto Fire Academy, 895 Eastern Ave.  Free.
(east of Leslie, south side)

The proposed route has been altered but basically the idea is the same.  We’re investing money to expand the pipe to feed the plant nobody wants.  The costs will be covered on your gas bill.

For more information, go to http://biketoronto.ca/topic/show/564.htm

On Monday, the Portlands Energy Centre announced that they had signed a deal with the Province to begin construction of the 550 MW power plant.  Transcanada issued its own press release as well.  This was widely reported in the Toronto Star, The Globe and Mail, the Toronto Sun, the National Post and others.     Read more »

There are serious environmental and health concerns related to the Portlands power plant. As part of my work for TEC (Toronto Energy Coalition, the citizen’s group working to stop the Portlands plant), I wrote a letter and sent it to Minister Broten, outlining these concerns, and requesting that the plant be elevated to a full Environmental Assessment. I also wrote a simpler version, which TEC is urging citizens to copy and send to the Minister as well.

A couple of days ago, I received a response from the Minister’s office,     Read more »

I’d like to thank Steve Downie, Susan Crofts and Dave Toderick for alerting me to the Toronto Star article about the sale of Canadian flow batteries to an Irish wind-power developer to even out the variations in wind electricity generation.  This is exciting news, and supports what the Realistic Energy Plan for Toronto, which I coauthored, proposed.     Read more »