{"id":1964,"date":"2014-11-23T09:50:04","date_gmt":"2014-11-23T14:50:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=1964"},"modified":"2014-11-23T09:50:04","modified_gmt":"2014-11-23T14:50:04","slug":"ontario-dont-dump-our-money-into-rebuilding-an-outdated-power-station-mike-schreiner","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=1964","title":{"rendered":"Ontario, Don&#8217;t Dump Our Money Into Rebuilding an Outdated Power Station\u00a0|\u00a0Mike Schreiner"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.ca\/mike-schreiner\/ontario-nuclear-station_b_6194710.html\">Ontario, Don&#8217;t Dump Our Money Into Rebuilding an Outdated Power Station\u00a0|\u00a0Mike Schreiner<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"box-sizing: border-box; direction: ltr; font-family: inherit; font-weight: normal; font-size: 1em; line-height: 1.6; text-rendering: optimizelegibility; vertical-align: baseline; font: normal normal normal 15px\/21px Georgia, Century, Times, serif; color: #333333; padding: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 15px 0px; border: 0px initial initial;\">The Ontario government has a decision to make: Raise your electricity bill to rebuild the Darlington Nuclear Station or lower your bill with water power from Quebec.<\/p>\n<p style=\"box-sizing: border-box; direction: ltr; font-family: inherit; font-weight: normal; font-size: 1em; line-height: 1.6; text-rendering: optimizelegibility; vertical-align: baseline; font: normal normal normal 15px\/21px Georgia, Century, Times, serif; color: #333333; padding: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 15px 0px; border: 0px initial initial;\">The historic\u00a0<a style=\"box-sizing: border-box; color: #0088c3; text-decoration: none; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; padding: 0px; margin: 0px; border: 0px initial initial;\" href=\"http:\/\/news.ontario.ca\/opo\/en\/2014\/11\/agreements-reached-at-quebec-ontario-joint-meeting-of-cabinet-ministers.html\" target=\"_hplink\">Memorandum of Understanding<\/a>\u00a0signed at a joint Quebec-Ontario cabinet meeting on Friday opens the door to for electricity imports that will save you money.<\/p>\n<p style=\"box-sizing: border-box; direction: ltr; font-family: inherit; font-weight: normal; font-size: 1em; line-height: 1.6; text-rendering: optimizelegibility; vertical-align: baseline; font: normal normal normal 15px\/21px Georgia, Century, Times, serif; color: #333333; padding: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 15px 0px; border: 0px initial initial;\">The average household can save between\u00a0<a style=\"box-sizing: border-box; color: #0088c3; text-decoration: none; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; padding: 0px; margin: 0px; border: 0px initial initial;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.cleanairalliance.org\/files\/ltep-review.pdf\" target=\"_hplink\">$52 and $192 per year<\/a>\u00a0if Ontario cancels the Darlington Nuclear Rebuild and instead signs a power deal for existing Quebec water power. The province could save between $700 million and $2.6 billion per year &#8212; a whopping $52 billion over 20 years.<\/p>\n<p style=\"box-sizing: border-box; direction: ltr; font-family: inherit; font-weight: normal; font-size: 1em; line-height: 1.6; text-rendering: optimizelegibility; vertical-align: baseline; font: normal normal normal 15px\/21px Georgia, Century, Times, serif; color: #333333; padding: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 15px 0px; border: 0px initial initial;\">Quebec\u00a0<a style=\"box-sizing: border-box; color: #0088c3; text-decoration: none; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; padding: 0px; margin: 0px; border: 0px initial initial;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.montrealgazette.com\/technology\/Editorial+Energy+sales+Ontario+could+mutually+profitable\/10141032\/story.html\" target=\"_hplink\">Premier Phillippe Couillard<\/a>\u00a0has made it clear that his province has surplus electricity, and Quebec is eager to sell it to Ontario, especially since U.S. demand for Quebec power is declining.<\/p>\n<p style=\"box-sizing: border-box; direction: ltr; font-family: inherit; font-weight: normal; font-size: 1em; line-height: 1.6; text-rendering: optimizelegibility; vertical-align: baseline; font: normal normal normal 15px\/21px Georgia, Century, Times, serif; color: #333333; padding: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 15px 0px; border: 0px initial initial;\">&#8230;click on the above link to read the rest of the article&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ontario, Don&#8217;t Dump Our Money Into Rebuilding an Outdated Power Station\u00a0|\u00a0Mike Schreiner. The Ontario government has a decision to make: Raise your electricity bill to rebuild the Darlington Nuclear Station or lower your bill with water power from Quebec. The historic\u00a0Memorandum of Understanding\u00a0signed at a joint Quebec-Ontario cabinet meeting on Friday opens the door to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[1381,1380,579,1378,1379],"class_list":["post-1964","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-energy-2","tag-darlington","tag-hydroelectric","tag-nuclear-power","tag-ontario","tag-quebec"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1964","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1964"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1964\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1965,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1964\/revisions\/1965"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1964"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1964"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1964"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}