High operating costs mean phase-out would save $850 million per year.
from the Ontario Clean Air Alliance
The Pickering A Nuclear Station is the highest cost nuclear plant in North America while the Pickering B Station is the 5th highest cost. The good news is that the operating licences for the aging Pickering reactors expire in 2014 and 2015. Phasing out these high-cost reactors would reduce our electricity bills by $850 million per year or 5 percent.
But despite these potential savings, Ontario Power Generation (OPG) is seeking permission from the Canadian Nuclear Safety Commission and Premier Wynne to spend hundreds of millions of dollars to extend the operating lives of these aging high-cost reactors for another four to six years. This doesn’t make sense since Ontario’s demand for electricity is falling and we have much lower cost options to keep our lights on (eg, energy efficiency investments and hydro-electric imports from Quebec).
Premier Wynne must step in and save Ontarians close to a billion dollars a year by ordering the phase-out of the Pickering reactors ASAP.
Click here to tell the Premier that we must avoid another electricity expenditure fiasco – don’t waste our hard-earned money rebuilding this aging and outdated facility!
Visit the OCAA website to modify and sign this letter to Premier Kathleen Wynne.
Dear Premier Wynne,
Spending hundreds of millions of dollars rebuilding the aging Pickering Nuclear Station would be a total waste of my hard-earned money. In fact, phasing out this high-cost electricity source could save our province $850 million a year and cut our electricity bills by as much as five percent. We have cheaper and safer options for keeping our lights on, including improved energy efficiency and hydro power imports from Quebec. With electricity demand falling, there is little reason to waste huge sums of money on this old and outdated facility. I urge you to order Ontario Power Generation to start preparing to phase out the Pickering Station ASAP. Ontario must avoid another electricity expenditure fiasco!
Sincerely,
About Ontario Clean Air Alliance
The Ontario Clean Air Alliance (OCAA) is a coalition of individuals and approximately 90 organizations (health and environmental organizations, faith communities, municipalities, utilities, unions and corporations) that represent over six million Ontarians. We were established in 1997 to achieve the phase-out of Ontario’s dirty coal-fired power plants and to move Ontario towards a renewable electricity future.
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