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Phase Out Coal and Shut Down Nanticoke Coal Plant by 2011

Ontario Power Generation's Nanticoke coal station is Canada's largest point source of greenhouse gases - over 17 million tonnes in 2005.

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Ontario’s coal-fired power plants pose an enormous threat to the environment and human health. The Nanticoke Power Station is the largest single source of climate-changing greenhouse gas emissions in Canada.

It is also Ontario’s single largest source of nitrogen oxides and mercury that cause smog, as well as other deadly pollutants. The Ontario Medical Association has called air pollution “a public health crisis” that is killing over 5,900 people a year in Ontario. While all political parties have promised to phase out coal in Ontario, there is doubt as to when that could actually happen.

The issue

Solutions

Coal can’t be phased out in the near term unless a modern energy plan is adopted and nuclear and coal are eliminated for good.

The Problem

With the impacts of coal pollution on health and the environment mounting cumulatively, it is critical that coal-fired plants be shut down as early as possible.