The Power Workers’ Union (…

The Power Workers’ Union (“PWU”) represents a large portion of the employees working in Ontario’s electricity industry.

The PWU appreciates the opportunity to provide input on the Ministry of the Environment, Conservation and Parks’ proposed regulation entitled, “Making polluters accountable: Industrial Emission Performance Standards”. The PWU strongly believes in reducing greenhouse gas emissions, and that an industrial emission performance standard is a significant opportunity to achieve this goal. Specifically, our submission letter comments on the performance standard for fossil-based electricity production contained in Table 2 of the draft proposal.

The PWU suggests that if the long-term view of reducing greenhouse gas emissions while addressing the needs of Ontario’s industrial sector is a provincial policy objective, the performance standard for fossil-based electricity must be more stringent. We believe this is consistent with and supportive of Ontario’s objective of supplying low-cost, reliable and low greenhouse gas emitting electricity. We are respectfully submitting our detailed observations and recommendations.

We hope you will find the PWU’s comments useful.

Yours very truly,

Mel Hyatt
President
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