To whom it may concern, …

To whom it may concern,

Fighting climate change and reducing our environmental footprint must be top priorities in Ontario’s next long-term energy plan (LTEP).

The next LTEP should therefore make conservation and efficiency the first priority for all energy decisions.

Also, Ontario’s next LTEP needs to ensure there are a full and fair comparisons of the total costs of nuclear energy with renewable energy resources: the cost of renewables keeps declining, while the cost of nuclear energy keeps going up.

For example, almost all of Pickering nuclear station’s output is surplus and exported to Michigan at a loss.  This is driving up energy costs.  And yet earlier this year the government announced they would keep operating Pickering until 2024, going back on their promise to close it between 2017 and 2020.

It's time to make conservation and climate action, not politics, the drivers of Ontario's long-term energy plan.

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