Generating electricity using…

Generating electricity using nuclear power plants is expensive, dirty, and hinders the development of a robust power grid.

We must begin the process of decommissioning immediately. We will still have radioactive waste coming out of the plants for generations. Funnelling more and more funds into aging plants is good money thrown after bad.

Although I disagree that nuclear power generation is clean, I will grant you that small portion of the "green" argument. In no way, however, is the rest of the radioactive material lifecycle clean or safe. Mining, processing, and disposing of nuclear material is filthy and dangerous.

Centralized power generation leaves the entire grid at risk. If we invested, rather, in publicly owned, distributed, renewable power generation, few people are inconvenienced or endangered by a plant failure.

And delivery charges on my hydro bill speak for themselves. I'm paying for wasted energy as it dissipates along the route from southern to eastern Ontario.

Please look to the future and bring citizens of this province the clean, reliable energy we all deserve.

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