Ontario should show…

Ontario should show leadership in the following

1. Developing solar and wind energy - its easy and its free.

2. Develop the Provinces surplus hydro-electric potential. See, the 1984  report -"Water Quantity Resources of Ontario" ISBN 0-7743-9063-8. 21: Electric Power - Pages 60 and 61- Hydroelectric Power. The report states "The total hydroelectricity generating capacity of the Province, both existing and undeveloped, is estimated to be about 21,000 Megawatts (MW). Up to the end of 1982, 7174 MW of generating capacity had been installed - 34% of the total estimated capacity." I believe that, as of 2016, about 60% of Ontario's hydroelectricity potential has not been developed. 3. Hydro began to fade in the 1970s, as the building of 20 nuclear reactors - in Pickering, Bruce and Darlington Power Stations took over. Most of the Ontario reactors have, as of Dec. 2016, been through their life cycles. One of the greatest challenges they pose, to the next generation, who know absolutely nothing about their Nuclear  inheritance, is that the system must begin to inform them.

4. The Province should require special courses on Nuclear Power (and how to 'baby sit' old reactors), in all High Schools in the Province. That should begin ASAP.

5. All fossil fuel plants should have a requirement of 'no stack gases to the atmosphere'. If coal, oil and gas can clean the emissions or direct them to the underground, then, that would be most acceptable.

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