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McGuinty promises Oakville power plant will be safe
Premier Dalton McGuinty tried to reassure protesters that a gas-fired power plant that will sit relatively close to an Oakville school won't pose any safety hazard.
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on Mar 2nd, 2010 and filed under ctv.
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Given that a plant as modern as the one being proposed for Oakville just blew up in Connecticutt, I can understand why people might not take comfort in the Premier’s comments. That blast blew out windows in a hospital 3 km away. Imagine what it would do to a school only 300 metres away. McGuinty’s children don’t go there. If they did I doubt that he would gamble with their lives. Why is he gambling with someone else’s. The place to put the power plant is so obvious its ridiculous. They are closing down the plants at Nanticoke. The transmission lines are already there. The local population would welcome some industry to replace the coal plants. So instead they decide to locate this plant next to homes and schools? The electricity is not for Oakville. 975 MW is enough to power 900,000 homes. Oakville only has about 50,000. The electricity is for Toronto. Imagine the excitement if they proposed to build it in Rosedale!