Press Release: The New Democratic Party (NDP) September 30, 2007
OTTAWA - This morning at the Green Door Restaurant, Ontario NDP Leader Howard Hampton alongside Ottawa Area NDP Candidates Will Murray, Andrée
Germain, Edelweiss D'Andrea, Ric Dagenais and Lynn Hamilton, outlined the NDP's plan to meet Ontario's electricity needs with an aggressive approach to renewables, energy efficiency and conservation. Under the NDP's plan, there would be no new $40 billion nuclear megascheme, and no more smog and greenhouse gases from the Nanticoke coal plant.
"Our plan means shifting Ontario towards a greener electricity supply mix and establishing a solid foundation for reliable, affordable energy. That means giving the green light to green power, energy efficiency and conservation, and the red light to the Nanticoke coal plant by 2011 and new nuclear power," said Hampton.
Highlights of the plan include:
* Aggressive energy efficiency, conservation and demand management, to reduce consumption and save people money.
* A significant boost in clean, renewable electricity such as wind, solar and water power.
* A significant expansion of industrial cogeneration facilities through the appointment of a long-delayed cogeneration facilitator and enhanced incentives to industrial co-generation plants.
* Coal phase-out.
* No new nuclear plants.
* Greater accountability.
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