Despite having declared a climate emergency and called for a phase-out of natural gas-fired electricity generation, Windsor city council has now endorsed the construction of two new gas plants.
The decision came Monday night after a half-dozen citizen deputations urging the council to reject the new gas power plants. They will exacerbate climate change, increase local pollution levels and end up costing more, the intervenors said.
“This is bad for health, bad for climate and a short-sighted financial decision,” said Kiemia Rezagian, another member of the local Youth Climate Council. The trick will be ensuring the increased emissions from new electricity will be more than cancelled out by greater reductions from getting gas-guzzlers off the roads and pulling furnaces out of basements.
“There are feasible, cost-effective alternatives to increasing gas-fired electricity generation without increasing greenhouse gas pollution,” reads the another motion passed in 2020, in which council asked the province to “develop and implement a plan to phase-out all gas-fired electricity generation by 2030 to help Ontario and the City of Windsor meet their climate targets.”
The project would add two new gas-fired turbines and 100 megawatts of generation capacity to the current 92 megawatts produced in Windsor. They will be “hydrogen ready,” the company said, with the ability to use a fuel mix of up to 35 per cent hydrogen upon opening, and 100 per cent hydrogen by 2030.
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