Given the increasing cost of building nuclear plants, is government considering reassessing alternatives to nuclear power?
No. The OPA is acting to undermine the purpose of Ontario Energy Board’s (OEB) economic review of its long-term electricity plan. It has told the Ontario Energy Board that it doesn’t need to re-evaluate its electricity plan, claiming the government has already decided to proceed. Minister Smitherman, in announcing his directive to the OPA to review the IPSP, explicitly stated that they were not considering lowering the amount of nuclear in the plan which means that there is almost no room for the conservation and renewables to grow. The Minister wants it both ways -saying he wants more green but no less nuclear.
