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Originally Posted by acottawa
Which include the cost of massive feed-in tariffs for solar power that generates negligible amounts of electricity, the cost of replacing coal plants that were pretty much mothballed and only used in emergencies so they could run TV ads, the cost of relocating power plants out of the GTA (where power is needed) to Prescott and Sarnia for election-gimmick reasons, the cost of massive overcapacity in the power system (35TW installed capacity compared to an all-time high usage of 27TW) and the cost of doubling down on nuclear power when most of the rest of the developed world is phasing it out.
We might be paying the actual cost, but we're not paying what it should cost to have a well-managed power system in Ontario.
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Not sure about anything else you said, but if you ignore politics and fear-mongering nuclear is the way to go for electricity. As long as the waste is properly disposed, there should be no reason to fear disaster here in Ontario. We don't have the same magnitude earthquakes a place like Japan has, and we operate safely, unlike the Soviets were doing in Chernobyl. Japan has left most of its reactors offline since Fukushima, and have spent ~30bn on importing energy (
http://www.world-nuclear-news.org/NP-Economic-cost-of-Japans-nuclear-shutdown-1404151.html). Let's use the plants we have, especially considering they also reduce our carbon output
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