This Thursday, Councillor Dianne Saxe will be asking the City’s Infrastructure & Environment Committee to support her call for Toronto Hydro to develop a plan to phase-out the Portlands gas plant on Toronto’s waterfront by 2035.
She is calling for a plan built around aggressively pursuing energy efficiency, renewable energy and energy storage to meet our electricity needs while lowering costs and pollution.
Councillor Saxe’s plan will provide multiple benefits for Toronto and Ontario:
- It will phase-out Toronto’s #1 smog and #1 climate polluter;
- It will lower our electricity bills by avoiding the need for much higher cost new U.S. nuclear reactors and new gas-fired power plants; and
- It will increase our energy security by eliminating our need to import enriched uranium and gas from the U.S. to keep our lights on.
Learn more
- Read Councillor Saxe’s letter to the Infrastructure & Environment Committee.
- Read our report: Toronto’s Electricity Future: Affordable Renewable Energy or U.S. Nuclear & Gas?
What you can do
1. Send a message to Councillor Paula Fletcher (Chair) and all the members of the Infrastructure & Environment Committee urging them to support Councillor Saxe’s request.
2. Consider making an oral or written submission to the Infrastructure & Environment Committee. Click here to request to speak or to submit a written submission.