By the time we heard of the Bio-En proposal they had already invested a lot of money in site plans, approvals, and getting an electrical hookup from the Ontario Power Authority, not to mention they already owned the land. Any move would have required starting back at the beginning, paying anew for plans, approvals and the hookup, as well as buying the land. I think that only an order from the MOE would have been able to move the biogas plant; certainly there was no money in it for Bio-En.

About the only thing we can accuse Mayor Cowan of is his false assurances that he could influence the location of the plant.

–Bob.

–Bob.

It would amend the city and county charter “to require the city to transition from fossil fuels to clean, non-nuclear, sustainable energy production at affordable rates.” With this vote, if successful, the city will abandon the use of any energy afforded by coal, natural gas, and, as noted, nuclear power.

Electricity is measured in kilowatts-hours. America’s 104 commercial nuclear power reactors now provide about 20% of its electricity. More than 50% is produced primarily by 400-plus coal-fired “fossil fuel” producers of electricity, providing more than 2,000 billion kilowatt-hours of reliable energy. Hydroelectric and gas-powered plants constitute the rest of the mix.

Solar and wind power constitute about 1% of the electrical energy produced from these two inefficient, impractical, and spectacularly idiotic sources of power.

What the citizens of San Francisco and, for that matter, the rest of the nation, don’t understand is that even in the best locations, wind turbines produce power only about one-third of the time. When they cease to produce sufficient electrical power, a back-up coal-fired or nuclear plant has to be in place to meet the immediate needs of energy consumers. Comparably, solar power depends on the sun shining. Occasionally clouds obscure the sun. At night, it is shining somewhere else on Earth.
Keep up the good work