Re: Greenpeace halts U.S. coal shipment to Ontario

[Jess Coleman <radshoals@airnet.net>]

Sandy Perle wrote:
> 
> The foolowing article is very interesting, in that Greepeace is now
> attacking coal as a source of energy. I suppsoe they'll be attacking
> solar energy next (once the 5 see the ":light"!!!  .. which leaves
> very few alternatives for the future...
> -------------------------
> 
> TORONTO, Oct 6 (Reuter) - Members of the environmental activist group
> Greenpeace on Monday stopped a ship from unloading coal at a suburban
> power plant, saying increased production would lead to harmful levels
> of pollution.
> 
> Draped in a banner reading, ``Coal Kills, Go Solar,'' five people
> chained themselves to a coal hopper used to transport coal into the
> storage facility at the Lakeview Thermal Generating Station in
> Mississauga, just west of Toronto.
> 
> Greenpeace spokeswoman Alison Turner told Reuters the group was
> protesting plans by provincially owned utility Ontario Hydro to
> increase ``the use of coal to replace the energy output lost by the
> closure of seven nuclear reactors this year.''
> 
> Turner said the coal being shipped from Pennsylvania via Ohio would
> allow the generating station to increase its productive capacity by
> about 400 percent.
> 
> Ontario Hydro spokeswoman Lois Wallace confirmed plans to increase
> output at Lakeview, but said the 400 percent figure was misleading
> because the plant had not been running at full capacity before news of
> the reactor shutdowns.
> 
> She said the delay in unloading the coal ``is costing us a lot of
> money,'' and added that Ontario Hydro had no idea what the protesters'
> intentions were.
> 
> Wallace said police had not been called in to deal with the
> protesters.
> 
> The utility announced plans in late August to shut down down seven of
> its 19 nuclear reactors and replace their production with output from
> plants fired by fossil fuels such as oil, gas and coal.
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Sandy et al,

7 CANDU reactors shut down?

How did that happen?  Planned or unplanned?

Jesse H. Coleman

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