The biomass receiving, handling and storage systems at the Atikokan OPG plant. Explosion vents are visible on each silo, as well as in key locations in the material handling systems. Photo courtesy OPG.
When the Ontario government passed legislation almost 20 years ago to discontinue the use of coal as a generator of electricity, one of Ontario Power Generation (OPG)’s plants was given a new lease on life. Instead of being decommissioned with the other coal-fired plants, in 2014, the Atikokan, Ont., generating station became North America’s first plant to be converted from coal to biomass.
Built in 1985, the plant was still considered fairly new with plenty of service life remaining, prompting the provincial government to recommission it as a provider of an alternative and cleaner power.
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While the residents of South Bruce and Ignace Ontario fight against the Nuclear Waste Management Organization’s (NWMO) plans to bury 58,000 tonnes of high-level nuclear waste in one of their communities – the NWMO has published it’s new strategic plan. “The next five years will see the NWMO move from an organisation that is planning to build a repository to one that is implementing that plan, as we anticipate selecting a single, preferred site for Canada’s plan in 2023”, that document says.
It seems the NWMO has overlooked it’s own words, that the plan to build and operate its Deep Geological Repository “will only proceed in an area with informed and willing hosts, where the municipality, First Nation and Métis communities, and others in the area are working together to implement it”.