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In order to meet our 2030 reduction targets, emissions need to drop 9 per cent every year, instead emissions are increasing because of natural gas generation.

Israeli raids in the West Bank, Canada’s diplomatic crisis with India and a luxury condo now in receivership.

After its proposed upgrade, the Portlands gas plant will produce fewer emissions to generate the same amount of electricity, people were told at a tightly-controlled public meeting Thursday. But operator was mum on whether it would be fired up more often, which would cancel out those efficiencies.

While the province says the gas plants are a “near-term need” necessary “to maintain system reliability,” critics question how often the turbines will be turned on, now that Ontario has entered an electricity crunch.

Taken together, the three new small modular reactors at Darlington and the new full size reactors at Bruce would add nearly 50 per cent more nuclear power to the electricity grid.