Environmentalists are urging the province to abandon its plans for a $13 billion refurbishment of four nuclear reactors at the Darlington generating station east of Toronto.
The groups want the government to instead import more electricity from Quebec.
The Ontario Clean Air Alliance says every nuclear project in Ontario’s history has gone massively over budget and taxpayers will end up on the hook.
Alliance president Jack Gibbons says even if the project comes in on budget, the cost to taxpayers of maintaining more than 2,200 jobs at Darlington would work out to nearly $6 million per job.
Greenpeace Canada says refurbishing Darlington’s aging reactors is not worth the health and safety risks posed by nuclear power generation.
(The Canadian Press)