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Apr 25, 2022 • 25 tweets • 8 min read
Our analysis of materials released by @IESO_Tweets in response to our Freedom of Information Request
Summary 1. Thirty-two Ontario municipalities, representing almost 60% of Ontario’s population, have asked @ONgov to phase-out gas-fired electricity generation. 1/
#onpoli2. According to Ontario’s Independent Electricity System Operator’s (IESO) October 7, 2021 (misleading) report,Decarbonization and Ontario’s Electricity System, phasing-out gas power by 2030 would raise residential electricity bills by 60% [page 1].
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Apr 16, 2022 • 14 tweets • 4 min read
As reported in today’s @globeandmail, ... we now know that the Independent Electricity System Operator (IESO) fully understood that its report on the feasibility of a gas-fired power phase-out was highly misleading and skewed to present a frightening worst-case scenario.
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In the 400 pages of material released by the @IESO_Tweets in response to our FOI request, we discovered that the agency actually modeled three potential scenarios for phasing out gas.
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Feb 6, 2022 • 5 tweets • 1 min read
We need two things to deal with rapidly worsening climate change: speed and impact. Nuclear power can deliver neither. 🧵1/
The one thing new nuclear projects are known for is costly delays and problems. We have waited far too long to take effective action on climate change. We simply can’t afford to wait for snail-like nuclear projects to address the problem. 2/
