{"id":38666,"date":"2013-11-23T11:34:49","date_gmt":"2013-11-23T16:34:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/planetsave.com\/?p=38666"},"modified":"2013-11-23T11:34:49","modified_gmt":"2013-11-23T16:34:49","slug":"ontario-may-ban-coal-power-outright","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/planetsave.com\/articles\/ontario-may-ban-coal-power-outright\/","title":{"rendered":"Ontario May Ban Coal Power Outright"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The province of Ontario may soon ban power plants from burning coal. This is an outright ban, nothing less.<\/p>\n<p>According to <a href=\"http:\/\/toronto.ctvnews.ca\/ontario-to-ban-coal-fired-electricity-generation-premier-1.1554222\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">CTV News<\/a>, Ontario Premier Kathleen Wynne, alongside Al Gore, announced the proposed ban, which will be introduced by Monday and take effect in 2014 if passed. Her party (the Liberals) was criticized for being indecisive and having the tendency to delay projects. For example, this ban was proposed and delayed twice in the past, and the construction of two gas power plants was cancelled as a result.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_59279\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-59279\" style=\"width: 570px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/cleantechnica.com\/?attachment_id=59279\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-59279 noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-59279\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/cleantechnica.com\/files\/2013\/11\/image10-570x320.jpg\" width=\"570\" height=\"320\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-59279\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Former U.S. Vice President Al Gore (left), Ontario Premier Kathleen Wynne (centre), and Environmental Defence Executive Director Tim Gray celebrate Ontario as the first jurisdiction in North America to ban coal in Toronto, Thursday, Nov. 21, 2013.<br \/>Image Credit: Environmental Defence.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><center><script type=\"text\/javascript\"><!--\ngoogle_ad_client = \"ca-pub-2198288049716630\";\n\/* CT *\/\ngoogle_ad_slot = \"6377083321\";\ngoogle_ad_width = 468;\ngoogle_ad_height = 60;\n\/\/-->\n<\/script><br \/>\n<script type=\"text\/javascript\"\nsrc=\"http:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/show_ads.js\">\n<\/script><\/center><\/p>\n<p>There are three main costs of coal (regardless of country): the sale price that the mainstream public sees, the subsidies or tax breaks the industry gets (which researchers see), and finally, the big one: the cost of the damage caused.<\/p>\n<p>We live in a world in which everyone affects each other somehow, but without taking responsibility for it. If you buy power from a coal power plant, you fund a plant which causes climate change and pollutes the air, causing lung cancer. There&#8217;s no way around that fact.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/cleantechnica.com\/2011\/02\/17\/cost-of-coal-500-billion-year-in-u-s-harvard-study-finds\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">A Harvard study<\/a> released in 2011 revealed the true cost of coal, putting it at about $500 billion a year in the US. The study set it at two to three times the previously stated price of roughly 9 cents per kWh. That works out to be 18 to 27 cents per kWh. Apart from that, the unquantifiable human costs of lung cancer are even more important than the financial costs.<\/p>\n<p>Human life should come first, not coal industry profits. My main point: Aggressive action <a href=\"http:\/\/cleantechnica.com\/2013\/10\/27\/asheville-nc-votes-transcend-coal\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">to reduce coal power<\/a>&nbsp;usage is necessary.<\/p>\n<p>Note that the legislation has to face opposition before it can pass.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/media.cns-snc.ca\/ontarioelectricity\/ontarioelectricity.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more about Ontario&#8217;s electricity sources here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><em>Follow me on Twitter <a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/Kompulsa\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">@Kompulsa<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The province of Ontario may soon ban power plants from burning coal. This is an outright ban, nothing less. According to CTV News, Ontario Premier Kathleen Wynne, alongside Al Gore, announced the proposed ban, which will be introduced by Monday and take effect in 2014 if passed. 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