The only choice for Electricity in Ontario is clean generation, Isnt it?

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ONTARIO POWER GENERATION IN ONTARIO CANADA (OPG

Introduction

The Ontario government is the sole owner of the public company OPG . OPG generates approximately 70 percent of electricity that is used in Ontario province in Canada . The company mainly focuses on producing electricity and selling it within Ontario and other markets that are interconnected (Epp , 2009 . The generating portfolio

of electricity from OPG in-service capacity five stations that are fossil fuelled , 64 stations of hydroelectric and three stations of nuclear . Two other stations which generate nuclear are owned by OPG and leased out to Bruce power in a long term basis . It is estimated that electricity amounting to 107 .8 Terawatt hours (TWh ) were generated by OPG in 2008 (Epp , 2009 . These methods that are used in generation of electricity by OPG cause a lot of pollution in the environment . This is of great concern due to the climatic change that is being experienced in the world due to global warming (Epp , 2009

Environmental issues of the OPG

In 2008 , OPG was awarded the Weenie award for degradation of the environment . This was caused by its plan of building a deep dump underground near Lake Huron which would be used for storing radio active waste (Thompson , 2008 . This radio active...