Ontario Urged to Ditch $13-billion Darlington Nuclear Rebuild

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The National Post reported that environmentalists are urging the Ontario government to abandon plans for a $13-billion refurbishment of four nuclear reactors

The National Post reported that environmentalists are urging theĀ Ontario government to abandon plans for a $13-billion refurbishment of four nuclear reactors at the Darlington generating station east of Toronto and instead import more electricity from Quebec.
According to the Ontario Clean Air Allianceā€™s Hack Gibbons:

Every single nuclear project in Ontarioā€™s history has gone massively over budget by two and a half times. OPG says this project will cost $12.9 billion, but if history repeats itself it will be $32 billion.

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