For Immediate Release
February 19, 2007

Liberals Back-Track on Emission Abatement

Simcoe – Haldimand-Norfolk-Brant MPP Toby Barrett is questioning why Ontario’s Energy Minister is back-tracking on the idea of pollution-abatement at OPG Nanticoke.

While the McGuinty government campaigned on a promise to close the coal-fired plant by 2007, they have failed to find an energy replacement and have had to break the promise. Minister Duncan is now citing 2014 as the year in which Nanticoke will be closed. Further, on CBC radio this morning, MPP Barrett heard the Minister musing about pumping money into additional pollution-abatement initiatives.

“I wonder if the Minister is taking my advice on this issue,” MPP Barrett questioned. “Since 2003 I have been calling on the government to invest in more scrubbers and pollution abatement equipment – I guess they’ve finally come to the conclusion that there is such a thing as clean air technology.”

Barrett said he is eager to learn more about Duncan’s ideas and proposals for Nanticoke.

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For more information please contact MPP Toby Barrett at: 1-800-903-8629