Ontario’s new energy minister says natural gas plants must stay ‘to help fuel our economy’
June 13, 2024
Ontario’s new energy minister says the fast-growing province can’t afford an “ideological” push to wean its electricity system off fossil fuels even as concerns about climate change mount.
“I cannot underscore this enough,” Stephen Lecce said Thursday at the Darlington nuclear plant where the next phase of construction is beginning on a small modular reactor.
“We will not pursue an ideological path that will deny some forms of energy when we need all of them to help fuel our economy.”
