Permit issued for Mississauga power plant
Posted June 6, 2011 5:18 pm.
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A gas-fired power plant will be built just west of Sherway Gardens – to the dismay of a group of Mississauga residents.
“These plants produce a lot of toxic pollution, including sulphor oxides and nitrogen oxides, which cause acid rain. The discharge from them is going to blow straight into residential areas,” Dr Boyd Upper told CityNews.
Eastern Power Ltd. is poised to develop the Greenfield South Power Plant along with the Greenfield South Power Corporation. The 280-megawatt station will be located at 2315 Loreland Ave – a site that backs on to Etobicoke Creek.
The Ontario Municipal Board first approved the project in 2007, but many who live in the area say the area is environmentally sensitive.
“They had not done anything for six years and everyone assumed that the project was dead,” Upper said, adding he’s been fighting gas plants in the areas since 2000 – and he’s not going to stop now.
Mayor Hazel McCallion is also against the power plant.
“We have been opposing this power plant since 2004,” McCallion said. The city of Mississauga said the decision to put the power plant near the mall didn’t fit their zoning by-laws, and brought the decision to the Ontario Municipal Board. The OMB ruled against the city.
Now, McCallion says, the Ontario government is the only one that can stop the power plant.
In October, the province killed plans to build a similar – but much larger – 900-megawatt gas-fired power plant in Oakville after residents complained.
And in 2008, the Ontario government cancelled plans to build an electricity plant in Lakeview.
