🇨🇦 They killed reliable power, now they want a do-over

Thirteen years after Ontario shut down Nanticoke, the political class has discovered that electricity does not run on slogans. The same province that celebrated the demolition of one of North America’s largest coal plants is now floating natural gas, hydrogen and even small modular reactors on the exact same 364-hectare site, already permitted for 3,000 megawatts, because demand could jump 90 per cent by 2050, as reported.

Stephen Lecce is handing out $500,000 for consultations, education and engagement, the usual taxpayer-funded therapy session before admitting the obvious: wind-and-solar vanity projects do not keep an industrial province alive. Nanticoke was sacrificed to climate branding, and now Ontario wants firm baseload power back on the same ground because reality is rude. This is the Trudeau era in miniature: cripple domestic capacity, moralize the decline, then quietly rebuild what ideology destroyed while pretending it is innovation. Sovereignty starts with energy you control, not imported narratives about net zero fantasies.

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