Ontario Should Rethink Coal Opposition, Power Agency Head Says

Ontario needs to reconsider its resistance to coal as an energy source with the government pledging to phase out coal-fired power plants by 2007, the head of the new provincial power authority said.

“I don’t see that coal is necessarily ruled out providing it can be used in a more environmentally acceptable format than the present technology allows,” Jan Carr, appointed to lead the Ontario Power Authority two weeks ago, said at a conference in Toronto.

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