11 June 2008

Tasers 3 - Smog 9500

Remember all the coal-fired generating stations the Ontario Liberals were gonna shut down by 2007?
Air pollution comes from a variety of sources, including motor vehicles, factories and smelters. But the Liberal argument in 2003 about unhealthy air hinged on replacing coal with cleaner sources of energy.

This didn't happen, of course, so it's fair to attribute some of the 9,500 premature deaths cited by the OMA to the continued operation of the Nanticoke, Lambton, Thunder Bay and Atikokan plants.
I wasn't too happy about Dalton's big OHIP lie... but I don't think it kills thousands of people every year.

But don't worry, now he's promised to shut them down by 2014.

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