Premier Doug Ford’s government is preparing to expand gas-fired power plants in Ontario, a move critics say will make the province’s electricity system dirtier and could eventually leave taxpayers on the hook.
The province is currently soliciting bids for additional gas-fired electricity generation, which means either new gas plants get built or existing gas plants get expanded.
It’s poised to be Ontario’s biggest increase in the gas-fired power supply in more than a decade, since the previous Liberal government scrapped two gas plants, in Mississauga and Oakville, at a cost the auditor general pegged at around $1 billion.
Ford’s energy minister, Todd
