{"id":2602,"date":"2010-10-04T08:43:12","date_gmt":"2010-10-04T12:43:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/2010\/10\/ontario-shutting-down-all-coal-plants-by-2014.html"},"modified":"2010-10-04T08:43:12","modified_gmt":"2010-10-04T12:43:12","slug":"ontario-shutting-down-all-coal-plants-by-2014","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/2010\/10\/ontario-shutting-down-all-coal-plants-by-2014.html","title":{"rendered":"Ontario shutting down all coal plants by 2014"},"content":{"rendered":"<a href=\"http:\/\/news.ontario.ca\/mei\/en\/2010\/10\/moving-ontario-from-dirty-coal-to-a-clean-energy-future.html\">\n<img decoding=\"async\" style=\"float:right;border:none;\"   src=\"http:\/\/news.ontario.ca\/images\/ontario_logo.gif\"\n><\/a>\nAccording to\n<a href=\"http:\/\/news.ontario.ca\/mei\/en\/2010\/10\/moving-ontario-from-dirty-coal-to-a-clean-energy-future.html\">\nthe province of Ontario<\/a>:\n<blockquote>\nOntario families will breathe cleaner air after four additional dirty coal-fired units were permanently shut down, reducing smog-producing coal generating capacity by 40 per cent since 2003.\n<p>\nToday&#8217;s closing of two of eight units at Nanticoke and two of four units at the Lambton plant are part of Ontario&#8217;s plan to phase out dirty coal-fired generation by 2014 and replace it with wind, solar and other cleaner energy sources.\n<\/blockquote>\nHm, isn&#8217;t Ontario mostly north of Buffalo,\nwhere\n<a href=\"\/blog\/2010\/09\/solar-companies-booming-in-buffalo.html\">solar companies are booming<\/a>\nand <a href=\"\/blog\/2010\/09\/if-its-sunny-enough-in-buffalo.html.html\">U. Buffalo is building a solar array at its entrance?<\/a>\nAnd isn&#8217;t Toronto north of Buffalo, well more than a thousand miles north of here?\nTell me again why south Georgia can&#8217;t do solar?\nThe solar panels on my workshop say we can.\n<p>\n-jsq\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"According to the province of Ontario: Ontario families will breathe cleaner air after four additional dirty coal-fired units were permanently shut down, reducing smog-producing coal generating capacity by 40 per cent since 2003. Today&#8217;s closing of two of eight units at Nanticoke and two of four units at the Lambton plant are part of Ontario&#8217;s [&hellip;]","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[141,216,16,32,23,24,36],"tags":[8779,8814,2043,8753,5352,5351,5350,5353,8714,8716],"class_list":["post-2602","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-co2","category-coal","category-environment","category-pollution","category-renewable-energy","category-solar","category-wind","tag-air","tag-buffalo","tag-clean","tag-coal","tag-lambton","tag-nanticoke","tag-ontario","tag-smog","tag-solar","tag-wind"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p585fK-FY","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2602","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2602"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2602\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2602"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2602"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2602"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}