The provincial government recently reminded the city of Port Moody it intends to close the Burrard Thermal power plant next spring. I hope the city will object to such a foolhardy decision.
Burrard Thermal is a large, natural gas-fired plant with a 912 megawatt (MW) capacity that could produce up to 7% of the electricity generated by BC Hydro. In the late 1990s, the plant was running full-out to produce electricity for the California market during the U.S.’s Enron-engineered electricity “shortage.”
Photo: ‘Burrard Generating Station’ by Niall Williams licensed under CC BY-SA 2.0