Smoke rises from the Colstrip Steam Electric Station, a coal burning power plant in Colstrip, Mont. ( Matt Brown / AP )Premier Kathleen Wynne is defending Hydro One’s takeover of an American utility that owns a coal plant after years of Liberal boasting that Ontario has banned the plants to cut pollution and greenhouse gases. company that has a small minority share in a coal plant,” Wynne said Friday in Ottawa. “It wouldn’t even be legal in Ontario,” he said of the Avista plant. The power plant is one of the largest employers in Colstrip and is located near a coal mine, which supplies it with fuel.

Source: thestar July 21, 2017 20:23 UTC