Seven years after sparking a major scandal that culminated in last week’s criminal conviction of a former top Dalton McGuinty aide, two gas plants are back on the radar as critics question the need for them. Still under construction, the Napanee Generating Station isn’t slated to begin providing electricity until late this year. It is located next door to an older power plant, which also doesn’t run often. And as much as there was a guilty verdict in that trial, we’re not getting that $1-plus-billion back. Conservative MPP Randy Hillier, whose riding of Lanark-Frontenac-Lennox and Addington includes the Napanee plants, bristles at that logic.

Source: thestar January 25, 2018 10:07 UTC