Ontario Pumped Storage Hydropower Project
who will be responsable for the enviromental clean up?
- Reference Number
- 295
- Text
This project will make rich investors richer and provide no new source of energy at all; it is time-shifting for profit and a handful of jobs. Short-term construction jobs for the vast majority will be sourced from outside the community. Using contaminated land to build a reservoir situated on unstable karst hoping the liner does not leak or rip with 23 million metric tons of weight being added every day and losing that much every night rupturing and contaminating dumping 23 billion litres of water (daily output thats 9200 olympic pools full) ) into a delicate ecosystem threatens drinking water, as well as vibrant recreational and commercial fisheries and tourism, all of which are at risk. This project provides fewer jobs and less tourism than a mini-golf course on a plot of land one-one-hundredth the size would. What benefit does this provide for the community? For that matter, what benefit does this bring to Ontario? Does this bring down prices? No. Does this create clean energy? No. Does this bring investment or people to the community? No; it just makes the rich richer. Battery tech already exists without the environmental risk and can be placed almost anywhere. This land was expropriated from local farmers for the benefit of all Canadians, not so it could later be sold off to make money for the rich. If time-shifting energy is so important, why are the provincial or federal governments not building this project themselves, with $1 trillion in total investment earmarked for nation-building, instead of this private for-profit company? According to the company, TC Energy (TCE) actively states that Ontario needs pumped storage, arguing it is a critical, long-term solution for the province's future energy, yet the government is not willing to build this infrastructure project for our benefit. "Show me the motivation and I will tell you the outcome." After the lake is polluted and the corporation declares bankruptcy, and a great quantity of toothpaste must be put back in the tube I once again ask: who will be responsible for the environmental cleanup? The Ontario government that approved this scheme in the first place—the one that tried to sell off the Greenbelt to private investors before they were caught—or the federal government, the same one that has promised clean drinking water to our Indigenous communities since 1977? Forty-nine years and counting, still no cleanup, still no clean water,. The original deadline for this commitment was March 2021 and these are the people we are supposed to trust with such a delicate environmental project? You must be mad.
- Submitted by
- David Harvey
- Phase
- Planning
- Public Notice
- Public notice - Comments invited on the summary of the Initial Project Description and funding available
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- Date Submitted
- 2026-04-06 - 9:15 PM