Ontario’s last coal-fired plant reduced to rubble in carefully planned effort

Located on Mission Island on the shores of Lake Superior, the Thunder Bay generation station was the last of four plants that were closed and demolished as part of Ontario’s phase-out of coal-fired electricity generation. The others were Lakeview, Nanticoke and Lambton.

After a year of planning and two years of carefully staged remediation and demolition, which included three separate implosions, Ontario’s last coal-fired generating plant is gone. Mississauga, Ont.-based York1 is in the very final stages of the site cleanup of the former 326-MW three-boiler Ontario Power Generating Station in Thunder Bay. Located on Mission Island … Continue reading Ontario’s last coal-fired plant reduced to rubble in carefully planned effort