City of Thunder Bay talks local power plant purchase.........really.!

If plans to convert the Thunder Bay Generating Station to natural gas from coal fall through the City of Thunder Bay would look into buying the plant Mayor Keith Hobbs said Tuesday. 

What is the mayor smoking these days is my question.??? 

Maybe you should be running this by the residents/taxpayers first.???

And in literally the same breath mayor Hobbs said...

"The possibility of buying the plant did not come up"...

Does he know what page too be on at any given point in time.???

The replacement cost for the plant would be $1-2 billion....so states Bill Mauro M.P.P. 

And who does not believe every word that comes from his lips.???

Billy's costs/figures and those of "OPG" are not the same....it is his belief that his are more in line with being correct vs. That of "OPG"....well it is great to know that we can count on our M.P.P. 

To set then all straight....said with tongue in cheek.!!!

Texas Utilities who was really big in the coal business pulled out of a partnership deal with Northwest Energy Association back in the mid-1990s....to purchase both the Atikokan and Thunder Bay plants for $200 Million $$$$....which they were told would have to be converted over to natural gas at some point in time.....therefore the reason for Texas Utilities literally running for the border.!!!

I say to mayor Hobbs and the balance of our city council and administration....please turn your full attention to the overwhelming problems this city faces in the here and now already....and focus,focus,focus if you actually can....which I have serious reservations about the mayor actually doing based upon his many idle promises to date which have produced nothing tangible as well his lack luster overall performance and many a Faux Pa FacePalm moments.

But he has attended over 1,900 events in the year 2011 and is looking to top that number in 2012.
"OMG"...2 more years of this clown....how very fortunate are we I ask.???

So when is it exactly that Thunder Bay and Northwestern Ontario will be seeing the 55,000 new jobs you stated a short time ago were coming to the region.???