Toronto Star: Port Lands gas plant emissions seven times too high for new development at mouth of Don River
Port Lands gas plant emissions seven times too high for new development at mouth of Don River
Nitrogen oxide levels are far above legal limits at the height of a planned development at Villiers Island, an air quality assessment has found. The result could put a capwww.thestar.com
The story mentions the plant's contract was recently extended to 2034. Hopefully the contract will not be renewed, and tower construction can proceed then. It may depend which party rules in Ontario when it's time to renew the contract!Key bit from the above:
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A full read suggests even w/sealed windows/no balconies heights at/above 35s may be imperiled.
I'd have to read the underlying study to more carefully assess the impact. I will. Its attached to the 309 Cherry St. files.
There is also an implication that this may impact the East Harbour site as well.
Link to the 309 Cherry App for purposes of accessing the above study:
Application Details
www.toronto.ca
How many solar panels and wind turbines (the designs have improved) would be needed to replace the gas plant? In addition, the air conditioning to most of the buildings could be attached to the Enwave Deep Lake Water Cooling network.
Key bit from the above:
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A full read suggests even w/sealed windows/no balconies heights at/above 35s may be imperiled.
I'd have to read the underlying study to more carefully assess the impact. I will. Its attached to the 309 Cherry St. files.
There is also an implication that this may impact the East Harbour site as well.
Link to the 309 Cherry App for purposes of accessing the above study:
Application Details
www.toronto.ca
I saw some tweets on this topic and apparently all the buildings in this area have to have non-operable windows because of airport noise?
Hrm, maybe flight path, height and proximity factor in. Nobody in the area is THAT close to flight paths or at that height to really know how bad the noise is. But there’s plenty of towers along the lake near the airport that wouldn’t have been built if that was the case, no?I saw some tweets on this topic and apparently all the buildings in this area have to have non-operable windows because of airport noise?
We could probably just replace the plant with a utility scale battery installation and leverage underutilized transmission capacity at night to charge it. The plant can produce 600 MW.The story mentions the plant's contract was recently extended to 2034. Hopefully the contract will not be renewed, and tower construction can proceed then. It may depend which party rules in Ontario when it's time to renew the contract!
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