The Gas Plant Scandal

I wonder how much was incompetence and how much was corruption. Because when you spend a billion dollar the cracks are very absorbent and hard to detect.

As I understand it the liberal government made the brave decision to shut down coal. The conservatives would not have done this but I expect the NDP would have been all for. Coal is a cheap way to produce power, BTU per dollar its great. However everything else is bad, mercury pollution alone is reason enough to shut down these killers. Even if you can scrub the heavy metals its still a green house gas gasbag. There is another element to power that is never discussed. Ontario could buy all its power from green clean Manitoba or Quebec at a reasonable rate. Why not, I wonder why?
Nevertheless we are here today with a billion dollar bill. You cant really fault the government, the area was zoned for a power plant. If you look at a Map could there be a better place to put it? NIMBY reared its ugly head and it cost.
NIMBY is a force we must put in its place. Sometimes NIMBY loses when it should win. The airport train is a case in point. To many interests going after the same goal, and half of them pushing for failure.

Whats the solution, for Ontario its going back to Ontario Hydro, a stupid monolith that gave Ontario the best power prices in the world despite its elephant steps.