City councillors in Kingston, Ontario, have voted in favour of “blanket municipal support” for new electricity projects, with an amendment to withhold that the support from any projects that use fossil fuels.
“I think it is highly unlikely that we will see any gas plants coming to Kingston, but just to be crystal clear, we put it in writing,” said Deputy Mayor Wendy Stephen, who put forward the amendment.
“Supporting electricity generated through the burning of fossil fuels would really run counter to the direction we’ve chosen for our city.”
The vote was informed by a report prepared by [pdf] Kingston’s commissioner of community services, Paige Agnew, which recommended 12-month blanket support for applications for long-term reliability projects as prescribed by Ontario’s Independent Electricity System Operator (IESO), writes the Kingstonist.
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