Careless environmental ideology was a root cause of the blackout that cut off power to tens of thousands of Toronto homes, businesses, and institutions for several hours during rush hour on Monday this week.
Although a full technical report on the event is not yet available, it is clear that some transformer station equipment at the Manby transformer station in west Toronto failed. Transmission planning experts have long identified a failure at Manby as a known risk to the reliability of Toronto’s electricity supply. Three years ago, the Ontario Power Authority published a transmission plan for the province that included a detailed scenario analysis for a failure at Manby almost identical to Monday’s event. Unfortunately, that transmission plan got shelved, replaced by government directives to support more wind and solar generators.
Transmission experts have also long recognized that the power transmission network upon which Toronto depends is the most vulnerable to blackouts of the type experienced on Monday of any major financial centre in North America. Toronto’s special weakness is its lack of local transmission system redundancy.
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The only “redundancy” that Toronto is overflowing with is green activists, political/union hacks and eggregiously self-interested and dim-witted councilors. Our community is not being served by these incompetent twits.
Much as I love a good rant against the greenies this is one time when such a rant is not warranted. The truth is that Ontario has fallen in love with high paying government jobs so much that the money that should have be spent on infrastructure is being spent on wages, benefits and pensions for government employees.
The staggering incompetence of the corrupt provincial Liberals will hurt the people of Ontario for years to come, yet there are enough very nasty selfish people who will demonize any opposition to crooked Liberals. And voters, like lambs to slaughter, believe them. Discouraging, especially since local government’s across North America are run by incompetents who still believe in the failed policies of big government socialism. There’s no escape.