{"id":2420,"date":"2007-10-26T12:49:50","date_gmt":"2007-10-26T16:49:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spacingtoronto.ca\/?p=2420"},"modified":"2013-01-21T14:45:49","modified_gmt":"2013-01-21T19:45:49","slug":"hume-takes-swipe-at-port-lands-energy-plant","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/toronto\/2007\/10\/26\/hume-takes-swipe-at-port-lands-energy-plant\/","title":{"rendered":"Hume takes swipe at Portlands energy plant"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Christopher Hume wrote a column today<\/a> on the rise of the Portlands Energy Centre, something the City and local residents fought the province over, but somehow has found a home on Toronto’s soon-to-be revitalized waterfront.<\/p>\n

It is surely disappointing to see how any government, or arm’s length agency for that matter, can say that a 550 megawatt power plant can “fit in” with the planned neighbourhood. We did have a chance to debate this during the recent provincial election, but that never happened because the mainstream media seemed obsessed with religious school funding issue (which never had a chance of passing, even if the Tories got in).<\/p>\n

From Hume’s column<\/a>:<\/p>\n

Welcome to Toronto’s beautiful new revitalized waterfront!<\/p>\n

Complete with parks, public transit and housing for 100,000, it is an urban dream, a veritable city of the future. Designed by some of the world’s leading architects and landscape architects, these new communities will be sustainable, accessible and fully integrated, cosmopolitan even.<\/p>\n

But wait, what’s that monstrous, multi-smokestacked industrial complex now under construction on Unwin Ave. in the heart of the docklands?<\/p>\n

Oh, yes, that would be the Portlands Energy Centre, Premier Dalton McGuinty’s little gift to Toronto. Well, actually, it’s not so little. In fact, it’s a vast and obnoxious, misplaced and inappropriate project that will seriously damage plans for waterfront regeneration in Toronto.<\/p>\n

Of course, McGuinty meant well; he always means well. But, sadly, we don’t live in a perfect world, and there’s only so much the poor man can do.<\/p>\n

Too bad, then, that so much of what he does manage to do is so wrong-headed. Certainly, the energy centre is about as wrong-headed as a premier could get. It even flies in the face of his own government’s efforts to revitalize the waterfront, to make it a model 21st century community for Canada and the world.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

photo by Ron Bull\/Toronto Star <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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