{"id":692,"date":"2006-04-14T16:01:05","date_gmt":"2006-04-14T20:01:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spacingtoronto.ca\/?p=692"},"modified":"2013-01-21T13:53:45","modified_gmt":"2013-01-21T18:53:45","slug":"conflicting-views-of-tos-waterfront-and-engery-needs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/toronto\/2006\/04\/14\/conflicting-views-of-tos-waterfront-and-engery-needs\/","title":{"rendered":"Conflicting views of T.O.’s waterfront and engery needs"},"content":{"rendered":"

Robert Ouellette had a good post<\/a> on Reading Toronto yesterday (with some good links, too): “Why is it that whenever Toronto begins to improve the waterfront one of the other levels of Canadian government stops those improvements cold? The Ontario Liberal’s decision to build a new power plant on the waterfront is the latest example of this unwanted interference. Our city government does not want this plant. Residents in downtown Toronto don’t want it. Toronto Hydro says we don’t need it. So, can someone explain why this plant is arbitrarily going forward?”<\/p>\n

His post coincides with the chapter I’m currently reading (“Wasteful Cities”) in John Lorinc’s recent book<\/a> The New City<\/em>. Cities are energy hogs and this has a profound trickle-down effect on the public realm in the form of pollution. Lorinc’s book is packed with great stats and reports.
\nAnd, as we can see from the energy plant debate going on, our energy needs may also have a significant effect on the potential growth of our urban form at the water’s edge. You can find out more about Lorinc’s The New City<\/em> in an Eye Weekly article<\/a> by Spacing<\/em>‘s managing editor Dale Duncan (it’s a few weeks old).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Robert Ouellette had a good post on Reading Toronto yesterday (with some good links, too): “Why is it that whenever Toronto begins to improve the waterfront one of the other levels of Canadian government stops those improvements cold? The Ontario Liberal’s decision to build a new power plant on the waterfront is the latest exampleContinue reading “Conflicting views of T.O.’s waterfront and engery needs”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1022,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"_ef_editorial_meta_paragraph_assignment":"","_ef_editorial_meta_date_first-draft-date":"","_ef_editorial_meta_checkbox_needs-photo":"","_ef_editorial_meta_number_word-count":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[13,5],"tags":[1975,331,1972,1973,1974,23,423,1030,421,1971,1482,19],"class_list":["post-692","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-green-space","category-waterfront","tag-canadian-government","tag-dale-duncan","tag-energy-hogs","tag-energy-needs","tag-energy-plant-debate-going","tag-environment","tag-eye-weekly","tag-john-lorinc","tag-managing-editor","tag-robert-ouellette","tag-the-new-city","tag-toronto"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\nConflicting views of T.O.'s waterfront and engery needs - Spacing Toronto<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/toronto\/2006\/04\/14\/conflicting-views-of-tos-waterfront-and-engery-needs\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Conflicting views of T.O.'s waterfront and engery needs - Spacing Toronto\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Robert Ouellette had a good post on Reading Toronto yesterday (with some good links, too): “Why is it that whenever Toronto begins to improve the waterfront one of the other levels of Canadian government stops those improvements cold? 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