Proposed Oakville Generating Station
In June 2010, TransCanada was embroiled in a controversy surrounding a plan to construct a 975 MW gas-fired power plant on a disused 13.5-acre (5.5 ha) portion of Ford's Oakville, Ontario assembly plant. Local residents and politicians have expressed health and safety concerns to Ford in opposition to the plan.
Citing the 2010 gas-fired power-plant explosion plant in Middletown, Connecticut, U.S., and the 2008 Toronto propane explosion, Oakville MPP Kevin Flynn introduced a private member's bill that would require a 1500-meter buffer zone for such a plant, a proposal intended to effectively prevent the construction of this project.
The proposed Oakville site was ultimately abandoned in response to political pressure; the station will instead be built on the Lennox Generating Station site west of Bath, Ontario.
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