Now I'm really getting pissed off.

Posted today. Good job this James guy at the lowerrates site keeping posting crap. I might not be so motivated.

12.1.2009 at 7:57 pm Northern Tour Guide :

James, You might want to check out an earlier post with the following highlights. The data comes from information published on this site and NB Power.

Electricity consumed in NB consists of:

26% in province renewables,
30% Nuclear: Pt. Lepreau when its operating,
20% contracted: including biomass and other hydro and some natural gas.

The remaining consists of Belledune, Grand lake (closing) and Dalhousie (still very cheap – Keirs words, but closing soon). Dalhousie and Grand Lake seem to be just filling a gap left by the Lepreau shutdown.

So soon the only fossil power generated will be Belledune, and it runs flatout and has been top ranked for numerous awards in North America for low cost and reliabilty. Not to mentions it has the first scrubber installed in Canada. So it’s as clean as the law requires it to be. Even the government used to brag about it.

http://www.gnb.ca/cnb/news/nbp/2007e0464nb.htm

Oh, and by the way, Dalhousie Generating Station greenhouse gas emmisions are the same as the Becancour natural gas facility built in Quebec.

http://www.transcanada.com/company/becancourLanding.html

Becancour = 1.687 MT GHG
Dalhousie = 1.7 MT GHG

http://www.environmentcanada.gc.ca/indicateurs-indicators/default.asp?lang=En&n=8F572EA1-1

So it seems the the reason that Hydro Quebec will be getting all the NB Power greehouse gas credits is to keep it’s own facilities running in the future when the carbon cap and trade comes into play.