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Ontario Rivers Alliance Help Save Ontario Rivers A registered Not-for-Profit organization creating a strong voice for Ontario Rivers.

Together for a common cause... to speak up for healthy rivers!

HYDRO RATEPAYERS AT RISK: On 11 December last year, Ontario quietly rewrote the rules. "Economic growth, consistent with...
09/03/2026

HYDRO RATEPAYERS AT RISK:
On 11 December last year, Ontario quietly rewrote the rules. "Economic growth, consistent with the policies of the Government of Ontario" was written into the Ontario Energy Board's objectives. The same Act put it into the short list the Board may weigh before approving a transmission line. That list now has two items. The other one is you.

Nine months on, here is what that buys.

Energy Minister Stephen Lecce says Ontario's nuclear projects came in ahead of schedule and under budget. He said it with three of Darlington's four newly refurbished reactors offline. OPG's own filing forecasts 286 outage days this year, the most since at least 2008, and 512 next year. Gas filled the gap. Some unplanned outages are normal. This many are not.

Add it up. $20.9 billion for four small reactors. $26.8 billion to refurbish Pickering. Bruce C. Wesleyville. More than 1,800 kilometres of transmission projects. And a hydroelectric stream that never competes against wind, solar or batteries. OPG assumes the next reactors get cheaper. Wood Mackenzie says no small reactor anywhere has shown that.

Who pays? You do. Supply costs jumped 29 percent last fall on nuclear alone. OPG is at the Energy Board now, file EB-2025-0297, asking ratepayers to fund both.

The IESO's new mandate promises growth "in a manner that protects the interests of consumers."

The Minister calls it becoming an "energy superpower," built on your back.

A hydro bill you cannot afford is not protection.

Comments are open. Say something.

The province faces a further large drop in nuclear power generation in a few weeks

It's time to stop damming rivers. Dams are not a climate solution.Reservoirs emit methane, a greenhouse gas more than 80...
08/07/2026

It's time to stop damming rivers. Dams are not a climate solution.

Reservoirs emit methane, a greenhouse gas more than 80 times more potent than carbon dioxide over 20 years.

For decades, Canada didn't count it. Reservoir methane went unreported, and emissions were tracked for only 10 years after flooding, as though a dam stopped emitting once it got older.

That changed this year. Canada's 2026 National Inventory Report counts reservoir methane for the first time, including bubbling and degassing. It now tracks emissions for 100 years, and states that methane emissions "persist indefinitely."

Canada's own words. Indefinitely. For as long as the dam stands.

Canada has also expanded its inventory to at least 150 reservoirs. That is real progress, and it came from years of ORA pressure.

But there is a long way to go. Canada still does not publish how many reservoirs it counts in total, and its emission figures come from a model rather than from measuring what is actually coming off the water. You cannot manage what you refuse to measure.

Please sign the petition and share it with your followers:

Tell the U.N. that Climate Agreements shouldn’t destroy rivers

A new report strengthens the case that the US and other major industrialized countries knew, long before they signed the...
07/22/2026

A new report strengthens the case that the US and other major industrialized countries knew, long before they signed the 2015 Paris Agreement to limit global warming, that they could face legal obligations to reduce climate-damaging greenhouse gas emissions.

A new report suggests that some governments have ignored legal obligations to prevent climate harm for decades, even as they chose fossil-fueled growth.

Wiser words have never been spoken! Power to the people!
07/17/2026

Wiser words have never been spoken! Power to the people!

Wanting clean water is not terrorism. Poisoning it for profit is corporate rule.

When corporations have constitutional rights and money is treated as speech, polluters gain power while communities are criminalized for defending their water.

Pass the We the People Amendment. Sign the petition and volunteer at MoveToAmend.org.

The potential impact is significant. If oxygen can be delivered cost-effectively to surface sediments, it may help reduc...
07/06/2026

The potential impact is significant. If oxygen can be delivered cost-effectively to surface sediments, it may help reduce internal phosphorus release, suppress methane generation, and generally make conditions more favourable for life at the bottom of the ocean.

Made internationally famous by their use to clean up the Lincoln Memorial pool in Washington, this tech is starting to be used globally.

Carney voted: It affirmed that governments — particularly historically important emitters (like Canada) — have obligatio...
06/29/2026

Carney voted: It affirmed that governments — particularly historically important emitters (like Canada) — have obligations grounded in international law to exercise due diligence, prevent transboundary environmental harm and take meaningful action to reduce emissions.

Canada's domestic energy policy is on a collision course with the international obligations it just endorsed.

Damless Hydrokinetic power is scalable. The state ministry says 100 Energyfish generate about 1.5 gigawatt-hours a year,...
06/12/2026

Damless Hydrokinetic power is scalable. The state ministry says 100 Energyfish generate about 1.5 gigawatt-hours a year, enough to cover 400 to 500 four-person households, at generation costs it places in the same range as wind and solar.

Solar panels quit the moment the sun goes down, and wind turbines slow to a crawl whenever the air goes still. That intermittency is the oldest knock against

Five years ago, the five largest oilsands producers promised their operations would be net-zero by 2050. The claims were...
06/07/2026

Five years ago, the five largest oilsands producers promised their operations would be net-zero by 2050. The claims were huge: a massive carbon capture and storage project would store 68 million tonnes of carbon emissions deep underground each year. Carbon Capture has simply been a Misleading Information Campaign that captured our Prime Minister. thenarwhal(.)ca/oilsands-pathways-emissions-promise/

The Alberta carbon capture project from the Oil Sands Alliance (Pathways Alliance) has revised down its plan to capture 68 megatonnes of emissions each year

Carbon Capture is simply UNPROVEN--it is MISINFORMATION! The Oilsands Alliance originally promised to capture 68 megaton...
06/07/2026

Carbon Capture is simply UNPROVEN--it is MISINFORMATION! The Oilsands Alliance originally promised to capture 68 megatonnes of emissions each year — the largest carbon capture project in the world. Now that number has dropped to 16.

The Alberta carbon capture project from the Oil Sands Alliance (Pathways Alliance) has revised down its plan to capture 68 megatonnes of emissions each year

“By gutting the laws that guarantee fundamental environmental protections, this government will only be fast-tracking pr...
06/07/2026

“By gutting the laws that guarantee fundamental environmental protections, this government will only be fast-tracking preventable — and in some cases irreversible — harms to communities and ecosystems...

Groups held a press conference declaring Prime Minister Carney and his government have gone too far Ottawa | Traditional, unceded territory of the

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