Ontario’s really going for the gold. It’s building two new nuclear plants (the first in North America in decades) and reneging on its promise to reduce mercury air pollution.

Sources say the Liberal government’s recent decision to break a 2003 cornerstone campaign promise and keep open the province’s pollution-spewing coal-fired generating plants well past 2009 is behind the policy U-turn.

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Well done, Ontario!

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