The demolition of Mississauga's Lakeview Generating Station has been delayed once again.
Unfavourable weather conditions are the reason for the cancellation. It's the second time this week the controlled blast has been put off.
The station is slated to be demolished at some point in the near future two years after it went out of service. Murray Demolitions, which is in charge of the controlled blast, says the structure should come down within a minute.
Last year the plant's four smokestacks, known as the
Four Sisters, were brought down in a dramatic display.
The Dalton McGuinty government's recently-unveiled green plan seeks to shut all coal-fired plants by 2014. Currently coal still accounts for 20 per cent of electricity in this province.
About Lakeview Generating Station:
- In service for 43 years -- from 1962-2005
- Built on a 52 hectare site
- Cost of construction - $274 million
- Staff - during the 1970s, when all units were operating, about 430 regular staff
- Originally an eight-unit station
- Considered the largest coal-fired station in the world at the time (2,400 MW)
- In the 1970s, when the station was operating as a baseload station, it could supply about 17 per cent of Ontario's electricity needs
- In the 1990s it was reduced to a four-unit station - peaking plant
- During its operating life, the station generated more than 215 billion kWh of electricity - enough to supply all of Ontario's needs for about one and a half years based on 2005 Ontario consumption
Info courtesy
Ontario Power Generation
Lakeview had long history in Mississauga
See unedited video of the Four Sisters demolition