Nanticoke Generating Station

A decommissioned coal / natural gas fired power plant

This plant, at its peak, produced 25% of Ontario’s entire energy consumption. It was the largest coal-fired generating station in North America when rated by generating capacity, is wholly owned by Ontario Power Generation.

The station, on the north shore of Lake Erie, discharged 5.2 million kilograms of dangerous air pollutants according to statistics from 1999, including a total of 13 compounds that were known carcinogens, toxic heavy metals such as lead, arsenic and chromium gases, acid gasses including hydrochloric and sulphuric compounds and also radioactive constituents of uranium, thorium and their numerous decay products including radium and radon gas.