Lambton Generating Station
by Mike Falkner
OPG’s Lambton Generating Station is located on the St. Clair River near Sarnia, Ontario. The station had a total generating capacity of 1,976 MW and first provided baseline power to the grid in 1969. The plant has 4 generation units, each consisting of a Coal-Fired Boiler and 500MW Steam Turbine. The two large smokestacks (Canada's 15th tallest) were superseded by the new 'scrubber' stack system in order to reduce SO2, NOX and Fly Ash emissions by up to 90%.
Units 1 and 2 were mothballed in 2010. Units 3 and 4 were operational up until 2013, as the McGuinty/Wynne governments phased out the use of coal for electrical generation purposes.
OPG has declared that preserving the plant for alternative fuel conversion is no longer economically feasible. The station now sits quietly, wrapped in a political shambles which will ultimately result in site demolition to devalue the property and save OPG some tax dollars.
