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[Bibi L]

1970s Hearn Power Station running at full power is best generating station! They need to start it up again. And finish the Spadina Expressway.

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Nature must be conquered!

I’ve seen that photo! Wow, imagine breathing that…
How about we also build the massive proposed smokestack at Pearl Street Energy Centre from the 1960s?
Yup, that’s right. They wanted to build a smokestack DOWNTOWN almost as TALL as the TD Centre.

Original Toronto Star caption: Soaring Smokestack superimposed here shows how the proposed 700-foot chimney Toronto Hydro wants to build at a cost of $1;000;000 at its Pearl St. steam generating plant would compare with Toronto's tallest building-Toronto-Dominion Tower. It is only 40 feet shorter.

Luckily that was not built. Instead, there is a shorter stack currently standing there. It’s a 4 megawatt plant, which is mostly used for heating downtown office buildings.

This is how it would have looked like. Credit, TPL Digital Archive (Toronto Star Archives)

 

[rdaner]

Though I can see it might be good to re-use this building, the note in the DRP March document is not quite so definitive about closure. https://www.waterfrontoronto.ca/sit...trict-Precinct-Plan-Issues-Identification.pdf says

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Yes. As always a work in progress but there is further discussion deep in the volumous documents that mention the attributes of the structure for conversion. No mention of replacement plans for waste management so probably aspirational. This has been done before with the Incinerator in the West End.

 

[DSC]

Yes. As always a work in progress but there is further discussion deep in the volumous documents that mention the attributes of the structure for conversion. No mention of replacement plans for waste management so probably aspirational. This has been done before with the Incinerator in the West End.

Of course it COULD be done (and maybe SHOULD be done) but your post stated "...This building is being decommissioned in 2 years..." This is clearly NOT happening in 2026.

 

[hawc]

How about we also build the massive proposed smokestack at Pearl Street Energy Centre from the 1960s? Yup, that’s right. They wanted to build a smokestack DOWNTOWN almost as TALL as the TD Centre.

A tall enough smokestack solves any pollution problem. Just got to get it into the troposphere and the wind carries it away!

 

[DSC]

A tall enough smokestack solves any pollution problem. Just got to get it into the troposphere and the wind carries it away!

"Out of sight: out of mind" was certainly the way things were - but it's really not true :->

 

[hawc]

Wow the old colours on the top of the smokestack are some serious nightmare fuel. Feels evil.

 

[Bibi L]

Wow the old colours on the top of the smokestack are some serious nightmare fuel. Feels evil.

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Yeah, that’s what I was referring to here,

The top of the smokestack was originally black with red in the middle, instead of the all white now.

Photo is from City of Toronto. “An Infectious Idea: Environmental Health”.

 

[3Dementia]

ICBM ^

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[UtakataNoAnnex]

Wow the old colours on the top of the smokestack are some serious nightmare fuel. Feels evil.

Never knew your drone could travel back in time. Hope it doesn't clip a butterfly wing...