Dan Wrightman

Surprisingly for some, Quebec's reaction to Carney's electricity strategy was quite muted. There's a few reasons for that. 🧵⬇️

@Reil76 True, but what this shows is that isn't a conspiracy theory. This is a policy change that is being seriously considered by Canadian M.P.'s.

@dwrightman Anyone can recommend anything, doesn’t make it happen.

Let’s clear something up about MAID in Canada. It does not apply to children. You must be 18 or older. Mature minors do not qualify. Full stop. It does not apply to people simply because they are poor or struggling. To be eligible, you must have a serious and incurable illness, disease or disability, be in an advanced state of irreversible decline, and be experiencing intolerable suffering that cannot be relieved in any way you find acceptable. Financial hardship alone is not a criterion. It is not a rubber stamp. Approval requires assessments by two independent practitioners who review your medical records and confirm you have seriously considered available treatment options. When death is not reasonably foreseeable, a minimum 90-day assessment period is required. People whose only medical condition is a mental illness are not currently eligible either, that eligibility has been postponed to March 2027 while further safeguards are studied. You can have moral or religious objections to assisted dying. That is a legitimate position held by a lot of Canadians. But spreading misinformation about what the law actually says is not an argument. It is just fearmongering. Know wtf you are talking about before you talk about it.

@Reil76 Parliamentary committee has recommended expansion of MAID to minors. globalnews.ca/news/9491605/m…

@dwrightman That is not the plan

@Barbarajdurkin @alex_fasulo So stupid. Ontario did this with the Green Energy Act. Forcing industrial energy projects on communities that didn't want them created a backlash so large that no new wind & solar contracts were signed for 10 years.

@alex_fasulo Thank You, Alex! You’re making great waves! RE: Byron, NY solar. Nextera Energy Excelsior, DPS/NY:Gov, “a wholly owned, indirect subsidiary of NextEra Energy” NextEra faces a Class Action lawsuit alleging, 9/23–1/25 “Securities Fraud”. prnewswire.com/news-releases/… @dwrightman

Good on the leaders from Genesee County for standing up and announcing enough is ENOUGH with the solar wasteland ORES has forced into Western New York. Please watch the segment below. Their towns have been destroyed. Town leaders don't get a say in what happens to their towns. The Office of Renewable Energy Siting (ORES) was created in a way where it supersedes all local laws, moratoriums, and zoning. It also supersedes our entire @NYSDEC. As the bureaucrats at ORES will tell you, our local laws are "cumbersome" to them. They needed a way to crush home rule. So the one-party-rule legislature in Albany created ORES in 2020, snuck through in a budget bill on April 2, 2020. This is the result. These people will not stop until every town in New York State looks like Byron, New York. To everyone in Byron and Genesee County: I am so sorry you had to go first. I am so sorry your county has been the guinea pig for a dystopian, globalist, and demonic agenda that's been pushed out of Albany. What we are actually witnessing, in real-time, is the greatest wealth transfer of our lifetimes: generational farmland is moving from families to foreign renewable developers. Everyone must wake up to this and soon. It's never been about the panels themselves. whec.com/top-news/news1…

@nickcapra_gpc @CTVToronto The Financial Accountability Office report looked into the subsidies & found expensive wind & solar contracts make up 45% of the $6 billion subsidy costs. Nuclear is not mentioned at all in the report as it's not part of the subsidies in any way. fao-on.org/en/report/ener…

@CTVToronto $300M???? Ontario tax subsidies towards nuclear power is over $6Billion a year. That’s on top of what everyone pays on their monthly bills. Nuclear was and still is a money pit rabbit hole. Perfect for a corrupt politician to take advantage of.

World’s largest nuclear facility could be built in Ontario with new $300M deal ctvnews.ca/toronto/politi…

@beachmagoo @Sflecce @Bruce_Power @fordnation @LisaThompsonPC @KINECTRICS @TheSocietySays There is no truth to that statement. Wind & solar are at best, fuel savers for gas and at worst, lock in continued fossil fuel use for decades. Wind & solar cannot be reliably firmed with batteries as the cost is astronomical.

@Sflecce @Bruce_Power @fordnation @LisaThompsonPC @KINECTRICS @TheSocietySays Wind, solar and batteries is the lowest cost of new electricity and much faster to deploy than nuclear. Ontario is guaranteeing its residents high cost electricity for decades to come.

Canadians want us to be bold. To do big things. That's exactly why Ontario is moving forward with the @Bruce_Power nuclear expansion — Canada’s first large-scale nuclear build in over 30 years. @fordnation is saying yes to 18,900 net-new jobs and made-in-Canada power for 4.8 million homes. 🔗: news.ontario.ca/en/release/100…

@CoinXndr @Sflecce @jscongack @Bruce_Power @LIUNA @TheSocietySays @KINECTRICS @energy_alberta @cameconews @BWXT @HydroOne @atkinsrealis @IESO_Tweets The best hydro sites have been developed & the big hydro projects in ON are run of the river without resevoir capacity. Transmission doesn't help capacity. Demand response will be constrained as heat is electrified as people will expect to keep warm. ON needs more nuclear or gas

@dwrightman @Sflecce @jscongack @Bruce_Power @LIUNA @TheSocietySays @KINECTRICS @energy_alberta @cameconews @BWXT @HydroOne @atkinsrealis @IESO_Tweets No serious grid plan relies on one giant lithium battery to run Ontario for a winter day. The real issue is firm capacity. Wind & solar need storage, hydro, transmission, & demand response. Without that, gas fills the gap. But that is a policy failure, not a law of physics.

The Green Ribbon Panel, led by Chair @jscongack, brings together leaders across industry, labour, Indigenous partners, and government — all united by one mission: getting big projects built faster and strengthening Canada’s energy future. Had a productive roundtable at #CNA2026 with @RudyCuzzetto on how #OntariosNuclearAdvantage is putting 150,000 Canadians to work and unlocking $800B in economic value. We agreed to work together to develop a long-term labour strategy that keeps the skilled women and men in the nuclear sector employed for another generation.

@GasBuddyGuy Wow, diesel's more expensive in Michigan than it is across the border in Ontario. Has that ever happened before?

BREAKING: #Michigan has set a new all-time record for average diesel price at $5.990 beating out 2022's record of $5.955

@CoinXndr @Sflecce @jscongack @Bruce_Power @LIUNA @TheSocietySays @KINECTRICS @energy_alberta @cameconews @BWXT @HydroOne @atkinsrealis @IESO_Tweets Storage backing wind/solar is unaffordable to prevent blackouts in winter. It would cost well over 100 billion for just one day of storage for today's grid & if we're going to electrify heat & transportation too .... the costs are impossible. It will just be a gas fired system.

@dwrightman @Sflecce @jscongack @Bruce_Power @LIUNA @TheSocietySays @KINECTRICS @energy_alberta @cameconews @BWXT @HydroOne @atkinsrealis @IESO_Tweets That's just simply a lie propagated by O&G & Conservatives. There are no "winter blackouts". We would have a wind/solar/hydro working as a system with capacity in infrastructure & storage.

@CoinXndr @Sflecce @jscongack @Bruce_Power @LIUNA @TheSocietySays @KINECTRICS @energy_alberta @cameconews @BWXT @HydroOne @atkinsrealis @IESO_Tweets The wind and solar lobbyists have zero interest in publically owned & developed projects. I don't see this as a platform in any political party either. The history in Ontario has been a gas/wind/solar led privatization of generation for over 20 years.

@dwrightman @Sflecce @jscongack @Bruce_Power @LIUNA @TheSocietySays @KINECTRICS @energy_alberta @cameconews @BWXT @HydroOne @atkinsrealis @IESO_Tweets No deregulation needs to happen for solar or wind. No cutting services, no privatization. Owned by the public, subsidized by government. Publicly managed infrastructure. With Nuclear you get more millionaire exec's like hydro/gas. Rich getting richer by overcharging the public.

@CoinXndr @Sflecce @jscongack @Bruce_Power @LIUNA @TheSocietySays @KINECTRICS @energy_alberta @cameconews @BWXT @HydroOne @atkinsrealis @IESO_Tweets Decentralization is neoliberal policy talk for downloading and privatizing or cutting services. Advocates for decentralization are either tin foil hat types that are paranoid of government programs or finace types that want private control to make money for the select few.

@dwrightman @Sflecce @jscongack @Bruce_Power @LIUNA @TheSocietySays @KINECTRICS @energy_alberta @cameconews @BWXT @HydroOne @atkinsrealis @IESO_Tweets No... It's the opposite. Centralized transit works to build access for everyone. Solar, wind, & hydro builds access for everyone while removing control by the rich. There is a future where we don't pay for our electricity. That's what we should be moving toward.

@CoinXndr @Sflecce @jscongack @Bruce_Power @LIUNA @TheSocietySays @KINECTRICS @energy_alberta @cameconews @BWXT @HydroOne @atkinsrealis @IESO_Tweets How does 0% capacity value for solar in the winter prevent blackouts.

@dwrightman @Sflecce @jscongack @Bruce_Power @LIUNA @TheSocietySays @KINECTRICS @energy_alberta @cameconews @BWXT @HydroOne @atkinsrealis @IESO_Tweets The reality is simple. Solar & wind in combination with hydro is the most cost efficient & cost saving for Ontario. Current solar is far cheaper & more efficient. Why argue for Nuclear when it's yet another Conservative led half-cocked idea? It's no better than Doug's tunnel. 🤦

@CoinXndr @Sflecce @jscongack @Bruce_Power @LIUNA @TheSocietySays @KINECTRICS @energy_alberta @cameconews @BWXT @HydroOne @atkinsrealis @IESO_Tweets Getting rid of centralized nuclear while subsidizing solar panels for the well off homeowners is like getting rid of centalized mass transit while subsidizing Teslas for rich people. This kind of policy benefits the rich and hurts the poor. It's policy failure.

@dwrightman @Sflecce @jscongack @Bruce_Power @LIUNA @TheSocietySays @KINECTRICS @energy_alberta @cameconews @BWXT @HydroOne @atkinsrealis @IESO_Tweets Imagine if the Cons just modernized the grid so that people could install solar on their roofs, in all areas, & subsidized the cost of purchase & installation? Problem solved. The grid is so poor in many areas leaving no capacity in the transfer stations to complete projects.

@CoinXndr @Sflecce @jscongack @Bruce_Power @LIUNA @TheSocietySays @KINECTRICS @energy_alberta @cameconews @BWXT @HydroOne @atkinsrealis @IESO_Tweets We're debating on how to decarbonize the current ON grid which is already mostly decarbonized when the bigger hurdle is how to vastly expand the grid for heat & transportation electrification. People are not going to fuel switch if electricity isn't reliable or affordable.

@CoinXndr @Sflecce @jscongack @Bruce_Power @LIUNA @TheSocietySays @KINECTRICS @energy_alberta @cameconews @BWXT @HydroOne @atkinsrealis @IESO_Tweets I'm not sure exactly what you're asking? I don't belong to any political parties and neither do any family members. Advocating for nuclear doesn't benefit me or my family in any sociaI/poliitcal manner. I simply advocate for nuclear for it's societal & environmental benefits.

@CoinXndr @Sflecce @jscongack @Bruce_Power @LIUNA @TheSocietySays @KINECTRICS @energy_alberta @cameconews @BWXT @HydroOne @atkinsrealis @IESO_Tweets Yes, of course there still is solar in winter but its output is much lower and less reliable. For 2025, the IESO calculates the capacity contribution value of solar at zero for 4 months in the winter time. ieso.ca/-/media/Files/…

@dwrightman @Sflecce @jscongack @Bruce_Power @LIUNA @TheSocietySays @KINECTRICS @energy_alberta @cameconews @BWXT @HydroOne @atkinsrealis @IESO_Tweets Yes. That has been proven to be a non-barrier. You realize that in Ontario, total daylight hours average about 8.9 to 9.6 hours per day in the winter (December through February).

@CoinXndr @Sflecce @jscongack @Bruce_Power @LIUNA @TheSocietySays @KINECTRICS @energy_alberta @cameconews @BWXT @HydroOne @atkinsrealis @IESO_Tweets Neither I, nor any of my family have or had any ties to any energy industry of any type. Can you declare the same Alex?

@dwrightman @Sflecce @jscongack @Bruce_Power @LIUNA @TheSocietySays @KINECTRICS @energy_alberta @cameconews @BWXT @HydroOne @atkinsrealis @IESO_Tweets You must be a paid shill. You continue to argue in bad faith, with partial truths & illegitimate points. The facts don't lie, Nuclear is about the rich keeping control of energy in Ontario. It's about lack of transparency. This is why cons love it so much. Keep the rich, rich.

@CoinXndr @Sflecce @jscongack @Bruce_Power @LIUNA @TheSocietySays @KINECTRICS @energy_alberta @cameconews @BWXT @HydroOne @atkinsrealis @IESO_Tweets But 4 hours isn't near enough. In the winter time when there is almost no solar, there can also be almost no wind for up to a week if a high pressure system settles in over eastern North America during a dangerous cold snap.

@CoinXndr @Sflecce @jscongack @Bruce_Power @LIUNA @TheSocietySays @KINECTRICS @energy_alberta @cameconews @BWXT @HydroOne @atkinsrealis @IESO_Tweets Darlington SMR nuclear is forecast to cost $14.9 cents/kWh. New wind & solar in ON costs 8.8 cents/kWh. The largest battery in ON, cost $750 million for 4 hours of output @ 300MW. The average demand of ON's grid is 14000MW & it would cost $35 billion for only 4 hours of storage