Bibi L
Active Member
I’ve seen that photo! Wow, imagine breathing that…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!
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)