Minister, over the summer you came to Mississauga South to announce that Lakeview will not be considered as a potential site for a new gas-fired power plant.

After hosting a dirty coal plant for 40 years, the residents of Lakeview and, indeed, all of Mississauga welcome the decision to protect our waterfront.

Now that Lakeview is not an option for power generation we are one step closer to our goal of revitalizing the area.

As our province undergoes the bold ambition of eliminating coal, we have a need for peaker capacity-that is, when a lot of people at the same time demand energy it is our obligation that it be available to them-and accordingly, these gas-fired power plants are part and parcel of that.

This is a process that will be completed by June of next year with an in-service date for the plant no later than the end of 2013.

The project will be required to undergo all local, municipal and environmental standards and there is going to be a very big process of involvement with communities.

There have been efforts by the OPA in more localized centres in the southwest GTA to involve the public, give them information and respond to their questions.

Even though the Lakeview coal plant has been demolished and the Nanticoke plant is soon to follow, air quality remains a concern.

As such, people are worried about the cumulative effect of existing emitters and a new gas-fired power plant on the air we breathe.

In response, many have suggested that power generation should be placed farther away from residential communities.

This new gas-fired facility in southwest GTA will meet the needs as dictated by the Environmental Assessment Act, and, overall, we see progress towards substantial improvement in the air.