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2403 Final Exam QUESTION 2 : There were many different themes explored in the coal phase of the project. There is considerable emphasis throughout the report on the need to find alternate sources of energy that would be acceptable to the population of Ontario other than coal. It requires finding a way to make allies with people who will support the cause after finding a way to transition the change. To accomplish this transition, it is necessary to take the steps needed. Therefore, I believe that it was reassuring to see some actual change in the province being pushed by a small organization and I hope to see more cases like this one in the future as I think it is very difficult to make a drastic change in the system with a start-up organization consisting of two people. As far as I am aware, there was no specific transition plan that was in place during the phase-out process. As a result, there seemed to be more of a mix-and-match between Community-based procedures, MLPs, and TISs. For the phase-out strategy to succeed, the population has to be mobilized and allies enlisted in order to accomplish the mission. A key theme of the phase-out campaign was to build political allies while remaining politically nonpartisan, and this was one of the main goals of the campaign. Demonizing coal* - making it a "major source of air pollution and toxins that directly harmed Ontarians (especially children); and finally, feeding public perceptions about coal and the fact that it brought health problems to everyone exponentially (2015, 3-5) are also fundamental aims (2016, 13-14). Additionally, the OCAA aimed to paint a "sympathetic picture of coal-burning's huge impacts on the environment and sustain public interest in seeing them closed", as well as finding messengers that would be trustworthy, such as the "province's leading medical association", as well as individuals the general public would relate to (2015, 3). The OCAA also used the way forward of technological innovation as a model for the transition of
renewable energy to coal-fired power plants (2015, 4). It may also be prudent to examine new innovations that may be utilized when searching for a coal substitute. It is also possible to have a successful technical innovation system by following the stages outlined in this article. It was the province's goal to replace a quarter of its energy consumption with cleaner sources of energy by 2025. In spite of the fact that this objective was not achieved, it was a step in the right direction and it will lead to further innovation in the future. Considering that costs were a significant factor, it was essential that we study them more closely. It was necessary to adapt to the change in order to make it work. It was still necessary to do more work after the change. It was inevitable that some progress and changes would happen despite the success of the project. Phase-out is in my opinion not a transition plan, but rather a transition framework that is integral to the success of the plan itself. In my view, if the OCAA had used more of a centralized strategy, such as a combination of the TIS and MLP strategies, then they would have been able to achieve their end results and targets of changing "Ontario's approach to electricity generation and use" to renewable energy (53). The government could have developed technologies at multiple levels (provincial, municipal, and at home) instead of switching to gas production and collection in order to make a transition to green energy. In spite of the failure of the OCAA in its goal of converting to renewable energy and dismantling the nuclear power plant, they have still succeeded in taking coal out of the equation. Ultimately, while the phase-out plan took a long time to implement, I believe that it helped a little in removing coal from the province, even though it took a long time to implement. The report mentions that through this phase-out program, they took 7 million cars off the road and all of the emissions they produced as a result of that process. I would consider this as a positive step toward more sustainable systems, however relying on natural gas is a counteractive action against what the OCAA has done.
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