We now know the fate of Thunder Bay’s mothballed OPG generating station.
OPG spokesperson Neal Kelly tells us it has been sold to Budget Demolition out of Hamilton.
“It’s a big day for us in the northwest, we’ve operated that station since the early 1960s and there’s been hundreds of employees and people from the northwest that have worked at that station,” explained Kelly.
The OPG official would not disclose the purchase price.
Despite the sale of the site, OPG says its regional head office will continue to remain in Thunder Bay along with its 11 hydroelectric stations and one biomass facility that provide about 900 megawatts of power for Ontario.
In 2018, OPG stopped using the facility after it was being used as a biomass plant once the Ontario government ordered it to stop burning coal as an electricity source.
The City of Thunder Bay has been concerned about the future of the station hoping it could be sold to a company that could keep it operating in some way.
