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Portlands Energy Centre is a natural gas power station in the Port Lands. Pinewood Toronto Studios was built in 2008 on a former Esso oil tank farm in the Port Lands. The Port of Toronto is a 21-hectare (52-acre) container shipping facility and a cruise ship terminal along the eastern shore of the inner harbour operated by PortsToronto ...
In 1911, the Toronto Harbour Commission was founded and from 1912 to 1925, the Toronto Harbour Commission, now PortsToronto, revealed a large overall plan for the Toronto waterfront. The plan saw the clearing of old piers, the filling of waterlots and the Port Lands area, where the current Port of Toronto of is located.
The Portlands Energy Centre is a 550-megawatt natural gas electrical generating station in Toronto, Ontario. It is located in the Port Lands area of the Toronto waterfront at 470 Unwin Avenue, adjacent to the site of the decommissioned Hearn Generating Station .
The terminal was opened in 2005. [2] It was originally built to accommodate The Spirit of Ontario I, a water-jet powered big catamaran fast ferry that was to make several round trips per day between Toronto, Ontario and Rochester, New York, but the ferry service only ran for a total of six months. [3]
Ookwemin Minising (Oh-kway-min Min-nih-sing), meaning 'place of black cherry trees', [1] is a 39.6 hectares (98 acres) area in Toronto's Port Lands that has been converted to an island as part of Port Lands Flood Protection Project by Waterfront Toronto.
The Ontario government announced in April 2005 that the Portlands Energy Centre would not be part of the approved 2 500 MW of new power production in Ontario coming online in the next few years. The Independent Electricity System Operator warned of rolling black-outs in Toronto if 250 MW are not added by 2008, with an additional 250 MW required ...
The Toronto Port Authority (TPA), doing business as PortsToronto (PT), [1] is a port authority that is responsible for the management of the Port of Toronto, including the International Marine Passenger Terminal, and Billy Bishop Toronto City Airport.
Pinewood Toronto Studios (formerly known as Filmport) is a major film and television studio complex in Toronto, Ontario, Canada and is the largest of its kind in Canada. It is the first in Toronto capable of accommodating the production of large-scale films. [1] The studio is named for the British Pinewood Studios Group.