"The government will soon announce our response to the Ontario Power Authority report," an aide to the premier said last night. "The premier repeated on Saturday what he has always said publicly, that we cannot take new nuclear off the table as we prepare Ontario's long-term energy plan."

As for the nuclear option, Jack Gibbons, executive director of the Ontario Clean Air Alliance, denounced the OPA's call for more nuclear power as "1950s-style solution to meet our electricity needs in the 21st century."

Sources tell the Toronto Star that Premier [Dalton McGuinty] revealed in an off-the-record speech Saturday that Ontario will choose more nuclear power. Premier Dalton McGuinty is about to announce that Ontario will opt for more nuclear power, sources say.