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By: Patrick Mangion, Staff Writer
Following a five-hour special meeting yesterday, King now joins Aurora, East Gwillimbury and Georgina as unwilling hosts for the province's planned peak-demand natural gas-fired power plant.
King would have appeared as a willing host if it didn't take a position about the power plant, Ms Black said.
"It's an impossible process that pits municipalities against municipalities," she said.
The province has warned the plant will need to be built within three years to ensure northern York Region has enough power for homes and businesses.
It's unclear if the defiant stance from all four northern towns will impact the province's timeline.
Queen's Park has the ability to step in and decide where the power plant is built.
Several of the five developers, bidding to build the power plant, have ignored the towns and proceeded with their applications.
Two sites have been proposed in King.
The town is home to the new Holland transformer station on Miller's Sideroad. When completed next year, it will add power distribution capacity in York Region.