Get ready for a major dustup over energy in Southern Ontario. The central issue is how to replace the giant Nanticoke coal-fired generating plant, which is slated to be shut down by 2014. What will pick up the 4,000 megawatt slack, nuclear or gas? This dilemma is the Ontario version of a choice that...
Monthly Archives: October 2008
Nuclear power in South Asia: opportunities and challenges for Canada
Now that the Nuclear Suppliers Group (NSG) has voted to lift its general ban on nuclear trade with India, western countries are lining up to grab their share of this burgeoning and lucrative civilian nuclear market. What opportunities are there for companies in the Canadian nuclear industry? India has 17 power reactors, 15 of...
Europe backpedals on climate policy: carbon abatement too expensive
The European Union’s climate change policy, much loved by Canadian environmentalists, has become the subject of increasingly bitter bickering in Europe. At issue is the EU’s official commitment to cut greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions by 20 percent by 2020, and to ensure that renewable energy sources provide a fifth of all energy. The countries...
EDF on the move: French nuclear juggernaut rolls over UK—is America next?
A couple weeks ago, the French nuclear utility, EDF, offered to buy British Energy, its UK counterpart, for the equivalent of around $22.8 billion Canadian. More recently, EDF tried to elbow Warren Buffet’s MidAmerican Energy Holdings out of the bid to acquire Constellation Energy, a Baltimore-based electric utility whose generating fleet includes five nuclear...
Canadian Kyoto electoral test—fails
Who were the big winners in BC in yesterday’s election? The Conservatives. The big losers? The Liberals. Though they downplayed their hallmark Green Shift during their British Columbia campaign swings in the post–financial meltdown phase of the election, the Liberals still ended up taking it on the chin for Gordon Campbell’s carbon tax. The...
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