Canadian Energy Issues Articles in June, 2009

Ontario–federal nuclear negotiation continues, as does CANDU-climate disconnect

Steve Aplin
June 30, 2009

Last month the Canadian federal government announced it was going to privatize Atomic Energy Canada Limited (AECL). The medical isotope part of the business would be separated from power reactors. The feds hoped that this would thereby ease Ontario’s troubled mind as the province, in the middle of finalizing its choice of a vendor to build at least two new reactors at the Darlington generating station, weighed the implications of …Read the rest of the article