The biggest clean-energy news in nearly seven years broke late yesterday, when Bruce Power announced it is making steam again at Unit 2. The heat to make Unit 2′s steam comes from a 750-megawatt CANDU reactor. This machine “burns” tiny amounts of natural uranium fuel, and is one of the most efficient ways on...
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Nuclear progress in Canada: like the western pipelines, it’s all about real property rights
If your energy strategy involves somebody else’s real property, don’t be surprised if that somebody’s legal property rights trump your energy strategy. CBC Radio’s The Current recently published a very interesting interview with the Canadian federal natural resources minister, who during the interview gives a pretty well-explained account of the government’s support of the...
Occupy Ottawa update II: it’s still possible to run on grid power
A lot of the criticism of the Occupy phenomenon has centred on its general incoherence on substantive policy. What do the Occupiers want? The movement started with Occupy Wall Street, which might suggest disapproval of the Wall Street bailouts from 2008 and 2009 and a belief that the Street brought the financial calamity on...
What lights up Occupy Ottawa? It could and should be clean energy, but it’s not
This is the first of a three-article series. The other articles are “Occupy Ottawa update: why they’re using gasoline” and “Occupy Ottawa update II: it’s still possible to run on grid power.” I wonder when Bob Dylan’s classic “The Times They Are a-Changin’” will become the anthem for the Occupy protests that have swept...
Electric campaign in Ontario: minority legislature arrives at the crossroads
Subway and streetcar riders in Toronto should get familiar with the electricity war in the Ontario legislature. Actually, everybody in the Greater Toronto Area should get familiar with it. The GTA runs on electricity. The war is over electricity prices. Should they be high or low? Some people think they should be high. Such...
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