A couple of Canadian newspapers are on the prime minister for being coy about the prospects of Canada joining the Global Nuclear Energy Partnership (GNEP). They’re trying to pin him down on how Canada will deal with radioactive waste, i.e., whether we would import it or not. Harper is too smart to answer right...
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How Canada can punch above its weight in energy
Canada has been called an energy superpower, largely because of the massive petroleum reserves entrained in the Alberta oil sands. But this country is also a major player in the international nuclear industry. Canada is the world’s largest uranium producing country, and a Canadian company, Cameco (formerly the government-owned Eldorado Nuclear), is the world’s...
Prentice goes to Industry: major nuclear initiative in the offing?
Does anyone remember May 2005, when Paul Martin promised $538 million to Dalton McGuinty to help defray the costs of closing Ontario’s coal plants? And that the Harper Conservatives told McGuinty they would honour Martin’s promise? Nobody ever mentions it. I wonder if anybody does remember. When the Ontario Liberal government introduced, in June,...
Harper Conservatives finally play the Kyoto PR game
This week’s series of federal announcements on renewables, wind power, tidal power, etc., sounded a lot like Liberal redux. To be fair to the government’s critics, that’s because a lot of it was Liberal redux. But this accusation has an extremely limited shelf-life. The Conservatives have finally realized the value of genuflecting to wind...
Are federal Conservatives set to support Ontario Liberals’ nuclear expansion?
Word has it that the prime minister and Ontario premier have been talking about heavy water and uranium. Specifically, they have discussed the prospect of the feds providing financial support for the purchase and commissioning of at least two CANDU reactors, probably at the Darlington generating station on Lake Ontario east of Toronto. The...
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