North America’s biggest clean energy centre, the Bruce nuclear power plant on Lake Huron near Tiverton Ontario, is also a major profit centre for its owners and operators. Its owners include me and 13 million of my fellow Ontario citizens:…
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Nuclear shows up for Ontario electricity fight: Power Workers versus the Gas Association
The Power Workers’ Union (CUPE Local 1000) placed a print ad in at least one Ontario vehicle recently that was a sight for sore eyes and music to my ears. Responding to a new offensive by the natural gas industry,…
Today’s coffee, without Ontario nuclear power: a depressing counter-factual look at the brave new green world
My coffeemaker, a 1995-vintage Hamilton-Beach automatic drip filter machine, takes roughly eight minutes to make four cups of coffee. The appliance is rated at 1000 watts (one kilowatt), which means that in those eight minutes it uses roughly 0.133 kilowatt-hours.…
On Earth Day, a real present for Mother Earth: 5,500 megawatts of zero-carbon electricity
All Bruce Power nuclear reactors are running, as of just this afternoon. This is the first time since 1996 that the plant’s 8 units have all been running, and the first time in Bruce Power’s history. As I mentioned in…
Embrace nuclear energy, Alberta: it’s the only way to lower oilsands GHGs
Alberta is panicking right now, fearing the worst when the U.S. makes its next decision on the Keystone Pipeline. If the new American secretary of state’s recent legislative past is an indicator, Keystone, which will carry Alberta bitumen to the…