We’re heading into what could be a long and hot summer. It might come with more of the climate-related craziness that accompanied last summer. Against this backdrop, Stephen Harper’s Conservatives are busy working on a new climate change plan for Canada. Reading the tea leaves, it is difficult to tell how they will proceed....
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Ontario Liberals go nuclear, Greenpeace vows to go to the mattresses
The McGuinty government yesterday announced it would address the power supply problem by taking the only sensible course of action available to it: refurbishing laid-up reactors at the Bruce nuclear plant, and building two new reactors at an existing site, probably Darlington The Liberals thereby became the first North American government in decades to...
Ontario Liberals indefinitely postpone coal shut-down
Surprise, surprise. The Ontario Liberals announced Friday they were delaying—yet again—the closure of the provincial coal-fired generating plants. They are thereby violating the letter of one of their major election promises. The opposition is scrambling to make hay out of “yet another broken Liberal promise” but in truth the government is sitting pretty. This...
McGuinty’s Kyoto opportunity: a recap
Ontario could easily achieve Kyoto targets in its electricity generating sector, by refurbishing or replacing the laid-up nuclear units at the Pickering and Bruce generating stations. To make my case, I’m going to backhoe some of the historical numbers. Please bear with me. The numbers are important: understanding them is essential to learning the...
Could windmills replace Nanticoke?
In recent posts I have been beating the drum for nuclear power as the basis for a low-carbon electricity system. This system would itself be the basis for a fundamental shift away from fossil fuels and toward electricity as the prime driver of the 21st century economy. That is, more of the equipment that...
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