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...
The People’s Front of Judea makes policy: agenda item, Nuclear Power
Oh, to be a fly on the wall in closed-door meetings where mainstream environmental lobbyists set down their organizations’ positions on the big issues of the day. On the big issue of nuclear power in Ontario, how would the discussion go? I wish it would go something like the one in the video clip...
Nuclear energy in Ontario: legislative game theory in interesting times
The McGuinty Liberals squeaked into a minority government on October 6, mostly by hanging on to their electoral seats in urban areas—especially in and around Toronto. It was clear that their strategy in the campaign was to focus on these seats. The premier talked up his Green Energy Act incessantly, and the Green Energy...
Climate change and nuclear proliferation: how to fix both
A recent article in the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists discussed the urgent issue of climate change and how mankind can act decisively and coherently to deal with it. The article, entitled “Wedges reaffirmed,” argues that mankind has all the tools it needs to reduce the emissions of anthropogenic carbon dioxide (CO2) that are...
Wondering why still no radiation casualties at Fukushima? A prominent radiation epidemiologist explains
It has been 434 days since the Fukushima nuclear meltdown. The casualty count from atomic radiation is today exactly what it was the day before the Great East Japan Earthquake launched a tsunami that killed thousands and wrecked three reactors at the nuclear plant. That is, the number of radiation casualties is still zero....
Canadian Auto Workers want expensive, unreliable electricity and not high-paying union jobs in Ontario: Solidarity Forever, redefined
A recent article in durhamregion.com reported on an alliance between the Canadian Auto Workers (the Canadian counterpart of the United Auto Workers) and the Canadian Association of Physicians for the Environment (CAPE). CAW/CAPE held a joint press conference warning of the loss of 5,000 jobs if wind and solar projects under the Ontario FIT...
Alabama jumps to early lead over Ontario in race for massive job creation
In August, the Tennessee Valley Authority, a U.S. government-owned electric utility, announced it would finally complete work on unit 1 of its Bellefonte nuclear plant near Hollywood Alabama. According to Mike Rencheck, the Chief Operating Officer of Areva North America, which on September 15 won the contract to do the steam supply system work,...
Darlington nuclear as an election issue: to support, or not support, thousands of true clean energy jobs
On Wednesday evening I participated in an Ontario election debate on energy. During the 40-minute debate, Ontario nuclear plants were providing around 65 percent of the electricity that was powering not just the studio but the rest of the province as well. In honour of our most important energy source, I felt it was...
Ontario election kickoff: how will energy play?
Watch The Agenda with Steve Paikin tonight (September 7) on TV Ontario. I will be there, along with the Ontario energy minister Brad Duguid, Conservative energy critic John Yakabuski, NDP critic Peter Tabuns, and Green Party critic Steve Dyck. The topic of tonight’s debate: Which party has the best plan for keeping Ontario’s lights...
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