The firm where I am employed has done a lot of work in organizing and advising on the devolution of federal responsibilities to provinces and territories in the area of contaminated sites remediation. Some of the real environmental messes involve…
Category: Nuclear regulation
The energy ground-game: coming soon to Courtice, Ontario
The Darlington Nuclear Generating Station on Lake Ontario is the second-largest clean energy centre in the Western Hemisphere (the largest is the Bruce nuclear plant on the east shore of Lake Huron). A multi-unit station consisting of four 860-megawatt reactors,…
Uranium in Toronto: the cleanest fuel runs the cleanest city
Toronto runs mostly on uranium and plutonium. Those two nuclear fuels provide the energy that runs Canadian nuclear reactors, which are what make most of the electricity that produces the city’s spectacular nighttime skyline, and makes its elevators, subways, and…
Ontario gas-plant cancellations will look like a great idea when gas prices skyrocket
A Forbes contributor has written an article predicting that the North American price of natural gas will hit US$8 per million Btu this winter. The same writer claims to have been predicting this since July of 2012. He bases this…
Ontario energy minister praises Darlington nuclear station, tells Greenpeace how it is
An interesting exchange a week ago in the Ontario legislature gives an idea how the minority Liberal government intends to proceed with ensuring Ontario’s electrical future. The exchange was between energy minister Chris Bentley and NDP energy critic Peter Tabuns.…