Over the past year I have suggested emitting jurisdictions become involved in cap-and-trade systems. Even though the European Emission Trading Scheme, or ETS, is deeply flawed and in desperate need of stronger support from the member countries that tout it…
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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.…
Federal support for Ontario nukes: making it work
There has been a lot of speculation in recent months about exactly how the U.S. Energy Policy Act (EPAct) of 2005 will support new nuclear projects in that country. The EPAct introduced a series of measures—construction delay insurance, loan guarantees,…
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,…