Let’s build a nuclear power plant to increase our energy supply! (Or we could build a lot of solar power towers at a fraction of the price, with no nuclear waste generated.)
Let’s focus on Clean Coal, and then delay its implementation further! (It’s okay, CCS is simply a way of putting North Dakota’s CO(2) into the Weyburn oil field so more oil is pushed out into tanks for refining and burning.)
Let’s add solar power to the grid, at a rate of 50 customers a year, in a province of 1,010,000! (At that rate, it will only take 2000 years to convert 100K customers.)
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I thought there was a decision to abandon new nuke power in SK (?) At any rate, the only way new nukes can happen is with a massive influx of “dumb money” from the taxpayer. Here’s an interesting piece from the US on this issue. I think Canadians can learn from it, too.
http://www.theepochtimes.com/n2/content/view/46851/
As you know, there’s nothing preventing governments from changing their mind on wasting money on nuclear power, whenever the public lets their guard down.
Agreed! Eternal vigilance is needed when we’re talking about the nuke pushers. The nuke industry has deep pockets (courtesy of the public purse) which they use for some of the slickest PR and lobbying of any industry. The whole “nuclear renaissance” meme was an industry-manufactured phrase with zero basis in reality. Any renaissance is merely wishful thinking but if governments buy the idea that there is a renaissance, they may be inclined to jump on the (non-existent) bandwagon.
http://thetyee.ca/Opinion/2011/01/12/PromiseOfPumpingCO2/
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I wonder why there are no ads on TV now about the “nuclear renaissance”? LOL
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