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Ontario’s municipal electric utilities raising rates
(October 22, 1999) Ontario’s municipal electric utilities – Toronto Hydro, Ottawa Hydro and other local distribution companies that deliver power to city consumers – will be allowed to raise their rates to the average customer by about one-third next year under a proposed Ontario Energy Board staff plan. Continue reading
Utilities may take energy board to court
(October 20, 1999) Municipal utilities are expected to take the Ontario Energy Board to court over a decision they say cuts them out of the best parts of deregulation in the electricity market. Continue reading
Flat rates for homeowners get OEB okay
(October 19, 1999) Homeowners will keep paying a flat rate for electricity under an Ontario Energy Board decision yesterday, but could face once-a-year price shocks as utilities adjust their bills to reflect changes in electricity prices. Continue reading
Completing the Cernavoda-2 Reactor: A Bad Risk for Canada
(March 1, 1999) Twenty-five years ago, the former Ceaucescu regime had plans for 15 to 20 CANDU reactors. However, forced labour was used on the Cernavoda nuclear station, and faulty construction and manufacturing were widespread. After Ceaucescu was deposed in 1989, much of the nuclear infrastructure in Romania was dissolved, and only one reactor was completed. The first CANDU reactor at Cernavoda went into operation in December 1996 — about 20 years after the first agreement betweeen Canada and Romania was signed. Continue reading
Costly cleanup could sink industry
(February 20, 1999) Canada’s nuclear industry risks running short of cash for the $11-billion job of disposing of its nuclear waste, a federal cabinet memo says. Continue reading
No consensus on nuclear waste
(December 4, 1998) Neville Nankivell’s “Nuclear waste becoming hot issue” (November 26) brings much-needed attention to the important issue of nuclear waste, and the crucial decision now facing the federal government. Most vividly and sympathetically, he presents the “disgruntlement” of Canada’s nuclear industry over recent setbacks. Continue reading
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Hold the extras
(October 1, 1998) “My train reached the Danube at Cernavoda, a name that sounds ominously similar to Chernobyl. Here, in one of the world’s most unstable earthquake zones, Ceausescu had decided to build Romania’s first power station.” Continue reading
Quake-up call
(October 1, 1998) Will tremors like the one last week make us rue the day we built nuclear reactors atop an earthquake zone? Think of a toy snowdome. In the middle is a nuclear plant. Pick it up. Shak it a bit. Drop it. Meltdown. Continue reading
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Candu ‘owners’ club’ to fold
(July 31, 1998) TORONTO — An exclusive organization that promotes Candu nuclear reactors abroad and provides safety and technical advice to the people who run them is being dismantled. Continue reading
Posted in Nuclear Economics, Nuclear Plant Security, Nuclear Power, Towards Shutdown
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Nuclear suppliers don’t need Candus
(July 11, 1998) The Canadian Press / Critics of Canada’s nuclear industry says the sale of Candu reactors, such as the one above, to foreign countries does more harm than good to Canadians because such sales are heavily subsidized by Canada. Continue reading
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