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New China syndrome
Sydney: So you thought Doctor Strangelove died in the rubble of the Berlin Wall? And the N-bomb menace? About as relevant, you say, as Sting bleating on about the Russians loving their children, too? Continue reading
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Getting clear on nuclear and its insidious advertising
The Canadian Nuclear Association is running a slick ad campaign on TV these days hyping the benefits of nuclear power. It’s clean, it’s reliable, it’s affordable. Let’s get clear on nuclear, they say. Yes, let’s.
As the voice of the Canadian nuclear industry, the association is hardly an independent organization. Its members include Atomic Energy of Canada Limited, the federal Crown corporation responsible for promoting nuclear power and which also happens to build Candu reactors.
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Nuclear power predicted for oilpatch
Nuclear power in the oilpatch is just a matter of time, according to Canada’s Natural Resources Minister Gary Lunn.
Speaking to Sun Media from Victoria yesterday, Lunn said he’s very keen to see a new partnership between Crown corporation Atomic Energy of Canada Limited (AECL) and a private Alberta company to build a Candu-reactor to power oilsands extraction.
"It’s not a question of if, it’s a question of when in my mind," said Lunn. "I think nuclear can play a very significant role in the oilsands. I’m very, very keen."
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Letter to the Wall Street Journal in support of Lawrence Solomon’s book, "The Deniers"
(June 16, 2009) Eugenie Samuel Reich’s June 6 list of the “Five Best” books on scientific fraud misses the most egregious scientific fraud to date:the pseudoscience behind global warming hysteria. Including a book like “State of Fear” by Michael Crichton, or “Climate Confusion” by Roy Spencer, or “The Deniers” by Lawrence Solomon, or any one of a number of others would have tied in nicely with your editorial in the same issue, ” ‘Worse Than Fiction,’ ” which was a case study in bad science and global warming alarmism. Continue reading
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Hot climate premiums: Sources
(June 12, 2009) Natural Hazards and the Canadian Insurance Industry by Marc Baker Continue reading
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Hot climate premiums
(June 12, 2009) How the insurance industry uses climate change to charge higher rates and post record profits. Third in a series called ‘Climate Profiteers’. Continue reading
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Conservation – shmonservation: The green-ascetics stifle energy system planning.
For over a century, people in the advanced world, now over a billion, have pressed that switch on the wall and the light has come on. Most people regard this as natural – like the light coming in when the blinds are opened.But it is not.
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Team Candu partnership could form the basis to private sector bid for AECL
Montreal: Expectations of a nuclear power renaissance has SNC-Lavalin contemplating the use of its private-sector Team Candu partnership as a possible vehicle to purchase Atomic Energy of Canada Ltd., says the head of the Quebec company’s nuclear subsidiary. "We’re always looking for acquisitions, whether it’s in the nuclear industry or hydro we’re looking for good companies that have good products that can help us compete and grow on the international market," said Patrick Lamarre, president and CEO of SNC-Lavalin Nuclear Inc., a wholly owned subsidiary of SNC-Lavalin.
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Nuclear reactor a rerun, according to research team
Currently, there are no Candu ACR-100 models in operation in Canada. President of Energy Alberta, Wayne Henuset, calls the ACR-100 an upgraded Candu 6 model, which is under operation throughout Canada. "[The ACR-100] is an advancement and we’re not changing the world here," Henuset said.
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McKinsey to report on reactor options
The Ontario government, which wants to build at least 1,000 megawatts of new nuclear capacity in the province, has hired management consulting firm McKinsey & Co. to produce "independent" assessment of nuclear reactor technologies on the market.
The company’s report, due later this year, won’t recommend a specific technology but will be "important input" on any final decision, according to a statement from the Ministry of Energy.
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