Category Archives: Nuclear Power

Parker Gallant: Wynne Government picks ratepayers pockets for wind turbine developers

Posted on November 17, 2013 by parkergallant2013

(November 16, 2013) While Premier Wynne was out jogging in the countryside – sans any turbines in the background – for the recently released Liberal promo, many of us ratepayers were having our pockets picked. Continue reading →

Posted in Alternative Energy, Climate Change, Costs, Benefits and Risks, Electricity, Nuclear Power, Power Generation in Ontario, Renewables | Tagged Climate Change, electricity, green energy, Nuclear Power, Ontario Energy Board, Parker Gallant, wind turbines | 5 Comments

Parker Gallant: Ontario’s environmental commissioner, serving the public or simply sucking up?

Posted on October 15, 2013 by parkergallant2013

(October 14, 2013) On October 10, 2013, Ontario Environmental Commissioner Gord Miller released his 194-page annual report titled, “Serving the Public,” and backed it up with a “supplement” that ran to 247 pages. His press conference at 10 a.m. on that day attracted little attention resulting in only minor media coverage. Continue reading →

Posted in Climate Change, Conservation, Costs, Benefits and Risks, Electricity, Natural Gas, Natural Gas Utility Regulation and Commodity Deregulation, Nuclear Power, Power Generation in Ontario, Privatization, Renewables | Tagged Climate Change, Crown land, Global Warming, Gord Miller, green energy, Ontario, Ontario Power Authority, Parker Gallant, Renewable Energy, wind power, wind turbines | 3 Comments

New Brunswick nuclear reactor set to return to service

Posted on November 14, 2012 by energyprbe

(November 14, 2012) The longs delays and major cost overruns associated with the Point Lepreau nuclear power plant refurbishment, due for completion this fall, underscore the risks associated with nuclear technology, says Energy Probe’s Norm Rubin. “Because it’s nuclear it is inherently hazardous and everything has to go right … every kind of small boo-boo turns into a megaproject boo-boo,” said Rubin, who also notes that the peculiar nature of some of the refurbishment project’s problems has “turned this thing into a laughing stock … like dropping a turbine into the ocean.” Continue reading →

Posted in New Brunswick Power, Nuclear Power | Tagged New Brunswick, Norm Rubin, nuclear hazard, Point Lepreau generating station refurbishment, project cost overruns | 1 Comment

Listen to Energy Probe on Green Majority

Posted on August 21, 2012 by energyprbe

(August 21, 2012) Energy Probe’s Director of Research, Norman Rubin, joined a roundtable on nuclear energy in Canada hosted by the environmental news radio program ‘Green Majority’ (CIUT FM 89.5), which you can listen to in full at the link supplied. Continue reading →

Posted in Alternative Energy, Energy Probe News, Nuclear Power, Nuclear Safety, Power Generation in Ontario, Renewables | Tagged Canada's Nuclear Liability Act, energy supply in Ontario, Norman Rubin, Renewable Energy | Leave a comment

Candu strike could threaten service to 34 units worldwide

Posted on July 10, 2012 by energyprbe

(June 22, 2012) Even if the strike is not affecting Candu’s current business, and the engineers eventually return to work, Candu may end up primarily a servicing company for its old reactors. Meanwhile, skepticism regarding the completion of two new reactors planned for Darlington and the refurbishment of four existing units remains high. “The Darlington Refurbishment is like something from Alice and Wonderland,” says Energy Probe’s Norm Rubin. Continue reading →

Posted in Energy Probe News, Nuclear Economics, Nuclear Power, Uncategorized | Tagged Candu Energy, Darlington, Norm Rubin, nuclear, SNC-Lavalin, strike | Leave a comment

Lawrence Solomon: The Green Goliath takes on nuclear

Posted on December 12, 2011 by Lawrence Solomon

The renewable industry is wrong to claim that it is cost effective. Continue reading →

Posted in Nuclear Power | Tagged environmentalism, Feed-In Tariffs, green energy, Hormesis, Lawrence Solomon, nuclear, Nuclear Power, OSEA, Provincial Auditor, Radiation, renewables, solar, wind | Leave a comment

Academics: Aliens may threaten to destroy Earth

Posted on September 19, 2011 by energyprbe

Columnist Robin Beres asks, if aliens were coming to judge us for fossil fuel use, wouldn’t they have passed sentence several hundred years ago for, say, coal. Continue reading →

Posted in Climate Change, Coal, Energy Probe News, Fossil Fuels, Nuclear Power | Tagged Al Gore, Alien Energy Shields, Climate Change, Director, Energy Probe Research Foundation, European Organization for Nuclear Research, Food, Greenhouse Gas Emissions, Habibullo Abdussamatov, Lawrence Solomon | Leave a comment

Lawrence Solomon: Just a (nuclear) waste

Posted on September 9, 2011 by Lawrence Solomon

(September 9, 2011) Canada’s nuclear industry is again plying the back routes of Ontario’s northlands, looking for a willing host in places like Hornepayne (population 1209) and Ear Falls (population 1153) for a multi-billion-dollar long-term storage facility for the country’s nuclear wastes. Continue reading →

Posted in Hormesis, LNT, Nuclear Power, Nuclear Waste, Radiation | Tagged Hormesis, Lawrence Solomon, LNT, nuclear, nuclear reactors, nuclear waste disposal, Nuclear Waste Management Organization, NWMO, Ontario, radiation hormesis, spent fuel | Leave a comment

Lawrence Solomon: Death of a maverick

Posted on June 7, 2011 by Other News Sources

(June 7, 2011) Rosalyn Sussman Yalow, winner of a 1977 Nobel prize in medicine and a lifelong fighter against personal and professional prejudice in science, died last week at age 89. Continue reading →