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Greenwashing pots and kettles, Part IV: RBC should finance competent singers...
Last time we mentioned the grid-scale problems inherent in RBC’s investment into “green energy.” RBC’s very own “green” investment in Alberta, which includes the Rattlesnake Ridge wind farm near...
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Greenwashing pots and kettles, Part V: helping the elephant escape the Circus
Prologue: allegory of a one-time political dynasty There was once a successful Premier of Ontario, who took directions to a road promising everlasting electoral success and praise in posterity for...
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April 2024 | CNWC Newsletter
National Director’s Message Canada is at the forefront of a global surge in support for nuclear energy. We’re seeing the good news continue in 2024.The list is long, and positive. It begins with...
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The Ontario LWR debate that never was, and an artist’s rendition of what it...
The ’topes that brought the MAPLE-sticky company down In 2008, Ontario Power Generation (OPG) began a public competitive bidding process to select a new nuclear reactor design to build at the...
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Recommendations not (yet) followed: Ontario electricity planning process...
Easter Bunny, meet the Black Swan A Black Swan event occurred in interprovincial electricity trade, beginning in November 2023. It consisted of Quebec importing electricity from Ontario nearly...
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Recommendations not (yet) followed, Part II: affordability platitudes are...
Decarbonization requires non-emitting baseload: more boring, please Last time we discussed the process by which Ontario plans and executes electricity system changes. The organization mandated to...
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June 2024 | CNWC Newsletter
National Director’s Message Concerns are frequently raised regarding the availability of Workers with the required skills to support new nuclear development in Canada. This is an important issue, but...
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Greenwash redux in Ontario: what greenwashers get and nukes don’t
Why do organizational transformations fail? Watchers of Ontario’s energy debates were treated over the past weekend to yet another helping of recycled misinformation on the relative merits of various...
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September 2024 | CNWC Newsletter
National Director’s Message The CNWC is holding its annual conference in Saskatoon this year. The conference begins with tours of Cameco’s McArthur River Mine and Orano’s McClean Lake Mil. Rotating...
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Germany’s 540 on nuclear power: the power of Big Lies, repeated
Prologue: A Millennial drive round the roundabout You’re driving down the road and come to a roundabout and realize you’re going the wrong way, so you circle the roundabout till you’re facing the way...
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