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Canada running out of clean, reliable electricity to fight pollution, climate...
Pickering Nuclear plant exit looms, threatening Ontario’s reputation for clean electricity PICKERING’S EXIT IS FAST APPROACHING. Ontario’s reputation as a clean energy jurisdiction is in jeopardy, as...
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September 2023 | CNWC Newsletter
National Director’s Message Nuclear is the cleanest and safest source of energy in human history. Some people might not agree but the facts support this statement. Whether we are looking at carbon...
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Greenwashing Pot calls the greenwashing Kettle… a greenwasher
Trouble in ESG land Ecojustice, a Canadian ENGO (environmental non-government organization), has gone to war against the biggest of the Canadian Big Five Banks and perennial TSX top-ten market cap...
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Greenwashing pots and kettles, Part II: the bankers’ side of the story
Defenders of the environment, like the Land Rover Defender In the last post we looked at the Canadian federal Competition Bureau complaint against Royal Bank of Canada (RBC) alleging RBC is guilty of...
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December 2023 | CNWC Newsletter
National Director’s Message It’s been another outstanding year for Canada’s nuclear industry but a few recent events warrant attention. First, a pro-nuclear resolution was passed without opposition...
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Greenwashing pots and kettles, Part III: how the bankers got it wrong
Mollifying Ecojustice and powering industry We left off last time critiquing RBC’s foray into Alberta wind power, and speculated that the purpose of this move was to pre-empt the accusation that it...
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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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