It was a multibillion dollar handout and that’s why they spent so much and fought tooth and nail to save it. It goes to prove that money can only get you so far. They just could not buytheir way past the fact that it was an expensive and idiotic project.

        Tdub said:

Absolutely. The problem will be getting another CANDU station built in Ontario without public and political backlash and the associated immense cost overruns.

No ****.

Sorry I just posted a comment on the NEI site in response to earlier one by Dr. F. R. Greening a mouthpiece for Grand Erie Energy Quest an organization that’s fighting to keep the damned Nanticoke Generating Station open. They want Ontario Power Generation, who owns the plant to convert it to clean-coal, or gas, but not nuclear as planned.

Their website is full of the usual lies about nuclear energy and links to our favorite folks in the antinuclear movement. I believe that they are more worried about the losses of jobs and revenue in the county than anything else, however this is not explicitly said. Statements by local politicians made elsewhere, however make their concerns clear.

        Gordon said:

True, but if you saw some of the things that go on in Alberta to recover the tar sands, you’d be a bit less proud of the Canadian policy on the environment

Well, Gordon, much as I agree that the Alberta tar sands projects have a big enviornmental footprint the truth is they’re just filling a market need. At least Canada holds them to higher standards than a lot of countries would.

        drbuzz0 said:

        DV82XL said:

When they close the 4GW Nanticoke Generating Station, the largest coal burning plant in Canada, which is scheduled to happen in 2014, coal will drop to only 15% of the country’s energy mix.

Cutting back that much is something you and other Canadians should be proud of.

Absolutely. The problem will be getting another CANDU station built in Ontario without public and political backlash and the associated immense cost overruns. Unfortunately most people simply do not understand that if we want clean, reliable and efficient energy at high capacities now, nuclear is our best option. Especially for Canada, which has very rich Uranium deposits that could sustain domestic power production for millennia.

        TYLER said:

I think everyone here can tell who the real coward is.

On this we are completely in agreement.

Dave G and DV82XL I am also in agreement on regarding the character of this person. Drbuzz0, is being ridiculously tolerant and open with the response to this.

        TYLER said:

I think everyone here can tell who the real coward is.

You got that bit right. We can also tell who the real poser is.

Tyler, I am someone who favors the use of nuclear power. It is my considered opinion, after taking into account all the facts and information at my disposal, and analysing the situation to the best of my personal ability, that a wholesale shift to the use of power generated by nuclear fission is by far the best policy that humanity could currently pursue worldwide in order to secure a sustainable, wealthy, humane and open future. I want to see the impoverished regions of the world develop to the point where they become bastions of wealth, well-being, liberty and enlightenment. I want to see the already developed regions of the Earth continue their upward momentum without cost to the future and the present. I want to see an enlightened human civilisation establish itself and secure its seat for a future without foreseeable limits. This is why I support nuclear power. There is, to the best of my knowledge, no hope of accomplishing any of those goals without it.

Is this what you want to torture and kill me for?