Big costs sink flagship nuclear project and will sink future small modular reactor projects, too
Adverse economics killed the flagship NuScale SMR project. There is no reason to believe the costs of SMR designs proposed in Canada will be any lower. Are government officials hearing the alarm bells?
‘Everything is not going right for them’: feds’ confusing messaging on pause on home heating oil carbon pricing puts them ‘on the defensive,’ says Nanos
It could be difficult for the Liberal Party to outflank the Conservatives on affordability issues and to recover in the polls, says president and Innovative Research Group founder Greg Lyle.
Young leaders question Canada on nuclear disarmament
Together, we can steer Canada toward a nuclear weapons-free future thereby ensuring the safety of our country, the health of our planet, and the preservation of our humanity.
Revving up Canada’s energy independence: why biofuels incentives are vital
Canada has enormous potential to be global leader in biofuels production, but it has to compete with the tax credits being offered south of the border by the U.S.’s Inflation Reduction Act.
Newfoundland residents frustrated with carbon tax, have mixed reviews of their Liberal MPs, including Seamus O’Regan
‘I think it will still take more time for all those Liberal MPs to go back into their constituency and make the case to people in those ridings that they had sway,’ said David Coletto of Abacus Data.
Nuclear energy is not ‘clean’ or ‘green’ in the European Union’s taxonomy
The claim made in an Oct. 13 letter to MPs from the Canadian Nuclear Association—stating that the EU ‘formally voted to include nuclear energy in its EU taxonomy’—is partially true, but misleading, write Susan O’Donnell and Madis Vassar.
Cool the carbon-pricing debate and focus on solutions that make people’s lives better
The almost gravity-like pull carbon pricing exerts on public attention often takes away from other important steps that could be potentially more effective in terms of emissions reductions.
Deep efficiency retrofits are the only lasting fix to energy affordability
There is a clear path forward for the federal government out of their carbon tax mess if it offers a new income-targeted retrofit program to all provinces and all fuel types.
Supreme Court dares Canada’s polarized politics to do better
Supreme Court Chief Justice Richard Wagner and his fellow jurists have done their job. Now it is up to the politicians. The hurry up offence doesn’t work in a courtroom.
Radiation ‘a dangerous health hazard so let’s be truly informed about it,’ writes Geary
Re: “Nuclear power isn’t really so scary when you understand it,” (The Hill Times, Oct. 9, by Neil Alexander and Doddy Kastany). Understandably, the job of these Canadian Nuclear Society writers is to advance and promote all things nuclear. Not any specific innovation, but rather a wider don’t-worry-be-happy psychological acceptance of nuclear technology and radiation in general. […]
