Please go to Wind Concerns Ontario’s website to catch up on all the reaction and links to news stories and columns about the new Long Term Energy Plan, announced on Monday. www.windconcernsontario.ca
On Rick Gibbins Lunch Bunch on CFRA today, Carleton business prof Ian Lee said he cannot believe what Ontario is doing to itself. No matter what political stripe the Ontario government was in the past, he said, there was always the understanding that in order to compete with the northeastern States, we had to keep our power prices low. Not now: this is suicide, he said.
What not many commentators are noting however is the disastrous effect this will have on Ontario’s small towns and rural communities, because we are hit harder by the delivery charges, and because we need power for everything including pumps for our wells, electric fencing for livestock, etc. Local stores don’t have the choice of turning off meat freezers or display lights.
Our young families and people on limited incomes will be hit hard–many are already at their limit.
Worse, the government seems determined to push ahead with its wind power agenda, which will mean devastation of our communities environmentally and financially. As the Globe and Mail said in an editorial yesterday (see the Wind Concerns site) “If you know you’re in a hole, stop digging!”
You may write to Minister Chiarelli at write2us@ontario.ca to express how his price-pushing, wind-agenda plan will affect you and your family.
There is a demonstration being planned for Minister Chiarelli’s office on Saturday December 7th at 1 PM. If we get more details, we will post.
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The Ontario Liberal green energy plan is predicated on the fact that many urban dwellers have bought in to the global warming religion (and it has all the characteristics of a religious belief). Consequently they will accept any indignity, any absurdity as long as you tell them that it’s going to save the planet. Urban dwellers aren’t affected by the proximity of industrial wind turbines, and usually have access to natural gas heating systems which tends to insulate them from rising electricity costs. Only when manufacturing jobs start heading south in large numbers because of rising power costs will there be an urban backlash – but by then it will be too late. Once those jobs are gone, they’re gone for ever.
We heard Ottawa Councillor and Deputy Mayor Steve Desroches on CFRA today, saying nuclear was not “safe” as a power option because of “what happened in Japan.”
Some education needed there: that nuclear reactor was weeks away from being permanently decommissioned when it went through one of the worst earth quakes in history, followed by one of the worst tidal waves in history….It is an example of nothing.
Much as the anti-nuclear activists like to present doom-and-gloom scenarios based on previous nuclear incidents, I think we should introduces some hard facts concerning the Fukushima incident.
1. The problem occurred because of a simple design flaw. When the earthquake struck, the reactors immediately shut down, as they were designed to do. However, these old-technology reactors require power to pump cooling water through the reactor cores for several days after shutdown. This power is normally supplied by on-site diesel generators. Unfortunately, these were mounted in the basement area, and were flooded out when the tsunami struck. Had the generators been mounted on top of the reactor buildings rather than below grade, we would never have heard of Fukushima.
2. All was not lost at this point, because the Tokyo Electric Power Company which owned the reactors maintained a fleet of truck-mounted diesel generators for precisely this scenario. However, the chaos caused by the earthquake meant that it took 24 hours for the generators to reach Fukushima, by which time it was too late to retrieve the situation.
3. And by the way … number of fatalities directly attributable to the earthquake and tsunami: 18,500. Number of fatalities linked to short-term over-exposure to radiation at Fukushima: zero.
Could this happen in Canada? Highly unlikely. For one thing, the Candu reactor which is used in this country does not require power to circulate cooling water after an emergency shutdown – it operates by natural convection.
Are nuclear reactors absolutely, 100% safe? No, of course not, and nor is anything else in this world (think about Lac Megantic or Bhopal, or any road accident). Are they as safe or safer, and have less overall environmental impact than most other forms of power generation? Yes, I think they are.