YouTube for Progressives?

I just got an e-mail with a fairly slick video promoting the Green Party. What was even more interesting was that it was hosted on a site called Current.com which is kind of an alternative YouTube. Not all blog entries are videos however. Worth a look-see.

( Green stuff just after this cut . . . )

YouTube for Progressives?

I just got an e-mail with a fairly slick video promoting the Green Party. What was even more interesting was that it was hosted on a site called Current.com which is kind of an alternative YouTube. Not all blog entries are videos however. Worth a look-see.

( Green stuff just after this cut . . . )

And the Winner is . . . Darlington! Darlington, Please Step Up!

The nuke business is Canada is a constant source of curious activity.

New Nuclear Reactor to Be Built at Darlington Site - Toronto Sun - 16 Jun 08

"Darlington has been picked as the site of Ontario's next nuclear reactor, Infrastructure Ontario announced today. Who will build the new two-unit plant - one of Atomic Energy of Canada, France's AREVA NP or Westinghouse Electric - will not be decided until the end of the year."

Nuclear's Changing Fortunes - National Post - 16 June 08

"Canada's nuclear industry does have success stories, but they mostly occur overseas. Atomic Energy of Canada Limited's construction of two of its Candu reactors in China took less time or money than expected when completed five years ago, while three Candu reactors operating in South Korea regularly rate among the world's most productive."

"Others dismiss nuclear's environmental benefits as propaganda put forward by the industry. 'You'd have to have a pretty high price on carbon for that benefit to start to show because of the large up-front costs involved in building a new nuclear plant,' said Shawn-Patrick Stensil, a Greenpeace campaigner. Indeed, a 2003 Massachusetts Institute of Technology study [The Future of Nuclear Power] found a tax of between $100 and $200 per tonne of carbon would be needed to justify construction of new nuclear plants. By way of comparison, the carbon pricing plan recently announced by the NDP called for a price of $35 per tonne."

"The Darlington Nuclear Generating Station, the last plant built in Canada, was five years behind scheduled when it was finished in 1993. Its price tag ballooned to $14-billion from $5-billion."

And the Winner is . . . Darlington! Darlington, Please Step Up!

The nuke business is Canada is a constant source of curious activity.

New Nuclear Reactor to Be Built at Darlington Site - Toronto Sun - 16 Jun 08

"Darlington has been picked as the site of Ontario's next nuclear reactor, Infrastructure Ontario announced today. Who will build the new two-unit plant - one of Atomic Energy of Canada, France's AREVA NP or Westinghouse Electric - will not be decided until the end of the year."

Nuclear's Changing Fortunes - National Post - 16 June 08

"Canada's nuclear industry does have success stories, but they mostly occur overseas. Atomic Energy of Canada Limited's construction of two of its Candu reactors in China took less time or money than expected when completed five years ago, while three Candu reactors operating in South Korea regularly rate among the world's most productive."

"Others dismiss nuclear's environmental benefits as propaganda put forward by the industry. 'You'd have to have a pretty high price on carbon for that benefit to start to show because of the large up-front costs involved in building a new nuclear plant,' said Shawn-Patrick Stensil, a Greenpeace campaigner. Indeed, a 2003 Massachusetts Institute of Technology study [The Future of Nuclear Power] found a tax of between $100 and $200 per tonne of carbon would be needed to justify construction of new nuclear plants. By way of comparison, the carbon pricing plan recently announced by the NDP called for a price of $35 per tonne."

"The Darlington Nuclear Generating Station, the last plant built in Canada, was five years behind scheduled when it was finished in 1993. Its price tag ballooned to $14-billion from $5-billion."