Saturday, January 28, 2006

Say "No thanks!" to more nuclear power in Ontario

I haven't been reading a lot of news lately, but I have become aware that the Ontario Power Authority, a governmental agency, released a report last month saying that Ontario needs at least 12 more nuclear reactors to meet future energy demand. Apparently the report exaggerated the rates at which energy demand will increase (assumed annual 9% increase when it's been around 5% annually over the last several years), and basically completely discounted the viability of green, safe energy sources. (Norway uses wind power, for example, to generate 20% of its energy requirement; Ontario only gets 1% of its current energy from wind power - this is obviously an under-developed energy source!)

So here are a few links, in case you feel moved - as I did - to write our Premier asking him to ignore this OPA report and to explore safer alternatives, or for more information: here and here and here and here.

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