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Offline waldo

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Re: No llores por mí Alberta
« Reply #450 on: December 02, 2019, 11:17:44 am »
whaaa! Where's the divisive, separation enabling, pipelinesOrBust justVisitingJason?  ;D

Sunday... tomorrow... Premiers Blaine Higgs of New Brunswick, Scott Moe of Saskatchewan and Doug Ford of Ontario to make a joint announcement about an inter-provincial plan to cooperate on {Small Modular Reactors - SMRs} nuclear reactors


Natural Resources Canada --- roadmap to engage stakeholders on the future of small modular reactors in Canada

Lefties on my feed are actually supporting this, even though it has come from Conservatives.

I also think it's a good idea.  And any party that moves forward on real change will be rewarded. That said, it's hard to put "Nuclear Innovation" and "Doug Ford" in the same brain, let alone same thought, or sentence.  All they have to do is supply the politics, though, and hopefully this will get put on somebody's to-do list.

except its an initiative that the Department of Natural Resources convened... to bring forward interested provinces, territories, power utilities, Indigenous communities and other stakeholders to support the development of the SMR roadmap - led/facilitated by former Minister of Natural Resources, Amarjeet Sohi. Key stakeholders/project partners were/are:

Ontario Power Generation (OPG), Bruce Power, SaskPower, NB Power, Qulliq Energy Corporation (QEC), Alberta Innovates, Government of New Brunswick - Department of Energy and Resource Development, Government of Northwest Territories - Department of Infrastructure, Government of Ontario - Ontario Ministry of Energy and Atomic Energy of Canada Limited (AECL)

and again, conspicuous by his absence in this Conservative Premier announcement is one justVisitingJason... he who doubled-down on his focus with a trip to Texas last week to meet with Texas based investors and business leaders; expressed as an initiative to, "reaffirm Alberta’s position of energy resources to Texas and North America.

tell me waldo, might the absence of justVisitingJason have anything to do with the significant Alberta UPC budget cut (and resulting layoffs) to Alberta Innovates... did justVisitingJason just gut the prior participation of Alberta Innovates in the SMR Roadmap - inquiring minds need to know justVisitingJason!

in any case, it's the Government of Canada that is currently reviewing the over 50 recommendations within the SMR Roadmap => in areas such as waste management, regulatory readiness, international engagement, etc.. Notwithstanding 'experts' speak of SMR deployment being... still being... 20-30 years out.

Quote from: Amarjeet Sohi, Canada's {former} Minister of Natural Resources
Small modular reactors represent a promising area of energy innovation in Canada. The Roadmap includes recommendations that will help inform ongoing collaboration among federal, provincial and territorial governments — as well as other stakeholders and Indigenous communities — to ensure Canada becomes a global leader in the development of this new technology.