By Alastair Sharp Carbon emissions from Ontario’s electricity sector are set to almost triple over the next decade, as gas-fired generation largely fills the void left by major nuclear refurbishments and the dismantling of green energy under Doug Ford’s Progressive Conservative government. The sharp jump in Ontario’s reliance on natural gas — the only source of […]
Too much wind and solar raises power system costs
The following is a contributed article by John Reilly, a co-director of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology Joint Program on the Science and Policy of Global Change, and an energy, environmental and agricultural economist. If solar panels and wind turbines keep getting cheaper, why bother building anything else? Because as we add more solar panels […]
The Nuclear Option Is the Real Green Deal.
Alan Emery has spoken to the CACOR lunnch meetings in Ottawa recently; this appeared in the Wall Street Journal on Feb 25. The Nuclear Option Is the Real Green Deal. A coal plant produces about as much toxic waste in an hour as a nuclear plant produces in a year. John Rie and Alan Emery […]
Going Renewable Means Phasing Out Our Aging Nuclear Reactors
Going renewable means phasing out our aging nuclear reactors. Ontario is the 2nd most nuclearized jurisdiction in the world – we get 60% of our electricity from 18 nuclear reactors. But accidents happen, and when nuclear accidents happen, they’re catastrophic. What would happen if a serious nuclear accident, similar to what took place in Fukushima, Japan […]