Nuclear power proposal for Alberta withdrawn by company

[kristopher]

Nuclear power proposal for Alberta withdrawn by company
By Nicki Thomas and Elise Stolte, edmontonjournal.com December 12, 2011 9:06 PM

EDMONTON - Bruce Power has abandoned plans to build a nuclear power plant in northern Alberta, the Ontario-based energy company announced Monday.

The company had proposed building up to four nuclear reactors that could produce 4,000 megawatts of electricity at a site 30 kilometres north of Peace River. The option had been under consideration since 2007 and the project appeared to be moving along, with the company conducting an environmental assessment last year.

A statement from the company gave little explanation for the decision, other than a renewed focus on its existing nuclear facility in Ontario.

“We’ve decided the new nuclear option in Alberta is not something our company will be progressing further,” Duncan Hawthorne, Bruce Power’s president and CEO, said in a news release. “I’d like to thank the many people in Peace Country who stood with us to investigate an option for Alberta’s energy future and for welcoming us into your community. I have no doubt there will come a day when nuclear will have a place in a balanced supply mix in Alberta.”

The provincial government...

http://www.edmontonjournal.com/news/Nuclear+power+proposal+Alberta+withdrawn+company/5849123/story.html

[Joe Shlabotnik]

1. Big oil strikes again??

Not that I'm fan or an expert of Nuclear, but transparency on the part of government has become a thing of the past. Oddly the edmontonjournal link wouldn't open for me, so maybe Big OIL got to them first! Ok, I'll take my tinfoil hat off now.

[JohnyCanuck]

2. Try this link instead:

http://tinyurl.com/NuclearPrposalWithdrawn

It looks like the "+" signs in the URL in the OP were caused problems for the DU software so the URL got truncated.

[kristopher]

3. Cut and paste the link, for some reason DU wont accept its formatting.

As for "big oil", no that isn't it at all. First, they lowballed the price; they would have never been able to deliver for the numbers they claimed. Since they couldn't talk the government into committing to the project they had to give it up since the economics just don't work in a world moving inexorably towards ever cheaper renewables. The government wants to spend the money they have on transmission to enable wind.

[joshcryer]

4. Death to Gen III/III+!

Stupid archaic technology that produces copious amounts of nuclear waste.