Alberta Tar Sand Nuc Shelved - Keystone Pipeline
The Alberta Tar Sand (Keystone Pipeline) Nuclear power plant project is shelved by Energy Alberta.
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Bruce Power officially pulls the plug on nuclear power in Alberta
Markham Hislop | December 13, 2011
Ontario company has been considering building a nuclear power plant in Alberta since 2007
Nuclear power has been taken off the table after four years of consideration by Bruce Power, an Ontario-based company that operates provides one-quarter of that province’s electricity.
Bruce Power has announced it will no longer advance the option for a new nuclear plant in Alberta that has been under consideration by the company since 2007.
“Throughout our existence at Bruce Power we’ve looked at a number of potential business development opportunities,” said Duncan Hawthorne, Bruce Power’s CEO. “We’ve decided the new nuclear option in Alberta is not something our company will be progressing further.”
Since late-2007, when Bruce Power acquired Energy Alberta, the company has become known in Alberta and Peace Country, developing and evaluating the possibility of building a new nuclear facility to power Alberta’s growing economy.
“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,” Hawthorne said. “I have no doubt there will come a day when nuclear will have a place in a balanced supply mix in Alberta.”
The Alberta government also opened the door to considering the nuclear option, under some conditions, following a public consultation process throughout the province. After extensive analysis and environmental studies, Bruce Power also identified an ideal site.
“There is no question, the option for a new nuclear facility in Peace Country and in Alberta is a strong one and will be an important consideration moving forward,” Hawthorne said. “Over the last several years, we’ve had strong support from a number of elected officials and citizens in the community and that support continued to grow as the facts about nuclear power became known both in this community and throughout Alberta.”
Bruce Power is a partnership among Cameco Corporation, TransCanada Corporation, BPC Generation Infrastructure Trust (a trust established by the Ontario Municipal Employees Retirement System) the Power Workers’ Union and The Society of Energy Professionals.
USA Job LOSSES from XXL Pipeline
From the Cornell Study
Pipe dreams? Jobs gained, jobs lost by the construction of Keystone xl
CORNELL UNIVERSITY GLOBAL LABOR INSTITUTE
“it is unfortunate that the numbers generated by TransCanada, the industry, and the Perryman study have been subject to so little scrutiny, because they clearly inflate the projections for the numbers of direct, indirect, and long-term induced jobs that KXL might expect to create. What is being offered by the proponents is advocacy to build support for KXL, rather than serious research aimed to inform public debate and responsible decision making. By repeating inflated job numbers, the supporters of KXL approval are doing an injustice to the American public in that expectations are raised for jobs that simply cannot be met. These numbers—hundreds of thousands of jobs—then get packaged as if KXL were a major jobs program capable of registering some kind of significant impact on unemployment levels and the overall economy. This is plainly untrue.”
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