The Ontario government announced Jan. 30 that it would go ahead with refurbishing the Pickering Nuclear Generating Station. Noting that not everyone welcomed the news, the Canadian Nuclear Society‘s Doddy Kastanya and Neil Alexander wrote in an opinion piece for TVO:
“The idea of getting all the electricity we need from things as natural as sunshine and summer breezes is certainly a very seductive one. And it’s no surprise that, when it turned out that both could be harvested cheaply, governments threw themselves wholeheartedly into doing something that seemed like a win-win for voters. But we can’t allow fundamental misunderstandings to cloud our judgment when it come this province’s energy future, and the reality is that the wind and solar dream just is not working and probably never will.”
Read the full article originally published by TVO on Feb. 12, 2024.
