Forward thinkers and Movers…

Forward thinkers and Movers...

 

Ontario must follow the Worldwide trend of city planners and larger Geographic regions by committing to a 100% renewable future. Combining the reduced costs of solar and wind energy  and increasingly effective storage options with  ongoing research indicating improvements in Smart Grids and power transmission capabilities, these together offer convincing reasons for change from costly and dangerous Nuclear power generation to sustainable and clean energy alternatives.

 

Energy Consumers are increasingly choosing cheaper smarter technologies with ever increasing efficiencies and decreasing power demands and system loads. Yet, Ontario has chosen to re-invest in expensive and dangerous nuclear technologies.

 

Nuclear Storage facilities should have 24/7 military protection....Storage of dangerous radioactive waste should be  contained on-site within well guarded military bases outside of populated urban areas.....This will lead to reduced costs; costs which are not factored into the REAL COSTS of nuclear power generation.

 

Finally, the newly established limits for insurance in the " Nuclear Liability and Compensation Act" coming into effect January of 2017 is a dangerous and preposterously low limit...which " • Sets the absolute liability limit of an operator of a nuclear installation to an amount that will gradually increase to $1 billion over 4 years – from $650 million at proclamation,

 

$750 million, $850 million, $1 billion "

 

1 Billion?  That puny amount will not cover the costs for damage to the immediate physical locality of Bay Ridges built so  near the Pickering Nuclear Power Plant, let alone a vast area of Southern Ontario..... There are  @ 3000 businesses and @ 20000 residential units in the area. As home and business insurance do not cover auto, home/condo/apt., nor businesses in the event of Nuclear disaster....

 

Liability insurance rising from 2016 at 650 million to 1 Billion dollars by 2021?  Really?

 

Let's do some very basic,  very simplistic figures....

 

What would each family or business be compensated for in the event of a catastrophic loss? Consider water damage alone, as an example... At 100+ thousand dollars per claim per household- loss of use, relocation, alternate accommodation, loss of personal property value, etc.... there goes your billion dollars for a small community located within 10 km of the Pickering Nuclear Power plant... and this

 

doesn't account for lost business, labour, manufacturing etc... nor loss of life, limb, nor long term disease....

 

Insurance must necessarily be in the magnitude of tens or hundreds of Trillions...!  Not a Billion....!

 

"The tragedy at the Fukushima nuclear plant will cost 11.08 trillion yen ($105 billion), twice as much as Japanese authorities predicted at the end of 2011"

 

Sourced from          en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fukushima_Daiichi_nuclear_disaster

 

Nuclear energy requires  REAL COSTING..... Construction Cost overruns??? Liability Insurance ??? 10,000 years of safe Storage???

 

Setting renewable energy alternatives on the back shelf? 100% may not be achievable with yesterdays technology and political thinking; but our future, Ontario's Future, Ontario's  Energy Plan requires the implementation of modern technologies and modern, forward thinking .....

 

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