11 April 2019

Flashback Seaway nuclear waste shipment never had a chance

By Richard Tardif When the Canadian Nuclear Safety Commission (CNSC) in 2011 granted a transport license to Ontario’s Bruce Power to ship 16-mothballed generators containing unpredictable levels of plutonium, the proposal was already dead in the water, sort of speak. In the end it was another sign of a mass environmental concern trumping over corporate concern. The […]

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AOC and Easter Island. Will we end up in the ocean?

By Richard Tardif In very broad strokes, Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y., and Sen. Ed Markey, D-Mass., in February 2019 introduced a framework defining what they call a “Green New Deal” — what they foresee as a massive policy package that would remake the US economy and eliminate all U.S. carbon emissions. The deal sets goals for some drastic

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