Save the Trees Boycott Newspapers(eg Toronto Star) that lobby for Fossil Fuels or Nuclear Power
Calling on all Peoples, Communities, Groups, Individuals etc., to Save Trees and our Beloved Earth- to Boycott all newspapers that lobby for Fossil Fuels(eg. King Coal-Natural gas Plants) or Nuclear power. This we must do – this is the “Hour of Earth”
Calling on all Peoples, Communities, Groups, Individuals etc., to Save Trees and our Beloved Earth- to Boycott all newspapers that lobby for Fossil Fuels(eg. King Coal-Natural gas Plants) or Nuclear power. This we must do – this is the “Hour of Earth”
Save the Trees Boycott Newspapers(eg Toronto Star) that lobby for Fossil Fuels or Nuclear Power
Calling on all Peoples, Communities, Groups, Individuals etc., to Save Trees and our Beloved Earth- to Boycott all newspapers that lobby for Fossil Fuels(eg. King Coal-Natural gas Plants) or Nuclear power. This we must do – this is the “Hour of Earth”
Does the Seattle P-I Going 100% Web Signal the End of Newspapers?
BY Kit EatonTue Mar 17, 2009 at 11:30 AM
http://www.fastcompany.com/blog/kit-eaton/technomix/does-seattle-p-i-going-100-online-signal-end-newspapers
As of today the Seattle Post-Intelligencer is a 100% online publication, with the final print run of its paper edition already complete. Does this move sound a death knell for physical newspapers?
has no future
Save the Trees Boycott Newspapers(eg Toronto Star) that lobby for Fossil Fuels or Nuclear Power
March 17, 2009
Save the Trees Boycott Newspapers(eg Toronto Star) that lobby for Fossil Fuels or Nuclear Power
(This document is given to global politicians, energy stakeholders, banks and global grassroots networks etc)
Calling on all Peoples, Communities, Groups, Individuals etc., to Save Trees and our Beloved Earth- to Boycott all newspapers that lobby for Fossil Fuels(eg. King Coal-Natural gas Plants) or Nuclear power. This we must do – this is the “Hour of Earth”
Does the Seattle P-I Going 100% Web Signal the End of Newspapers?
BY Kit EatonTue Mar 17, 2009 at 11:30 AM
http://www.fastcompany.com/blog/kit-eaton/technomix/does-seattle-p-i-going-100-online-signal-end-newspapers
As of today the Seattle Post-Intelligencer is a 100% online publication, with the final print run of its paper edition already complete. Does this move sound a death knell for physical newspapers?
EDITORIAL(TORONTO STAR)
TheStar.com | Opinion | ‘Green energy’ includes nuclear
‘Green energy’ includes nuclear
Feb 24, 2009 04:30 AM
http://www.thestar.com/comment/article/591935
EDITORIAL (Toronto Star calls for Nuclear Power)
TheStar.com | Opinion | Liberals credible on energy policy
Liberals credible on energy policy
http://www.thestar.com/article/264182
EDITORIAL (Toronto Star calls for Nuclear Power)
TheStar.com | Opinion | Liberals credible on energy policy
Liberals credible on energy policy
http://www.thestar.com/article/264182
Ontario residents want a reliable supply of electricity that keeps the lights on and their homes and businesses running smoothly. But as concerns grow over smog and global warming, they also want their power to be clean, as well as reasonably priced.
In assessing the choices the Liberals, Conservatives and New Democratic Party have put forward, voters should reject both wishful thinking that would leave Ontario short of future energy needs, and short-sighted plans that would jeopardize long-term environmental goals…
On that basis, NDP Leader Howard Hampton’s plan to close all coal-fired generating stations by 2014 yet build no new nuclear plants just is not plausible. He says he can make up power lost by closing the coal-fired plants with renewable energy, such as wind, solar and water, and “aggressive conservation.”..
For Liberal Leader Dalton McGuinty, energy policy is a thorny subject. In the 2003 election, he pledged to shut all coal-fired plants by this year, a pledge he eventually had to move back to 2014. But to his credit, he has cleaned up the mess left by the previous Conservative government, whose attempts to privatize parts of the electricity sector proved disastrous,..
In the long term, it calls for investments of up to $27 billion on new and refurbished nuclear stations to ensure Ontario has adequate generating capacity.
By supporting this approach, which represents the best mix for balancing cost, energy security and environmental concerns, the Liberals have adopted a more credible strategy for providing cleaner and reliable power for this province in the years ahead.
Note: On Oct, 9 2007 we wrote the following:
http://portland.indymedia.org/en/2007/10/366521.shtml
Toronto Star goes Nuclear:
a betrayal of the founding principles of the Toronto Star
2 days before Ontario election the venerable “social justice” Toronto Star endorses a pro-nuclear stance. How can this be in line with Atkinson’s founding principles that guides Toronto Star? The Toronto Star pushes anti-poverty campaign series yet encourages tens of billions to be spent on privatized nuclear power. How many social programs to be cut or downscaled to pay for this - including on the backs of children?
EDITORIAL ” Liberals credible on energy policy” http://www.thestar.com/article/264182
Today the situation is fiscally, economic, and socially graver. Tens of Billions to pay for outdated and dangerous nuclear technology. Where is the money coming from-the Banks-the federal gov’t-Wal-mart-maybe Santa Clause? And what will be left over for the new energy economy-environment-anti-poverty programs? Where is the immense pressure coming from-it takes 10-15 years to build these white toxic elephants-
Shakeup at Torstar
GRANT ROBERTSON AND GORDON PITTS
From Friday's Globe and Mail Friday, February 27
http://ago.mobile.globeandmail.com/generated/archive/RTGAM/html/20090227/wrtorstar27.html
When Rob Prichard went to his board last summer, the chief executive of Torstar Corp. declared that it was time to consider a transition strategy.
Key executive figures around the Toronto Star, the country's largest newspaper, were about to be ushered out the door. But it was unclear to those in the boardroom whether Mr. Prichard's transition plans were to include him.
Yesterday, discussing the sudden announcement of his resignation, Mr. Prichard said it was all according to plan. But for the ambitious executive - and former golden boy of academe - who has always followed a careful plan, it was not completely scripted...
Mr. Prichard, the supreme strategist and politician, appeared to squander his opportunity. If he could have kept two of the five families on his side, he could have had a perpetual blocking coalition against Mr. Honderich. Instead, Mr. Honderich, the idealist, appeared to display strategic patience by working his way back in favour with the other families.
Observers on Bay Street have long noted tension between him and John Honderich, a former Torstar executive and member of the family ownership group. As part of the executive shuffle, Mr. Honderich takes over as chairman of the board from Frank Iacobucci, a former Supreme Court of Canada Judge. Five other directors are stepping down or not standing for re-election at the annual meeting, including Ron Osborne, Sabi Marwah, Jack Fuller and Spencer Lanthier.
Torstar's complex boardroom was created in the late 1940s, when legendary Star editor Joseph Atkinson died, leaving a Toronto Star guided by his socially enlightened principles. His controlling interest was left to a charity, but the process ran afoul of new rules set by the unfriendly Conservative government of Ontario.
So five Star managers and their families emerged to buy the paper, and thus preserve the Atkinson principles.
When Mr. Prichard arrived, he was intent to ensure the company found a better balance between profits and editorial principles. David Galloway, the Torstar CEO who recruited Mr. Prichard, explained the reasoning: "If you can manage the University of Toronto, you can manage anything." But Mr. Prichard often lined up on the other side of issues from Mr. Honderich, who saw himself as the heart and soul of the Star and resisted the kind of cost-cutting found across the North American media.
Yet Mr. Prichard had his way, and Mr. Honderich in 2004 left the company in what many saw as his version of Napoleon's Elba exile...
It is time once again for the Toronto Star to return to the Atkinson Principles of Social Justice
etc., especially in these economically depressed times. The Toronto Star can be a global model for Newspapers or it can be another Chicago Tribune(bankrupt).
http://www.thestar.com/aboutUs/atkinson
NOTE: THE FOLLOWING TORONTO STAR ARTICLE HAS BEEN DIGITALLY ERASED-CAN NOT BE FOUND AT TORONTO STAR WEBSITE ETC
Toronto To Build More Nuclear Plants After Bilderberg Speech
ROBERT BENZIE / Toronto Star | June 12 2006
http://www.infowars.com/articles/nwo/nuclear_bilderberg.htm
http://www.bilderberg.org/2006.htm
The provincial government will announce tomorrow that Ontario is embracing more nuclear power plants, sources told the Toronto Star.
Premier Dalton McGuinty has privately spoken of his government’s plans to confidants for days, insiders say.
In an off-the-record speech on Saturday night in Ottawa to the secretive Bilderberg group, McGuinty discussed the pros and cons of more nuclear plants.
While he did not divulge the government’s plans to that audience of 160 business and political leaders, the premier privately admitted the public will officially learn of the plans tomorrow when his government announces its long-awaited response to the Ontario Power Authority’s report on the province’s energy supply mix.
Last December, the OPA, an arm’s length agency, recommended in its 1,100-page report that Ontario spend up to $40 billion over the next 20 years to produce 12,400 megawatts of electricity from new or refurbished nuclear plants.
The authority said nuclear power would have to be 50 per cent of the province’s energy mix through 2025.
“The government will soon announce our response to the Ontario Power Authority report,” an aide to the premier said last night. “The premier repeated on Saturday what he has always said publicly, that we cannot take new nuclear off the table as we prepare Ontario’s long-term energy plan.”
Related
Today Kanata … ..Tomorrow the world.
Photographs of Alex’s Bilderberg weekend
Infowars.com Exclusive:
Full List of Bilderberg Attendees
Kanata hotel hosts high-level power group
Secretive, powerful Bilderberg group meets near Ottawa
VIPs’ arrivals marked by a discreet ‘B’
Alex Jones Detained on Orders of Bilderberg Group
Bilderberg-bound filmmaker held at airport
Bilderberg Group: James Wolfensohn
Despite claims from his office that his speech was no different from one he delivered in Niagara Falls a year ago, insiders told the Star he was unequivocal in private conversations about his support for the controversial electricity source.
Ontario is already home to many nuclear facilities. There are six nuclear units at Tiverton’s Bruce plant, plus two more being refurbished; four at Darlington in Bowmanville; six at Pickering, plus two that have been mothballed, and one decommissioned Atomic Energy of Canada Ltd. reactor at Deep River.
To meet the OPA recommendations, Ontario would need about a dozen more reactors, which would take years to build.
Ever since the OPA report was made public Dec. 9, opponents of nuclear power have been attacking McGuinty for leaning toward that option.
The Sierra Club has called the nuclear option “insanity” and Greenpeace called it a leap backward at a time when alternative sources should be sought.
McGuinty’s staff deliberately omitted any mention of his speech Saturday to the Bilderberg session — held at the Brookstreet Hotel in the Ottawa suburb of Kanata — from his public itinerary.
The group, named for the Dutch hotel the organization first met at in 1954, holds its sessions behind closed doors amid tight security.
In the past, Prime Minister Stephen Harper and former prime ministers Paul Martin and Jean Chrétien have addressed the organization.
Because participants in Bilderberg sessions are sworn to secrecy under threat of ex-communication from the group, politicians tend to lower their guard and speak candidly.
Insiders say McGuinty gave a “marvellous” Ontario-boosting speech interspersed with revelations about the province’s need to move forward with more nuclear plants.
“He gave a stump speech on how great Ontario is and then (privately later) he said we’re going to announce this week we’re building new nukes,” a source said.
Among those reportedly attending the Ottawa session were Ahmad Chalabi, former deputy prime minister of Iraq and a key proponent of the U.S.-led invasion of that country; Globe and Mail publisher Phillip Crawley; Coca-Cola chairman George A. David; Power Corp. CEO Paul Desmarais; Richard Holbrooke and Vernon Jordan, long-time top advisers to former U.S. president Bill Clinton; Henry Kissinger, former U.S. secretary of state; former New Brunswick premier Frank McKenna; Queen Beatrix of The Netherlands; New York Governor George Pataki; Iraq war architect Richard Perle; Heather Reisman, chair and CEO of Indigo Books and Music; Torstar president and CEO J. Robert S. Prichard and tycoon David Rockefeller, among many others.
It was the kind of power-broker audience the premier, who sat with Pataki, Reisman and Queen Beatrix, would want to reach when delivering a message about investing in Ontario — and massive investment will be required to pay for $40 billion in nuclear plants.
His address came one day after Energy Minister Dwight Duncan confirmed that the Liberal government was being forced to break its 2003 election promise to close all of Ontario’s coal-fired generating plants by 2007. That promise was later amended to 2009.
On Friday, Duncan said that even the 2009 date could not be achieved.
As for the nuclear option, Jack Gibbons, executive director of the Ontario Clean Air Alliance, denounced the OPA’s call for more nuclear power as “1950s-style solution to meet our electricity needs in the 21st century.”
NDP Leader Howard Hampton, author of a book on Ontario’s electricity history, has railed against nuclear power because of environmental concerns and cost overruns…
Corporate Newspapers need to back off and stand down if they are not prepared
to accept the New Energy Economy-Like the Newspapers of the American South during the American Civil War-they kept pushing the old Energy economy-the morally bankrupt Slave economy.
The Old Energy Ways of Big Oil, King Coal and Gas, and Nuclear are morally and Economically Bankrupt today in light of Global Warming and World Economy.
Note: Revolving Door Links between top brass (former and present) at Toronto Star, and Toronto’s Biotechnology hub MaRS(medical and related sciences) and the University of Toronto,Canada’s richest University.
TORONTO, Feb. 4 .2009/CNW/ - Organization of CANDU Industries
(OCI) president Dr. Neil Alexander is urging decision-makers
to adopt a long-term perspective on Canada’s global nuclear
opportunities.
“The nuclear industry is experiencing a growth in demand
that will generate trillions of dollars of investment in new nuclear
plants around the world,” said Dr. Alexander.
“It’s a once-in-a-generation opportunity for Canada to forge its
place in the burgeoning global nuclear industry.”
http://www.newswire.ca/en/releases/archive/February2009/04/c5576.html
Trillions of dollars in nuclear power and weapons will make the credit crisis look
like patty cakes. Like American Revolutionary Paul Revere, we must all be on the
midnight run to stem this flow, an Energy, Environmental, Economic Holocaust.
http://www.earlyamerica.com/paul_revere.htm
World coal fired power plant capacity to increase by 60%
http://steelguru.com/news/index/2008/07/12/NTQ1NzI%3D/World_coal_fired_power_plant_capacity_to_increase_by_60%252525.html
July 14, 2008 - According to latest forecasts in “Coal Fired Boilers: World Analysis and Forecast” published by the McIlvaine Company, World coal capacity is expected to reach approximately 2,500 GW by the end of 2020, an increase of nearly 60% from 2008.
Feb coal imports reach 22-month high
By Si Tingting (chinadaily.com.cn)
Updated: 2009-03-17 11:18
http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/bizchina/2009-03/17/content_7586672.htm
Coal imports surged to the highest level in at least 22 months in February to 4.88 million tons, according to data released by the General Administration of Customs on Monday. That represents a 63 percent increase compared to January, and a 73 percent increase compared to February 2008.
Analysts say that China, the world's biggest coal producer and consumer, increased imports of the fuel as power producers boosted overseas purchases on falling international coal prices and lower shipping costs.
Eco Soundings: US coal lobby 'doesn't know' if coal causes global warming
http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/blog/2009/mar/17/acce-cleancoalusa-coal-burning-doesnt-know-global-warming
Fossil fool of the week: Joe Lucas, vice-president of the American Coalition for Clean Coal electricity, who says "clean coal" is a way to keep energy costs down and still avoid pollution. On a CNN interview last week, Joe regretted that he was not a scientist and so he could not say whether or not the burning of coal even contributed to global warming. Don't scream – see it yourself above. (click link for video)
See also:
http://floodiceorfire.wordpress.com/abolition-of-king-coal-fossil-fuels-nuclear-power-and-weaponsupdate-friday-feb-13-2009/
http://floodiceorfire.wordpress.com/stop-neo-con-privatiztion-of-toronto-hydro-and-ontario-power-gene
http://floodiceorfire.wordpress.com/original-psea-document-abolition-of-king-coal-everywhere/
http://floodiceorfire.wordpress.com/natural-gas-plants-not-an-answer-to-phasing-out-of-coal-fired-plants/
http://floodiceorfire.wordpress.com/gas-water-2/
http://floodiceorfire.wordpress.com/stop-privatized-natural-gas-plants-plundering-pristine-ontario-lands-water-and-air/
http://floodiceorfire.wordpress.com/stopping-sithe-global-gascoal-and-making-way-for-renewable-energy/
http://floodiceorfire.wordpress.com/stop-russia-gazprom-rabaska-lng-facility-in-canada/
http://floodiceorfire.wordpress.com/vigilinfo-picket-against-nuclear-power-and-call-for-resignations-of-public-energy-ceos-in-ontario/
http://floodiceorfire.wordpress.com/
http://www.thestar.com/comment/article/591935
Paradigm Shift Environmental Alliance(a homeless network of transborder activists, students, academics, Aboriginal etc.)
Abolition King Coal, Fossil Fuels, Nuclear Power and Weapons
The Great Struggle Continues….
Calling on all Peoples, Communities, Groups, Individuals etc., to Save Trees and our Beloved Earth- to Boycott all newspapers that lobby for Fossil Fuels(eg. King Coal-Natural gas Plants) or Nuclear power. This we must do – this is the “Hour of Earth”
Does the Seattle P-I Going 100% Web Signal the End of Newspapers?
BY Kit EatonTue Mar 17, 2009 at 11:30 AM
http://www.fastcompany.com/blog/kit-eaton/technomix/does-seattle-p-i-going-100-online-signal-end-newspapers As of today the Seattle Post-Intelligencer is a 100% online publication, with the final print run of its paper edition already complete. Does this move sound a death knell for physical newspapers?
has no future
Save the Trees Boycott Newspapers(eg Toronto Star) that lobby for Fossil Fuels or Nuclear Power
March 17, 2009
Save the Trees Boycott Newspapers(eg Toronto Star) that lobby for Fossil Fuels or Nuclear Power
(This document is given to global politicians, energy stakeholders, banks and global grassroots networks etc)
Calling on all Peoples, Communities, Groups, Individuals etc., to Save Trees and our Beloved Earth- to Boycott all newspapers that lobby for Fossil Fuels(eg. King Coal-Natural gas Plants) or Nuclear power. This we must do – this is the “Hour of Earth”
Does the Seattle P-I Going 100% Web Signal the End of Newspapers?
BY Kit EatonTue Mar 17, 2009 at 11:30 AM
http://www.fastcompany.com/blog/kit-eaton/technomix/does-seattle-p-i-going-100-online-signal-end-newspapers As of today the Seattle Post-Intelligencer is a 100% online publication, with the final print run of its paper edition already complete. Does this move sound a death knell for physical newspapers?
EDITORIAL(TORONTO STAR)
TheStar.com | Opinion | ‘Green energy’ includes nuclear
‘Green energy’ includes nuclear
Feb 24, 2009 04:30 AM
http://www.thestar.com/comment/article/591935 EDITORIAL (Toronto Star calls for Nuclear Power)
TheStar.com | Opinion | Liberals credible on energy policy
Liberals credible on energy policy
http://www.thestar.com/article/264182 EDITORIAL (Toronto Star calls for Nuclear Power)
TheStar.com | Opinion | Liberals credible on energy policy
Liberals credible on energy policy
http://www.thestar.com/article/264182 Ontario residents want a reliable supply of electricity that keeps the lights on and their homes and businesses running smoothly. But as concerns grow over smog and global warming, they also want their power to be clean, as well as reasonably priced.
In assessing the choices the Liberals, Conservatives and New Democratic Party have put forward, voters should reject both wishful thinking that would leave Ontario short of future energy needs, and short-sighted plans that would jeopardize long-term environmental goals…
On that basis, NDP Leader Howard Hampton’s plan to close all coal-fired generating stations by 2014 yet build no new nuclear plants just is not plausible. He says he can make up power lost by closing the coal-fired plants with renewable energy, such as wind, solar and water, and “aggressive conservation.”..
For Liberal Leader Dalton McGuinty, energy policy is a thorny subject. In the 2003 election, he pledged to shut all coal-fired plants by this year, a pledge he eventually had to move back to 2014. But to his credit, he has cleaned up the mess left by the previous Conservative government, whose attempts to privatize parts of the electricity sector proved disastrous,..
In the long term, it calls for investments of up to $27 billion on new and refurbished nuclear stations to ensure Ontario has adequate generating capacity.
By supporting this approach, which represents the best mix for balancing cost, energy security and environmental concerns, the Liberals have adopted a more credible strategy for providing cleaner and reliable power for this province in the years ahead.
Note: On Oct, 9 2007 we wrote the following:
http://portland.indymedia.org/en/2007/10/366521.shtml Toronto Star goes Nuclear:
a betrayal of the founding principles of the Toronto Star
2 days before Ontario election the venerable “social justice” Toronto Star endorses a pro-nuclear stance. How can this be in line with Atkinson’s founding principles that guides Toronto Star? The Toronto Star pushes anti-poverty campaign series yet encourages tens of billions to be spent on privatized nuclear power. How many social programs to be cut or downscaled to pay for this - including on the backs of children?
EDITORIAL ” Liberals credible on energy policy”
http://www.thestar.com/article/264182 Today the situation is fiscally, economic, and socially graver. Tens of Billions to pay for outdated and dangerous nuclear technology. Where is the money coming from-the Banks-the federal gov’t-Wal-mart-maybe Santa Clause? And what will be left over for the new energy economy-environment-anti-poverty programs? Where is the immense pressure coming from-it takes 10-15 years to build these white toxic elephants-
Shakeup at Torstar
GRANT ROBERTSON AND GORDON PITTS
From Friday's Globe and Mail Friday, February 27
http://ago.mobile.globeandmail.com/generated/archive/RTGAM/html/20090227/wrtorstar27.html When Rob Prichard went to his board last summer, the chief executive of Torstar Corp. declared that it was time to consider a transition strategy.
Key executive figures around the Toronto Star, the country's largest newspaper, were about to be ushered out the door. But it was unclear to those in the boardroom whether Mr. Prichard's transition plans were to include him.
Yesterday, discussing the sudden announcement of his resignation, Mr. Prichard said it was all according to plan. But for the ambitious executive - and former golden boy of academe - who has always followed a careful plan, it was not completely scripted...
Mr. Prichard, the supreme strategist and politician, appeared to squander his opportunity. If he could have kept two of the five families on his side, he could have had a perpetual blocking coalition against Mr. Honderich. Instead, Mr. Honderich, the idealist, appeared to display strategic patience by working his way back in favour with the other families.
Observers on Bay Street have long noted tension between him and John Honderich, a former Torstar executive and member of the family ownership group. As part of the executive shuffle, Mr. Honderich takes over as chairman of the board from Frank Iacobucci, a former Supreme Court of Canada Judge. Five other directors are stepping down or not standing for re-election at the annual meeting, including Ron Osborne, Sabi Marwah, Jack Fuller and Spencer Lanthier.
Torstar's complex boardroom was created in the late 1940s, when legendary Star editor Joseph Atkinson died, leaving a Toronto Star guided by his socially enlightened principles. His controlling interest was left to a charity, but the process ran afoul of new rules set by the unfriendly Conservative government of Ontario.
So five Star managers and their families emerged to buy the paper, and thus preserve the Atkinson principles.
When Mr. Prichard arrived, he was intent to ensure the company found a better balance between profits and editorial principles. David Galloway, the Torstar CEO who recruited Mr. Prichard, explained the reasoning: "If you can manage the University of Toronto, you can manage anything." But Mr. Prichard often lined up on the other side of issues from Mr. Honderich, who saw himself as the heart and soul of the Star and resisted the kind of cost-cutting found across the North American media.
Yet Mr. Prichard had his way, and Mr. Honderich in 2004 left the company in what many saw as his version of Napoleon's Elba exile...
It is time once again for the Toronto Star to return to the Atkinson Principles of Social Justice
etc., especially in these economically depressed times. The Toronto Star can be a global model for Newspapers or it can be another Chicago Tribune(bankrupt).
http://www.thestar.com/aboutUs/atkinson NOTE: THE FOLLOWING TORONTO STAR ARTICLE HAS BEEN DIGITALLY ERASED-CAN NOT BE FOUND AT TORONTO STAR WEBSITE ETC
Toronto To Build More Nuclear Plants After Bilderberg Speech
ROBERT BENZIE / Toronto Star | June 12 2006
http://www.infowars.com/articles/nwo/nuclear_bilderberg.htm http://www.bilderberg.org/2006.htm The provincial government will announce tomorrow that Ontario is embracing more nuclear power plants, sources told the Toronto Star.
Premier Dalton McGuinty has privately spoken of his government’s plans to confidants for days, insiders say.
In an off-the-record speech on Saturday night in Ottawa to the secretive Bilderberg group, McGuinty discussed the pros and cons of more nuclear plants.
While he did not divulge the government’s plans to that audience of 160 business and political leaders, the premier privately admitted the public will officially learn of the plans tomorrow when his government announces its long-awaited response to the Ontario Power Authority’s report on the province’s energy supply mix.
Last December, the OPA, an arm’s length agency, recommended in its 1,100-page report that Ontario spend up to $40 billion over the next 20 years to produce 12,400 megawatts of electricity from new or refurbished nuclear plants.
The authority said nuclear power would have to be 50 per cent of the province’s energy mix through 2025.
“The government will soon announce our response to the Ontario Power Authority report,” an aide to the premier said last night. “The premier repeated on Saturday what he has always said publicly, that we cannot take new nuclear off the table as we prepare Ontario’s long-term energy plan.”
Related
Today Kanata … ..Tomorrow the world.
Photographs of Alex’s Bilderberg weekend
Infowars.com Exclusive:
Full List of Bilderberg Attendees
Kanata hotel hosts high-level power group
Secretive, powerful Bilderberg group meets near Ottawa
VIPs’ arrivals marked by a discreet ‘B’
Alex Jones Detained on Orders of Bilderberg Group
Bilderberg-bound filmmaker held at airport
Bilderberg Group: James Wolfensohn
Despite claims from his office that his speech was no different from one he delivered in Niagara Falls a year ago, insiders told the Star he was unequivocal in private conversations about his support for the controversial electricity source.
Ontario is already home to many nuclear facilities. There are six nuclear units at Tiverton’s Bruce plant, plus two more being refurbished; four at Darlington in Bowmanville; six at Pickering, plus two that have been mothballed, and one decommissioned Atomic Energy of Canada Ltd. reactor at Deep River.
To meet the OPA recommendations, Ontario would need about a dozen more reactors, which would take years to build.
Ever since the OPA report was made public Dec. 9, opponents of nuclear power have been attacking McGuinty for leaning toward that option.
The Sierra Club has called the nuclear option “insanity” and Greenpeace called it a leap backward at a time when alternative sources should be sought.
McGuinty’s staff deliberately omitted any mention of his speech Saturday to the Bilderberg session — held at the Brookstreet Hotel in the Ottawa suburb of Kanata — from his public itinerary.
The group, named for the Dutch hotel the organization first met at in 1954, holds its sessions behind closed doors amid tight security.
In the past, Prime Minister Stephen Harper and former prime ministers Paul Martin and Jean Chrétien have addressed the organization.
Because participants in Bilderberg sessions are sworn to secrecy under threat of ex-communication from the group, politicians tend to lower their guard and speak candidly.
Insiders say McGuinty gave a “marvellous” Ontario-boosting speech interspersed with revelations about the province’s need to move forward with more nuclear plants.
“He gave a stump speech on how great Ontario is and then (privately later) he said we’re going to announce this week we’re building new nukes,” a source said.
Among those reportedly attending the Ottawa session were Ahmad Chalabi, former deputy prime minister of Iraq and a key proponent of the U.S.-led invasion of that country; Globe and Mail publisher Phillip Crawley; Coca-Cola chairman George A. David; Power Corp. CEO Paul Desmarais; Richard Holbrooke and Vernon Jordan, long-time top advisers to former U.S. president Bill Clinton; Henry Kissinger, former U.S. secretary of state; former New Brunswick premier Frank McKenna; Queen Beatrix of The Netherlands; New York Governor George Pataki; Iraq war architect Richard Perle; Heather Reisman, chair and CEO of Indigo Books and Music; Torstar president and CEO J. Robert S. Prichard and tycoon David Rockefeller, among many others.
It was the kind of power-broker audience the premier, who sat with Pataki, Reisman and Queen Beatrix, would want to reach when delivering a message about investing in Ontario — and massive investment will be required to pay for $40 billion in nuclear plants.
His address came one day after Energy Minister Dwight Duncan confirmed that the Liberal government was being forced to break its 2003 election promise to close all of Ontario’s coal-fired generating plants by 2007. That promise was later amended to 2009.
On Friday, Duncan said that even the 2009 date could not be achieved.
As for the nuclear option, Jack Gibbons, executive director of the Ontario Clean Air Alliance, denounced the OPA’s call for more nuclear power as “1950s-style solution to meet our electricity needs in the 21st century.”
NDP Leader Howard Hampton, author of a book on Ontario’s electricity history, has railed against nuclear power because of environmental concerns and cost overruns…
Corporate Newspapers need to back off and stand down if they are not prepared
to accept the New Energy Economy-Like the Newspapers of the American South during the American Civil War-they kept pushing the old Energy economy-the morally bankrupt Slave economy.
The Old Energy Ways of Big Oil, King Coal and Gas, and Nuclear are morally and Economically Bankrupt today in light of Global Warming and World Economy.
Note: Revolving Door Links between top brass (former and present) at Toronto Star, and Toronto’s Biotechnology hub MaRS(medical and related sciences) and the University of Toronto,Canada’s richest University.
TORONTO, Feb. 4 .2009/CNW/ - Organization of CANDU Industries
(OCI) president Dr. Neil Alexander is urging decision-makers
to adopt a long-term perspective on Canada’s global nuclear
opportunities.
“The nuclear industry is experiencing a growth in demand
that will generate trillions of dollars of investment in new nuclear
plants around the world,” said Dr. Alexander.
“It’s a once-in-a-generation opportunity for Canada to forge its
place in the burgeoning global nuclear industry.”
http://www.newswire.ca/en/releases/archive/February2009/04/c5576.html Trillions of dollars in nuclear power and weapons will make the credit crisis look
like patty cakes. Like American Revolutionary Paul Revere, we must all be on the
midnight run to stem this flow, an Energy, Environmental, Economic Holocaust.
http://www.earlyamerica.com/paul_revere.htm World coal fired power plant capacity to increase by 60%
http://steelguru.com/news/index/2008/07/12/NTQ1NzI%3D/World_coal_fired_power_plant_capacity_to_increase_by_60%252525.html July 14, 2008 - According to latest forecasts in “Coal Fired Boilers: World Analysis and Forecast” published by the McIlvaine Company, World coal capacity is expected to reach approximately 2,500 GW by the end of 2020, an increase of nearly 60% from 2008.
Feb coal imports reach 22-month high
By Si Tingting (chinadaily.com.cn)
Updated: 2009-03-17 11:18
http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/bizchina/2009-03/17/content_7586672.htm Coal imports surged to the highest level in at least 22 months in February to 4.88 million tons, according to data released by the General Administration of Customs on Monday. That represents a 63 percent increase compared to January, and a 73 percent increase compared to February 2008.
Analysts say that China, the world's biggest coal producer and consumer, increased imports of the fuel as power producers boosted overseas purchases on falling international coal prices and lower shipping costs.
Eco Soundings: US coal lobby 'doesn't know' if coal causes global warming
http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/blog/2009/mar/17/acce-cleancoalusa-coal-burning-doesnt-know-global-warming Fossil fool of the week: Joe Lucas, vice-president of the American Coalition for Clean Coal electricity, who says "clean coal" is a way to keep energy costs down and still avoid pollution. On a CNN interview last week, Joe regretted that he was not a scientist and so he could not say whether or not the burning of coal even contributed to global warming. Don't scream – see it yourself above. (click link for video)
See also:
http://floodiceorfire.wordpress.com/abolition-of-king-coal-fossil-fuels-nuclear-power-and-weaponsupdate-friday-feb-13-2009/ http://floodiceorfire.wordpress.com/stop-neo-con-privatiztion-of-toronto-hydro-and-ontario-power-gene http://floodiceorfire.wordpress.com/original-psea-document-abolition-of-king-coal-everywhere/ http://floodiceorfire.wordpress.com/natural-gas-plants-not-an-answer-to-phasing-out-of-coal-fired-plants/ http://floodiceorfire.wordpress.com/gas-water-2/ http://floodiceorfire.wordpress.com/stop-privatized-natural-gas-plants-plundering-pristine-ontario-lands-water-and-air/ http://floodiceorfire.wordpress.com/stopping-sithe-global-gascoal-and-making-way-for-renewable-energy/ http://floodiceorfire.wordpress.com/stop-russia-gazprom-rabaska-lng-facility-in-canada/ http://floodiceorfire.wordpress.com/vigilinfo-picket-against-nuclear-power-and-call-for-resignations-of-public-energy-ceos-in-ontario/ http://floodiceorfire.wordpress.com/ http://www.thestar.com/comment/article/591935 Paradigm Shift Environmental Alliance(a homeless network of transborder activists, students, academics, Aboriginal etc.)
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