{"id":61518,"date":"2022-01-17T09:05:04","date_gmt":"2022-01-17T14:05:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=61518"},"modified":"2022-01-17T09:05:04","modified_gmt":"2022-01-17T14:05:04","slug":"canadas-offshore-wind-resources-are-huge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=61518","title":{"rendered":"Canada\u2019s offshore wind resources are huge"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Canada\u2019s offshore wind resources are huge<\/span><\/a><\/h3>\n
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Nuclear energy is not the solution to achieving Canada\u2019s emission reduction targets. Offshore wind power is safer, less costly, and carries none of the risks of nuclear technology.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

Canada\u2019s offshore wind could deliver more energy than nuclear power. The aging CANDU nuclear reactors are being refurbished at substantial cost in an effort to keep them up and running for a few more years. But this is only a stopgap measure.<\/p>\n

The six reactors at Pickering will be shut down before 2024; the reactors at Bruce, Darlington and Lepreau will continue to generate power for perhaps a decade or so; but the era of power generation from the CANDU reactors in Canada is\u00a0drawing to a close<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Canada has committed to reducing its emissions of greenhouse gases (GHG) by 40 to 45% below 2005 levels by 2030, and to achieving net zero emissions by 2050. The federal government has\u00a0made it clear<\/a>\u00a0that it considers nuclear power essential for meeting these goals. In 2020, minister Seamus O\u2019Regan, at that time the minister of natural resources in the federal government, stated in a keynote address to the Canadian Nuclear Association, \u201cOur government understands the importance of nuclear energy in meeting our climate change goals\u2026We are placing nuclear energy\u00a0front and centre<\/a>.\u201d<\/p>\n

But the nuclear technology the federal government is pinning its hopes on is not the CANDU design. The concept now being strongly promoted by the government is small modular reactors (SMRs). An action plan has been launched; the obligatory\u00a0roadmap<\/a>\u00a0has been\u00a0drafted and published.<\/p>\n

At the present time, this action plan is more wishful thinking than a realistic scenario. No prototype SMR has been constructed; the final design has not even been selected from the\u00a0ten technical proposals<\/a>\u00a0currently under consideration. The government\u2019s claim that SMRs will help Canada meet its 2030 emission reduction targets is simply\u00a0not credible<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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Canada\u2019s offshore wind resources are huge Nuclear energy is not the solution to achieving Canada\u2019s emission reduction targets. Offshore wind power is safer, less costly, and carries none of the risks of nuclear technology. Canada\u2019s offshore wind could deliver more energy than nuclear power. The aging CANDU nuclear reactors are being refurbished at substantial cost […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,4],"tags":[103,20950,20949,579,2654],"class_list":["post-61518","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-energy-2","category-environment","tag-canada","tag-climate-zone","tag-martin-bush","tag-nuclear-power","tag-wind-power"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61518","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=61518"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61518\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":61519,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61518\/revisions\/61519"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=61518"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=61518"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=61518"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}