Look here Ma, that durn POKO has started up a blog on this here internet thingamabob.
BillyBob, have you done finished milking the cows? You know reading that tripe POKO writes wont get the chores done!
Okay Ma, I'll do my chores now and read the blog after I feed the pigs. That durn POKO, he's always up to something...






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Came to life: on December 31, 2004 23:59 PM      Not a journalist, but highly opinionated

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Nuclear Power Plants

We Need More Plants / We Don't Need More Plants

"Billions of dollars will be spent to build new nuclear plants in Ontario if a review of the province's tight energy supply concludes they're necessary."

Ontario Premier Dalton McGuinty has come under fire having said the above in Niagara Falls September 14th. I like Dalton. He's not afraid to say the things that have to be said where others would dance around it and stick their head in the sand hoping the problem will go away. You might remember his predecessor, a certain Mike Harris - my ex-boss actually. Well, Mike said what he wanted to say too, but it always had a certain edge about it like he was talking down to us. Fortunately, the Ontario voters figured this out and that's why we have Dalton now to point out what needs to be done.
I don't really know what the Conservatives did with respect our power needs. Probably nothing, but Dalton will investigate and take action where needed - he's that type of guy.

Great Power Plant When It's Not Out Of Service:
Located on the shores of Lake Ontario just east of Toronto and nestled in the community of Pickering, is one of the world's largest nuclear generating facilities consisting of the Pickering A and Pickering B Nuclear Generating Stations. Each station has four CANDU (CANadian Deuterium Uranium) reactor units and together they have a total output of 4,120 megawatts (MW), enough to serve a city of two million people.

The Pickering Stations A and B produce electricity with heat created by nuclear fission using natural uranium fuel. The heat produced by this reaction is transferred, via a separate heavy water heat transport system to boilers where ordinary water is boiled and the resulting steam is used to drive a turbine generator that produces electricity. This electricity is fed into transmission lines that carry the power from the site to residential, commercial and industrial users. The CANDU technology, developed in Canada, enables Pickering to produce its enormous electrical output by nuclear fission using natural uranium fuel for a whole year with no more fuel than would fill a two car garage.

We'll have to wait until the review is completed in December to see what happens. Meanwhile, expect a lot of headlines in the press from environmentalists and conservatives who are bracing for a fight. Maybe, if we're lucky, some scientist will come up with a way to make burning coal less of an evil that it supposedly is - there's plenty of ex-coalminers out of work that would love to get back down into the mines.

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