[can-aid-ian]

Anyone remember the Sprung Greenhouse fiasco? In 1987, Newfoundland Premier Brian Peckford attempted to boost local employment by subsidizing the building of a massive hydroponic greenhouse operation that its inventor, Philip Sprung, said would turn the province into a world leader in green produce. His plan had failed in Alberta, but in Peckford he found a gullible partner willing to abandon common sense and start signing over other people’s money...

People in Ontario ridiculed the Sprung fiasco at the time. But I guess we didn’t really learn anything, for now we are madly building our own versions of the Sprung greenhouses. This time they are called wind turbines.

http://www.enviralment.ca/2011/01/10/mc ... rden-path/

[Bruce_the_vii]

One thing is Ontario already had a world class green energy commitment, the CANDU nuclear reactor. This has been very expensive over 50 years but is still an interesting technology for the future. Not only did McGunity go green but he ignored what had been done in the province for decades. McGuinty is impervious to this sort of logic, is all about McGuinty.

[BeaverFever]

The jury is still out on how "green" it is. It does not emit greenhouse gasses, but there are unanswered questions about radioactive contamination. And, as you mentioned, extremely expensive.

[Bruce_the_vii]

There's questions about the cost of disposing of the radioactive waste. Half the jury is hysterical about the word "radioactive" and won't address the question. When the energy crisis hits big time it'll sober them up. I calculate that in a life time of being nuclear dependent a person would leave behind a cremation size urn of nuclear fuel waste which will decay in 400 years.