Pickering has never operated better.
This summer workers set a site performance record running all 6 reactors continuously for 100 days.
Over its lifetime it has saved 1 billion tons of CO2! We can give it another 30 years of outstanding operation w a
refurbishment. Lets go!
Sad that it takes imminent threats of blackouts to smack some sense into our political class.
What do you think might happen if we eliminate 15% of Ontario’s baseload with the planned closure of Pickering?
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We have been fighting around the world for six years to make it so that we never lose another nuclear plant to political sabotage.
In the future people will look back and be horrified that weak leadership allowed us to lose so many of our cheapest and most secure power plants.
Losing Pickering means...
1.) 7600 direct and indirect full time jobs gone
2.) Replacement with imported natural gas which has 4x in price in 2 years
3.) Sky rocketing emissions & air pollution
Pickering must be refurbished or replaced 1:1 with nuclear.
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“Dr. Keefer said the work at Darlington is evidence that @fordnation should refurbish the Pickering Nuclear Station as well.”
“If we can refurbish to ‘as new’ we are in a great position to build new CANDU! But first let’s get Pickering refurbished too.”
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@Dan_Mepham Also, follow @NuclearSave, use the #SavePickering hashtag, follow @CanadiansEnergy and you can check the Save Pickering website. There is a growing coalition of voices pushing to have the @fordnation government revisit the refurbishment of Pickering B. https://t.co/tcC9AIO8wR
Pickering also produces the lifesaving medical isotope Cobalt 60.
We can’t afford to let a single CANDU w a regulator approved refurbishment plan die.
To do so in an energy crisis, an electrification crisis, a climate crisis & a healthcare crisis is madness.
Save Pickering!
Imagine openly admitting, in the year 2022, that you want to collaborate with Germans on energy.
Imagine indicting your own nation by saying you're ALIGNED on *climate* and *energy security* - with GERMANY.
When all is said & done-by 2040 we will have spent close to 60 billion on the Green Energy Act subsidizing low value wind & solar in Ontario. These projects will be at end of life in 2040. The Pickering refurb would cost 1/6th of that & lock in our ultra low CO2 grid until 2060.
Pickcoin, a new cryptocurrency anyone can buy to invest in the future. Its funds will go to refurbish Pickering. In turn, it mines more coin by splitting atoms to replenish the bankroll. Splitcoin.
Seriously though, things have changed!
#SavePickering#CANDU 🇨🇦 #NuclearEnergy
Ontario needs a serious discussion on the future of the Pickering Nuclear Generating Station.
It is scheduled to cease operations in 2024 resulting in the loss of much needed emissions-free electricity and thousands of great jobs.
If Pickering B can be refurbished-let's do it!
@fordnation by extending operations at Pickering may have done more than any contemporary politician in terms if emissions reductions. 8 megatons per year of CO2 is averted by continued operations at Pickering thats why we’ve got to refurbish it!
I had the opportunity to stop by @opg with @PBethlenfalvy for a fantastic tour of their training facility in #Pickering.
The energy to fuel our manufacturing facilities including automotive will be produced in great facilities just like this! #OnPoli#28DaysToGo
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Special #EarthDay Coverage! A pleasure talking w @scotthurstcp24 on #CP24 about the vital role for #nuclear in protecting our planet & its importance in meeting our climate & electrification goals. Nuclear Energy is Green Energy! #NetZeroNeedsNuclear. https://t.co/IQqcpL46MI