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There should never have been an ideological drive to overturn coal, oil and gas at all. Instead, there should have been a steady transition towards nuclear energy, with small modular reactors for regional areas and large industrial or urban zones. Modular reactors are the answer. The trouble is, the available money has been wasted. Wind solar failed to deliver the baseload power transition and never will. And we still don't have a replacement that is affordable or reliable. In a policy failure, the UN dived into the global warming agenda entirely for political reasons. It became an ideological stampede to demonize and dismantle coal/oil/gas without proven, affordable, dispatchable alternatives innplace. This was a costly mistake. China's ongoing coal boom—94 GW under construction in 2024 alone, more approvals continuing into 2025—underscores the competitiveness gap. They are pairing it with massive renewables, but coal provides the reliable backbone keeping their industrial costs low. Nuclear is the logical pivot. Small modular reactors are ideal for regional areas or larger clusters near load centers—they are factory-built, and have safer passive designs plus shorter build times. Progress is already ramping up: the US is funding it's first generation SMRs (GE Hitachi BWRX-300, Holtec SMR-300, NuScale). Canada has begun at Darlington and there are partnerships in the UK, Sweden and Poland. Commercial deployments are targeting the late 2020s and early 2030s, but delays are chronic. If the West had pushed nuclear harder instead of renewables we would likely have cheaper, cleaner, more reliable grids today. Momentum towards nuclear is building faster than it has in decades, driven by energy security needs, exploding electricity demand (especially from AI data centres) which renewable energy alone can't support. Global nuclear output is projected to hit a record high in 2025–2026, with 15 new reactors already coming online in 2026 alone, adding 12 GW of power. The IAEA has upped its projections for several years running: and the high-case scenario sees capacity more than doubling to 992 GW by 2050.

Up to date info on Albert la re: foreign coal companies coming to ruin our water & mtns while ripping us off at the same time & leaving taxpayers to pay billions for cleanup BAD NEWS: it sucks GOOD NEWS: a Citizen's Initiative Petition has been applied for & awaits approval