Saskboy from Saskatchewan

No, that's good, because it's a source that wouldn't make the number artificially higher. So we can trust the low number, which is still absurdly high.

The science of racism with Professor Keon West

Exactly. Russia targeted Chernobyl of all places for a missile attack, critically damaging the very expensive and nearly irreplaceable Sarcophagus covering the melted-down reactor.

Funny, I was JUST talking about this phenomenon with someone, after seeing a Zack clip on racism.
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Problem, this ON resource says there are no examples for decades.
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Back in 2009, around the 2009 UDP that Saskatchewanians rejected, ON had new nuke plant(s) planned, estimated cost was over $23 billion globalnews.ca/news/64198/n... #ONpoli

Yes, get us some CANDU examples from the last 20 years in Ontario, NB, or elsewhere. GW size, cost, and time to deliver power in production from start of the project please.

Renewables can deliver cost effective baseload power using battery storage for many years already. 1MW outside of #YQR even.

Those figures from National Observer www.nationalobserver.com/newsletters/...

Private fossil fuel companies have project expansions nearly the cost to make the whole province of Saskatchewan ~90% carbon-free electricity.
This is why fossil fuel and new nuclear plants are #StrandedAssets. There is simply no fair way they can compete with #wind & #solar with battery storage.

Put that $11 billion into context:
Canadian Natural Resources, one of the largest & most influential oil &gas companies in CAN, has proposed Jackpine Mine. Last week, in the midst of reporting its annual results for 2025 — it announced that it was deferring $150 m on its $8.25 billion expansion.

It doesn't take an economic genius to realize that free energy costs MUCH less than mined & refined uranium fuel heating a fresh water supply.

And that's just the building phase of each where nuclear loses to renewables. Nuclear is built last even when started at the same time, and costs much, much more.
Once each is built, renewable energy costs nothing in fuel costs. Nuclear continues to need fuel added, and [dangerous] waste stored.

Ontario is a better comparison to the shitestorm SaskPower will face in regulations and costs than the UK, and it's obvious to anyone with a calculator (that should be anyone), that nuclear can't compete in the free market.

Let's assume conservatively that Blade's example is wrong by half, in both directions. Renewables still kick nuclear power's butt in all ways when coupled with storage that is already commercially available.

Academy would be a great walkable neighbourhood except that the speed and limited crossings make it hostile to use as a pedestrian. With reduced speeds and some added pedestrian corridors it could be a pleasant and safe place to walk to the many businesses along the strip.

Completely. Most people don't realize how much renewables can eat nuclear's breakfast and lunch, and still have room for supper.

What's 1/8th of 40GW of wind? 5GW, exactly what Saskatchewan needs right now, except we already have a lot of hydro from Manitoba, plus coal and #CCS that needs shutting down here. New methane plants become obsolete once we install enough battery storage systems around the grid too.
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Using figures from the UK for nuclear, the cost of adding 3.2GW is roughly $91.5Bil CAD in Saskatchewan.

Sask's annual budget is only $21.1Bil.

However, 1/8th of that nuclear plant would cost $11.4Bil, and produce much more electricity, faster, from wind and solar. Plus add a battery upgrade.

"The Hinkley C UK nuclear reactor will produce 3.2GW, it will cost £50bn.

For that the UK could have built 40GW of Wind Turbines in 1/5th of the time.

Which would even on the least windy days of the year produce TWICE as much electricity.

Nuclear is an unnecessary RIPOFF."

The Sask Government wants SaskPower to build nuclear reactors for 2035.
Currently Saskatchewan has about 5GW of electricity generation.
Take a look at what Bladeofthesun says about British nuclear power ambitions, in comparison to Sask's power needs.

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Yes, Saskatchewan is a major source of the fuel, and no kids mining it here.

Solar and wind are by far the better investment.

A lot comes from Saskatchewan too.

The Hinkley C UK nuclear reactor will produce 3.2GW, it will cost £50bn.

For that the UK could have built 40GW of Wind Turbines in 1/5th of the time.

Which would even on the least windy days of the year produce TWICE as much electricity.

Nuclear is an unnecessary RIPOFF.

AI cameras are everywhere — and people are paying the price for their mistakes Flock Safety's license plate readers are used by police in thousands of communities. When the cameras make mistakes, the consequences can be severe.

“In a dozen instances, misreads by Flock's automated license plate readers, or a lack of verification by officers, resulted in people who hadn't committed crimes being stopped at gunpoint, sent to jail, or mauled by a police dog, among other outcomes.”

The assumptions underlying that conversation are fascinating: “We are entering in a preventable dystopia that could be prevented by masking, but since no one is masking the preventable dystopia is inevitable, and the best way to escape an inevitable dystopia is death” is quite the twisted logic.

Desalination, water, and war Attacks on civilian systems, including water systems, must be condemned and punished under the laws of war.

Attacks on civilian water systems must be condemned and punished under the laws of war. We must repudiate such attacks and stop targeting water supplies, water systems, and other critical civilian infrastructure. #Water must never be a target or weapon of war.
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In a more just world the UN would be stopping countries from continuing and expanding genocides.

Nothing to see here folks, just the zionist genocidaires up to their old genociding...

Alt Text: Mehdi Hassan explaining that Trump thinks asylum seekers came from mental asylums.
Idiocracy type stuff.

Human Rights Watch says that Israel has been illegally using white phosphorus in Lebanon The Israeli military illegally used white phosphorus munitions over homes in the southern Lebanese town Yohmor on ​March 3, posing a threat to civilians, Human Rights Watch said in a ‌report on Monday.

Human Rights Watch says that Israel has been illegally using white phosphorus in Lebanon reut.rs/4dbIDsa

The Tuesday Everything Stopped Six years later, neoliberalism prefers we forget how it responded to the pandemic made today's world.

"Six years after COVID-19 upended the world, the pandemic has begun to feel like the secret inside a dysfunctional family—something everyone remembers but no one is supposed to talk about."
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