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Bill Gate’s long and tireless efforts to close a deal with China National Nuclear Corp. have finally paid off.  The company has inked a deal to build a first-of-a-kind unit of their sodium cooled fast reactor in China and then manufacture a commercial version of it.Zhimin Qian, President of China National Nuclear Corp. signed the deal with Lee McIntire, CEO of TerraPower at a U.S. Trade and Investment Cooperation Conference held in Seattle on September 22. Source: Terrapower inks deal with China’s CNNC to build fast reactor

Slides showing interesting polling, delivered  to an audience at last week's Ontario Energy Association (OEA) gathering:  Ontario Energy Polling Presentation by Campaign Research (Nick Kouvalis, Principal) Not to focus on the negative, but I was surprised people would be asked if revenues from pricing carbon should be used to subsidize consumption of carbon. 1/3rd of people seemed to think that was exactly what should happen (although separating "gas bills" from "electricity bills" may have added back some sanity):

Not sure how anybody reads something like one J.C.'s latest and doesn't welcome a "skeptic" label. "You have signed the death warrant for science." - Peter Webster Source: Judith Curry's  RICO!

An article from Vermont questioning the unexamined growth of industrial wind comes as nature lovers organize for a rally in Prince Edward County. WE MUST PROTECT OUR RIDGELINES, LAKES AND STREAMS ...at some point the rush into large scale (and subsidized) renewable energy becomes too costly, and too destructive of human and environmental values, to merit continued support. We have reached that point with Big Wind, and it’s time to slow this rush to “renewable energy of all kinds at whatever cost.” I ask our legislators to support a moratorium on new wind projects until they can answer how well our existing projects have lived up to their developers’ promises, how have they impacted the environment, and how they have affected their neighbors and communities. Ontario's legislature is likely immune to intelligent exchanges. The majority Liberal government responded to courts supporting defence of the environment at Ostrander Point by pushing through approvals for massive industrial wi...

The Independent (Petrolia and Lambton)  this week  printed, on its front page ,a report on workers concerns about constructing what is now called the Green Electron Power Plant . Skilled trades have not been on the site in recent weeks; a site "the Ministry of Labour has issued nearly 200 work orders ...for safety violations." [union leader] Cataford says the Ministry of Labour should stay at the Oil Springs Line site to make sure everything runs smoothly. "I think they should be here every day," he says adding, "they (the owners) need direction obviously. If you give them direction and leave, they just head it in the other direction."