Year End with Premier Scott Moe, Part 3: Investment reluctance, LNG and Germany, nuclear

Remember the “no business case for LNG” that Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said in front of a German chancellor desperate for LNG? Premier Scott Moe talks about that, as well as making a decision on whether to go ahead with nuclear sooner than later. Right now, Saskatchewan is not planning on deciding to go nuclear until 2029.

17 Replies to “Year End with Premier Scott Moe, Part 3: Investment reluctance, LNG and Germany, nuclear”

  1. Saskatchewan should be the nuclear capital of the world.

    Energy, medical, research, education, innovation…even weapons building.

  2. Nuclear is the granddaddy of green energy.. While it works to produce energy its not economically viable to adopt on a wide scale.. It never gets out of the red before ever evolving advancements and safety regulations require expensive retrofitting..

    From a economic standpoint its a boondoggle.. Funded like a military we actually care about.. The government position around it forged in cold war propaganda.. A source of national pride no less..

    Hold your horses.. Wide adoption of nuclear power has been held back because of waste?.. Or is it because this not scalable for all the different economic regions in Canada.. Its a national pride boutique industry that’s been custom fit into areas that can afford to print money to keep it running..

    Im not sold that it can expand into a nation wide solution with a carbon zero gun to its head..

    1. Google SMR’s and other technologies to burn nuclear “waste”..

      It is laziness and waste, both intellectual and otherwise..
      “We choose to do these things, not because it is easy, but because it is hard..” Where has that initiative gone, these days?

    2. Mostly wrong, John. Ontario is entirely dependent on nuclear power for electricity, as are a number of other regions around the world. Aside from Ontario, it’s essential for three provinces: New Brunswick, PEI and Nova Scotia. France, Belgium, could not survive without nuclear power.

      1. Quebec, Norway, France, Sweden, Belgium, are laughing at your nonsense. The original big hydro project in North America, the Grand Coulee Dam is a scam? Las Vegas exists only because it was built. Ontario was powered 100% by hydraulic before WW2. Brazil gets nearly all of its electricity from hydraulic.

    3. The major problem with nuclear is that the greenies adopted it as a cash cow. Millions in donations were made through demonizing campaigns raising fear and (gasp) misinformation. Now when it makes sense they can’t backtrack without people realizing how we were scammed.
      When you want to handicap something regulate it out of existence. Governments reacted to the bad press by imposing multiple layers of largely useless ‘safety measures’ and regulations, a typical Canadian reaction that is guaranteed to make bad things go away. A significant component of the cost is the multiple environmental reports and studies required by our well staffed bureaucracy.
      The Candu system was one of the safest as any reaction could be halted by draining the coolant/moderator. Disposal of waste – encase in concrete and place in an arctic mineshaft. I would guess that an honest cost benefit analysis would show nuclear more cost efficient, reliable and less hazardous than wind or solar which is one reason it wouldn’t be done.

  3. Nuclear, “this is the way”.
    Alberta / Saskatchewan should initiate a joint R&D effort on a LFTR. Yes, there are issues to be resolved, just like with anything else. Upon success (note the positivity), start the work on modularizing. Although not a nuclear engineer, I think I could be useful. Hell, I’d even work for free with the caveat of a small capital stake at the end (“just a wee percentage, I’m not greedy”).

    Off topic (my bad), anybody else noticing an awful lot of “died suddenly”(ies) lately. Man, I’m beginning to think som-ting-wong, som-ting terribly wong here.

  4. So Moe’s inclination and urge is to sit on his hands and ….hope and …wait, for the next federal election!! Maybe we will get lucky??
    Really Scott.
    Such a weak display of courage. Deflecting. A politicians character, not a statesman’s.
    “Who is the strong man? The one who conquers his urge(s).”
    Free The West!

    1. More silliness, and clearly you have no understanding of what Moe is stating. It’s very clear: there will be no useful energy development of any kind as long as the Trudeau Liberals continue to obstruct everything.

      “Free the West!” How absurd. You don’t even control your own provincial police force.

  5. The guy is an idiot. Tell Ottawa what they have to do. stop being a freaking coward hiding behind some sort of “law”.

  6. I don’t “understand” eh??
    That’s funny because you clearly don’t.
    We waited for Mulroney. Boy were we conned.
    Remember the CF18 contract?
    Then we waited for Manning and we know there is not one remnant left from that effort but Reforms pensions.

    Until they think we might get out they won’t do anything to keep us in.

  7. There is nothing wrong with nuclear energy. Or hydro, or coal, or oil, or gas. There are problems with how large projects are legislated and permitted and f&#ked up by governments but don’t blame the method, blame the madness.

    1. Exactly true, Steve. And by trashing the National Energy Board, the Trudeau government deliberately confused and complicated the situation to make it far more difficult to get anything approved. On top of all that, all regulatory bodies in this area have to deal with two thoroughly destructive pieces of nonsense: Social Licence, and Aboriginal Knowledge.

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