atomic energy of canada limited

I don't know how much ("taxpayers"/public) R&D money was invested in AECL since the 1940s, but in 2011 its technology sold for a mere $15 million, plus 15 years of royalties, which could net a return of ... (as much as!) ... $285 million.

In 2009 alone, it received $651 million in federal support. Optics: someone got a sweet deal. And it wasn't Linda Keen, the president of the Canadian Nuclear Safety Commission or any nuclear remediation people. I await the Canadian Taxpayers Federation report on this debacle.

Candu reactor, "CANada Deuterium Uranium"

Predictions. CBC is kind of a Crown Corporation, so it will go to Quebecor for $1.75. Canada Post, au revoir. The Bank of Canada and Royal Canadian Mint will get sucked into the U.S. Federal Reserve vortex of Fraser Institology um, City of London mergerness. Canadian Museum of Civilizational History, almost fini ($25 million). Military Museums, who knows, just say yay! illegal settlements, fait accompli. The Young Royals and The Baby will make many appearances during times of comet tails, Jesus, and Heavens to Betsy what's-her-name will look like a nice brunette Mary and madonna, just like a Warhol suddenly is on the Sotheby's market with #99. The U.S. will default on its debt, so the wars will be free!

That's how Minister Flaherty will balance his books, with fire sales.

lisa raitt: strikes are sexy

Never mind about the AECL Candu binder; it wasn't the same as Maxime Bernier (Beauce) and the tits cleavage biker chick NATO files. Never mind about the sexy isotope shortage for cancer patients. Never mind about no one signing off on the CEO, Toronto Port Authority expenses or a $9000 lunch. And just never mind about proroguing (and even more proroguing, forty days and forty nights). btw, are MPs 'essential services'?

Geez. Electro-Motive plant in London (now closed) and its Caterpillar parent strike in Joliet, Illinois. Canada Post. Air Canada flight attendants. Pilots. Mechanics ("flying coffins" & Aveos outsourcing), baggage handlers, cargo agents. Canadian Pacific Railway and Pershing Square's 14.2% equity stake.

Welp. Saskatchewan essential services legislation deemed unconstitutional (07 Feb. 2012).

Recalibration: On January 19, 2010, Raitt moved from the Ministry of Natural Resources to the Labour Ministry.

The house was beginning to shake,
And good press it just did not make.
So Steve shut it down, Caused the country to frown. But then he was
saved by a quake.  

Nuclear workers: 900 scientists, engineers, technologists and technicians said 94+ per cent of members sanctioned the strike action on Thursday, May 3rd 2012: a stinging indictment of SNC-Lavalin's cavalier management style and brinkmanship bargaining. A union spokeswoman said Candu is looking to gut most parts of the collective agreement.

Ongoing: RCMP officers want to end a ban, in place since 1918, on Mounties forming a union or police association and having the right to collectively bargain. (Toronto Star, Nov 20, 2012.) "Toxic workplace": Mounted Police Professional Association of Canada (MPPAC), a merger of BC and ON associations, is expecting a ruling from the Ontario Court of Appeal in spring 2012.

Lay-offs: Canadian Space Agency. 100 staff and more to come? Speaking of SNC-Lavalin Defence Programs Inc. (AECL) and MacDonald Dettwiler and Associates Inc., there's now a signed contract "to extend operational services for up to eight years for the Canadian Department of National Defence’s twelve Kingston-class Maritime Coastal Defence Vessels...Although their primary mission is coastal surveillance, the vessels perform a wide variety of operational tasks including search and rescue, fisheries and environmental monitoring, disaster relief, mine countermeasures and scientific research."

Does this make sense? The entire program of lay-offs in the public service is expected to cost Canadian taxpayers more than $2 billion.

Weird: Health care workers in Alberta have not had the legal right to strike since 1983.

federal budget 1812

It's an Industrial Revolution ! As long as miners, investors and stock market 'thought leaders' ccce's like it, yep, the main event, git 'er done. Wealth will trickle flake down like gold in Jason Kenney's ass trump's plane.

http://industrialchristmascarol.blogspot.ca/

Like effluent in tailings ponds, asbestos fibers in workers' lungs and happy uraniums for ... everybody! Nature Canada, press release: ... is particularly concerned about plans to amend the Metal Mining Effluent Regulations that expands a loophole in the Fisheries Act. Now, diamond and coal mining companies will join metal mining companies in being allowed to dump toxic waste into Canada’s living lakes.

(... few questions about MP pension plans, corporate lobbying, AECL/ SNC-Lavalin, CPP executive bonuses, F-35s.) Enough about metals, minerals, oil, gas, $13.5m for pipelines and $35.7m for tankers. It'll be fun setting up a full-fledged laboratory, somewhere, maybe the kitchen or beside the sofa, to test food product labels myself in my spare time - and when I let a company know about the results from my lab, it will can give itself a fine for possible misleading advertising or ... dangerous ingredients. hey... And why not test for GMOs too: I'll buy a book !

nestlé, plastic, water, uranium

And fuggetabout estrogenic agents like Bisphenol A (BPA) or chickmen, chickfrogs, and chickfish. It's true: “Everyone is aware of the role Nestlé plays in privatization of water and baby formula, and it will reflect back on the university,” he told the Journal.

So that's why an honorary degree for Peter Brabeck-Letmathe, chairman and former CEO of the Nestlé corporation, from the University of Alberta kinda... stinks, especially after the dean of medicine's plagiarism scandal last year.

Grand Canyon National Park

On an up note, uranium mining was banned around Grand Canyon National Park, for 20 years, and the park is banning the sale of plastic water bottles, after a year reviewing objections by Coca Cola/Dasani.

The new restrictions take effect within 30 days, and follow the example of Utah's Zion National Park,... Hawaii Volcanoes National Park, which offers water stations...  (Feb 8, 2012: USA Today)

Whitebark pines

Oh, federal budget, entire endangered species program gets less money than the cost of a single F-14. (Feb 19, 2012: Summit County Citizens Voice, Colorado)

Update: April 30, 2013. "Grand Canyon uranium mining set to go ahead despite ban from Obama" Canadian Energy Fuels Resources has been given federal approval to reopen its old Canyon Mine, located six miles south of the canyon's popular South Rim entrance, that attracts nearly 5 million visitors a year.

press release: atomic radiation is more harmful to women

NEW BRIEFING PAPER FROM NIRS: ATOMIC RADIATION IS MORE HARMFUL TO WOMEN
Nuclear Information & Resource Service
October 18, 2011
For Immediate Release

Excerpt: Women as a group suffer significantly more from the impact of ionizing radiation than do men. Today Nuclear Information and Resource Service published a Briefing Paper that focuses on a dramatic fifty-percent greater incidence of cancer and fifty-percent greater rate of death from cancer among women, compared to the same radiation dose level to men. To be clear: males suffer cancer and cancer death from exposure to ionizing radiation; but gender difference in the level of harm has been to date underreported.

salmon inquiry, 'events in Japan' & trout

The Cohen Commission (Commission of Inquiry into the Decline of Sockeye Salmon in the Fraser River) today heard from Kristi Miller, who's been under pressure it seems to say nothing public, like other scientists, about her study and federal government science... stuff. There appears to be a little funding problem.

A research program led by geneticist Kristi Miller which recently discovered a new virus that could be a factor in declining Fraser River sockeye has no funding to continue its work, the Cohen Commission heard Thursday. more (Vancouver Sun)

The Canadian Food Inspection Agency issued notification to media outlets that it was testing sockeye salmon for radiation levels in August and September 2011.

The federal government often refers to the reported meltdown of three nuclear reactors in Fukushima as "the events in Japan", rather than using more descriptive language. However, the words "nuclear crisis" appeared once in today's statement. more (Georgia Strait)

There was no spokesperson to take questions about the testing of 'this important commodity.'

In Yellowstone, between the lake and cutthroat trouts is a Judas team, 'a strike force in the biggest lake-trout-killing program in the nation.'

Plutonium, Cesium, Iodine, Uranium - Chernobyl Today

“After the explosion at Reactor 4 the people of Pripyat flocked on the railway bridge just outside the city to get a good view of the reactor and see what had happened."

The bridge of death

Chernobyl Today: A Creepy Story told in Pictures

Schools

“Deserted secondary school near Chernobyl, Illinsty, Ukraine. Dec 1995 0.96.07.01.19”

Coulter on Radiation: Your goldfish is sleeping

Deformity caused by radiation exposure from Chernobyl explosion

http://hoanw.blogspot.com/2011/02/risky-nuclear-experiments-on-global.html

O'Reilly, in response to this nonsense, jokingly said "we should all be heading for the nuclear reactor leaking and kind of sunbathing," to which Coulter actually agreed!