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Politics : Canadian Political Free-for-All -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Cogito Ergo Sum who wrote (4040)	4/23/2004 1:40:30 AM
From: Michael Watkins	Respond to of 37256

France is quite an anomaly in western countries. Perhaps its naive of me to assume that their fascination with nuclear energy is not driven simply by a desire to have ample energy, rather instead they are fueled (pun intended) by their (rather arrogant) desire to sit at the table of nuclear weapon capable states to somehow justify their international importance. Or perhaps that feeling of mine is not so naive of me after all... France has regular high alerts concerning their nuclear infrastructure due to increased threats of terrorist attack. One hopes they have a Proportional Representation system in place for we are being led by a certain northern European PR proponent to understand that PR solves all ills. Surely the PR super-heros will safeguard France's nuclear establishment! Holy Kryptonite! I certainly am not arguing that miles of pipeline or even transmission lines from coal, nuke or hydro plants are not themselves terrorist targets... a big bomb driven into a certain central Albertan nat gas plant I once did some work at would certainly make a big mess there. But generally speaking, a massive destructive event at any "traditional" energy producing facility will not make our land uninhabitable for decades or centuries and potentially eliminate a huge percentage of our arable land mass from food production use for generations to come. The nuclear energy lobbyists always come out of the woodwork when traditional energy becomes expensive. They are patient folks it seems. Reduction and investment in other, cleaner and safer alternatives would be on top of my list of future plans, not at the bottom where nuclear energy should be.