Natural Resources committee  No.

Natural Resources committee  First of all, I was introduced as the site vice-president for Pickering, which I no longer am, but I was the site vice-president for Pickering B and I re-licensed that plant in 2008. Clearly I've spent my 32-year career making an event that would require access to the act highly

Natural Resources committee  One of the files that I carry on behalf of the nuclear fleet is the plant security program. Since 9/11, the OPG program has developed substantially. We've enhanced the security of our facilities, and with the oversight of the Canadian Nuclear Safety Commission, we have significan

Natural Resources committee  The impact of premature closure of the plants would be significant. Obviously, the plant has tens of billions of dollars of assets. The Pickering site employs about 3,000 employees, the Darlington site about 1,600 staff, so it would have a very significant impact on the overall e

Natural Resources committee  Yes. It would certainly create a major problem for us in terms of dealing with that.

Natural Resources committee  Good afternoon. Thank you, Chair, and honourable members of the House of Commons Standing Committee on Natural Resources. I appreciate the opportunity to appear before you today as part of the committee’s work in studying Canada’s energy security and the contribution that nuclea

Natural Resources committee  Mr. Hawthorne talked a little about what has been asked for, which is essentially a field walkdown, and a confirmation that the defences that are designed and built and available are in place and robust. Independent reviews are going on by the site officers themselves, who are wa

Natural Resources committee  As I recall, the specific event was on August 1, 2003, I believe. That was the blackout in the northeastern U.S.

Natural Resources committee  As we are a learning organization, that event led all of us to examine and assess our defences at that time. One of the modifications in design that occurred at Pickering, where there were some issues around re-establishing class IV power to the grid to the Pickering plant, was t

Natural Resources committee  I would agree that the economics certainly is a large factor in terms of the long-term viability of any project. Certainly biomass is in itself fundamentally a risky project. We need a source, we need storage considerations, and there are many elements to beginning a biomass pr

Natural Resources committee  I'd have two specific things to say. Certainly there are hazards. No one would say that any technology is free of hazard, and we take great care with the fuel, which even after the reactor is shut down continues to generate heat and has fission products that we need to protect ou

Natural Resources committee  The environmental assessment has been submitted to the commission. The environmental assessment looks at a large array of potential impacts—economic, technical, environmental—and essentially the public consultation period began on March 21, and we are proceeding with that. The c

Natural Resources committee  I don't have those numbers, but certainly there were some questions about where the risk was going to be managed in the project.

Natural Resources committee  What we generally do is provide technical guidance around the best design, if you will, or the adequacy of the design.

Natural Resources committee  We are certainly speaking about the same thing. We're talking about essentially what our analysis shows is in the long run competitive, based on the expected performance of the plant. I don't have the numbers; I'm not directly involved with the new build proposal. I think it's