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Natural Resources committee I don't know the details of competition within the industry. I would just say that at a high level--and I will ask Murray afterwards why there has been such a blockage on this--I don't think you would see any opposition to that in principle, although I do not know the details.
November 16th, 2009Committee meeting
Shawn-Patrick Stensil
Natural Resources committee Not to my knowledge. As I mentioned, in this industry it began in the 1950s, when the American vendors started looking to export overseas and they were worried about being sued in other jurisdictions. That's when these liability regimes started to be imposed in other countries, b
November 16th, 2009Committee meeting
Shawn-Patrick Stensil
Natural Resources committee Basically, I think we are saying the same thing. We do not want insurance costs to be paid by the federal government or by taxpayers. The industry has to pay them. There are two aspects to that. We have to make sure that there is enough money to pay for damages in the case of an
November 16th, 2009Committee meeting
Shawn-Patrick Stensil
Natural Resources committee In Germany, they look at insurance in a different way. I think the English word is “security”. They have to have $2.5 billion in reserve in case of an incident. That is not quite enough, but it is better. In the long term, if the industry knows that it is going to be held respons
November 16th, 2009Committee meeting
Shawn-Patrick Stensil
Natural Resources committee I do not think so. I do not know how to say “security” in French; I do not think that it is insurance. Perhaps Murray knows. They have another way of putting aside the money—the $2.5 billion. Does that answer your question?
November 16th, 2009Committee meeting
Shawn-Patrick Stensil
November 16th, 2009Committee meeting
Shawn-Patrick Stensil
Natural Resources committee Thank you very much for this opportunity to speak to you again. Greenpeace released a report today analyzing the subsidies that are provided to the nuclear industry by this act. I hope you have received it by e-mail; it will also be provided to the clerk. Il y a aussi un résumé
November 16th, 2009Committee meeting
Shawn-Patrick Stensil
Natural Resources committee I'll raise a different line of questioning that the committee may want to examine, which is the ethics of what sorts of international safety standards we would be applying in selling a generation II reactor. This is a pre-Chernobyl, pre-September 11 reactor. Notably, in 2005, t
October 26th, 2009Committee meeting
Shawn-Patrick Stensil
Natural Resources committee It's partly to get a bid out. Also, no other activities have been happening in the province, such as the green energy act. The province also paused its electricity plan review and is revising its targets. The percentage of nuclear and the timing may in fact change, so that's im
October 26th, 2009Committee meeting
Shawn-Patrick Stensil
Natural Resources committee Thank you. It's a very good question. Greenpeace has focused quite a bit of work on the development of Ontario's electricity plan. I think if you take two steps back from this debate, the province has the jurisdiction over its developing energy policy. In 2005 it developed a lon
October 26th, 2009Committee meeting
Shawn-Patrick Stensil
Natural Resources committee That's a very good question, and I don't have the answer to it, the final part. That's one of the reasons we asked the question of the Environment Commissioner. The Environment Commissioner can demand that NRCan respond within three months, so we hope this will force them to resp
October 26th, 2009Committee meeting
Shawn-Patrick Stensil
Natural Resources committee Thank you very much. Regarding the figures, I was here last week when the minister said that the subsidies amounted to $8 billion. For some reason, every time the federal government prepares estimates on AECL, it does so in dollars of the year. The standard practice is for accou
October 26th, 2009Committee meeting
Shawn-Patrick Stensil
Natural Resources committee Thank you very much. I will give my presentation in English, but I will be pleased to answer your questions and comments in French. Thank you very much for the invitation to speak to you today. You're dealing with a very important topic. It's one that Greenpeace doesn't believ
October 26th, 2009Committee meeting
Shawn-Patrick Stensil
Natural Resources committee I didn't state an opinion on that per se. If my memory serves, there has been a change since 2001 in European conventions regarding responsibility for terrorist attacks. I'd have to confirm that. My point was that under the Nuclear lLability Act as proposed, nuclear operators
November 27th, 2007Committee meeting
Shawn-Patrick Stensil
Natural Resources committee That's a great question, because it raises an issue I forgot to mention in my presentation. As I mentioned, I filed a petition with the Environment Commissioner. There had been previous petitions, again, as a way of trying to push previous governments to table this legislation.
November 27th, 2007Committee meeting
Shawn-Patrick Stensil