Natural Resources committee  It's an excellent question. In my career in the industry, which spans 38 years, I've seen this issue of surplus baseload generation come up three times. We've gotten into periods where we've had more than enough generation capacity for the load. It goes up and down. But when it's

Natural Resources committee  With regard to the operation and maintenance of the plants, as Patrick indicated, these plants have been producing power safely in Ontario now for over 40 years. They produce over 52% of our energy currently. Our members are quite comfortable with the operation. I think it's im

Natural Resources committee  We're certainly for the restructuring. I think for AECL to be successful on a go-forward basis, it has to be able to operate like a commercial entity. I think the partnership model is probably a good one. One observation, though, would be that if you want to continue with a scie

Natural Resources committee  I'm not promoting one method over the other. What I would say, though, is that power reactors are a totally different operation from research reactors; they're two completely different scenarios. There are probably scenarios where they could function independently. I'm not promot

Natural Resources committee  Good afternoon, Chair Benoit and members of the committee. Thank you for inviting the Power Workers' Union to present our views on the state of the nuclear industry in Canada and abroad. For over 63 years, the Power Workers' Union has been representing the interests of more than