(Saskatchewan premier) Brad Wall established the Uranium Development Partnership, UDP.
The mandate for the UDP is “to identify, evaluate and make recommendations on Saskatchewan-based value-added opportunities to further develop our uranium industry.”
This is not about reducing greenhouse gases, finding the most economical energy source or any other benefit the report may refer to.
The recommendations in the report are targeted at developing the uranium industry, plain and simple.
The UDP made 20 recommendations and the flagship recommendation is to build a $10 billion nuclear reactor in Saskatchewan.
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The report goes on to say the private sector cannot build a reactor without government subsidies.
So is a nuclear reactor really the best way to spend billions of our tax dollars?
The only way to be certain is for the provincial government to take the next logical and prudent step, establish an expert renewable energy task force to carefully examine these growing energy sources.
Then we will have the information required to look critically at both nuclear and green energy and choose the future energy supply that makes the most sense.
It’s your tax bill that pays for these projects so let’s make sure they spend our money wisely. …
