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Nine years ago the UN and the World Bank planned to mobilize financing for Sustainable Energy for All. While consumers in the broad Great Lakes region squirm over the prospect of a porous limestone depository for nuclear waste along the shore of Lake Huron, some recent readinga prompted the above caption. The story picks up steam in the European Union. Indeed, Germany will likely be the initial market for the 24/7 products of Leonardo Corporation and AuerionEnergy.ca. Of course, solar/wind systems also provide localized clean energy generation, distribution and ownership. All this transpires while big food processors and manufacturers move south because of Ontario's poor competitive environment, e.g, Heinz and Volvo. The survivors are now reeling in the face of the 30% rate increase on nuclear generated electricity requested by Ontario Power Generation. Meanwhile, state-side, nuclear plants are shutting down and coal-fired plants are being converted to shale gas. And, big r...

As long as the United Nation's nonproliferation treaty deals only with weapons, and the UN tolerates proliferation of uranium fueled energy plants, rogue nations will entertain clandestine efforts to enter the nuclear club; especially with Russian action to use nuclear missiles against a neighbour and North Korea threatens to annihilate South Korea, while Western nations jointly declare "nuclear energy"green" -and the only way forward./b> The Director General of World Nuclear Association stated: “The European Parliament’s positive vote sends a clear endorsement of nuclear energy. It listened to the science and recognised that investment in nuclear energy will help the EU reach net-zero by 2050." International parliments ignore the fact that over 400 risky nuclear plants are operating well beyond their designed lifetimes. And they ignore the devastatiion wrought at Chernobyl, Fukushima, Kyshtym, Three Mile Island, Windscale plus Bikini Atoll, Hiroshima an...