Comments for Len Taylor http://fakerobwall.com/lentaylor MLA for The Battlefords Mon, 30 Nov 2009 14:27:06 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 Comment on Question Period on Sask Hospital by Ed White http://fakerobwall.com/lentaylor/?p=96&cpage=1#comment-23 Ed White Mon, 30 Nov 2009 14:27:06 +0000 http://lentaylormla.ca/?p=96#comment-23 Len is a great representative for the Battlefords. The SP are really good at making announcements, but not so good at simple math. We are in a big financial hole, thanks to our math-challenged premier and finance minister. We have to get rid of these guys before we end up in the same shape we found ourselves in in 1991...then spend years cleaning up the mess...and then blame the government doing the cleanup, rather than the rats that created it. Len is a great representative for the Battlefords. The SP are really good at making announcements, but not so good at simple math. We are in a big financial hole, thanks to our math-challenged premier and finance minister. We have to get rid of these guys before we end up in the same shape we found ourselves in in 1991…then spend years cleaning up the mess…and then blame the government doing the cleanup, rather than the rats that created it.

]]> Comment on Bruce Power Proposal needs serious review by Stephen Palsich http://fakerobwall.com/lentaylor/?p=27&cpage=1#comment-22 Stephen Palsich Mon, 09 Mar 2009 19:05:36 +0000 http://lentaylormla.ca/?p=27#comment-22 The cost of decommissioning a nuclear facility is truly an unknown quantity, due the indeterminate costs for storage and monitoring of high-level waste (HLW), composed mostly of spent fuel and reactor core structural material. Even deep geological storage facilities require monitoring for a minimum of 10,000 years, and possibly as long as 250,000 years. Yucca Mountain, the deep geological storage facility in Nevada, is still not online due, in part, to evidence that ground water has found its way into the storage caverns, once described as impervious. Saskatchewan is likely targeted for such a deep storage facility, due to the relatively stable geological structure provided by the Canadian Shield, and proximity of abandoned uranium mines. This is a slippery slope of escalating involvement in the nuclear industry. So we must ask ourselves: Will we have gained enough benefit from nuclear energy to justify burdening the next 1,000 generations with our radioactive garbage? Is there no other technology that could be utilized to feed or control our ever-increasing appetite for energy? Our technological advances have always outpaced the social maturity of our species. Given what we now know the most important question is, "Are we willing and able to make not just the popular or profitable choice, but the right choice for our current and future generations?" The cost of decommissioning a nuclear facility is truly an unknown quantity, due the indeterminate costs for storage and monitoring of high-level waste (HLW), composed mostly of spent fuel and reactor core structural material. Even deep geological storage facilities require monitoring for a minimum of 10,000 years, and possibly as long as 250,000 years. Yucca Mountain, the deep geological storage facility in Nevada, is still not online due, in part, to evidence that ground water has found its way into the storage caverns, once described as impervious. Saskatchewan is likely targeted for such a deep storage facility, due to the relatively stable geological structure provided by the Canadian Shield, and proximity of abandoned uranium mines. This is a slippery slope of escalating involvement in the nuclear industry.
So we must ask ourselves:
Will we have gained enough benefit from nuclear energy to justify burdening the next 1,000 generations with our radioactive garbage?
Is there no other technology that could be utilized to feed or control our ever-increasing appetite for energy?
Our technological advances have always outpaced the social maturity of our species. Given what we now know the most important question is, “Are we willing and able to make not just the popular or profitable choice, but the right choice for our current and future generations?”

]]> Comment on Bruce Power Proposal needs serious review by Lori Bargen http://fakerobwall.com/lentaylor/?p=27&cpage=1#comment-21 Lori Bargen Thu, 11 Dec 2008 17:03:56 +0000 http://lentaylormla.ca/?p=27#comment-21 Dear Len, Thank you for writing down many of the same thoughts that have been in the back of my mind. As a life-time resident of the Battleford area, I have huge concerns about the safety of this project. It concerns me that everytime I turn on the local radio station I hear ads promoting the "1,000 safe jobs" that this reactor will bring. How can they say that it will be safe? And with the shrinking future work force, where are we going to find 1,000 qualified people? A business in Regina had to announce closure two days ago because of a lack of work force. I want the Battlefords to remain a safe area to raise my family. I want to continue to work and live here. I do not want to have my home hijacked by a company that is clearly looking out for their best interests - not mine. Thanks, Lori Dear Len,

Thank you for writing down many of the same thoughts that have been in the back of my mind. As a life-time resident of the Battleford area, I have huge concerns about the safety of this project. It concerns me that everytime I turn on the local radio station I hear ads promoting the “1,000 safe jobs” that this reactor will bring. How can they say that it will be safe? And with the shrinking future work force, where are we going to find 1,000 qualified people? A business in Regina had to announce closure two days ago because of a lack of work force.

I want the Battlefords to remain a safe area to raise my family. I want to continue to work and live here. I do not want to have my home hijacked by a company that is clearly looking out for their best interests – not mine.

Thanks,
Lori

]]> Comment on Thoughts on the Spring 2008 Session by Wayne McGregor http://fakerobwall.com/lentaylor/?p=16&cpage=1#comment-20 Wayne McGregor Sat, 24 May 2008 06:24:19 +0000 http://lentaylormla.ca/2008/05/23/thoughts-on-the-spring-2008-session/#comment-20 Thank you for a well researched article. Thank you for a well researched article.

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