The Lucknow Sentinel, 2015-12-23, Page 3COP21 discussion lacked atomic
energy, says Bruce County warden Twolan
Darryl Coote
Kincardine News
Nuclear power was the ele-
phant in the room at the
recent climate change summit
in Paris, France, said Huron -
Kinloss mayor and Bruce
County warden Mitch
Twolan.
Mayor Twolan attended
the two-week event as chair
of the Great Lakes and St.
Lawrence Cities Initiative,
which, according to its web-
site, aims to protect and
restore the Great Lakes and
the St. Lawrence River.
He was In Paris from Dec.
4-8, and he told media here
following the Dec. 14 Huron -
Kinloss Council that nuclear
was not discussed at the
conference.
"That seemed to be the
theme. If you go to COP21,
the website, and type in
nuclear you will see nuclear
was absent at COP21," he
said, referring to the event by
its abbreviation. "... Nothing
was said."
Questions directed to the
COP21 media department to
find any reference to atomic
energy being discussed at
the conference, have yet to
be answered.
During the Paris summit it
was Canada's Environment
and Climate Change Minister
Catherine McKenna who
urged for an undercut to the
UN -proposed and already
ambitious target for lowering
greenhouse gases in a closed
door meeting during the
event.
Minister McKenna pro-
posed to restrict planetary
temperatures from rising
more than 1.5 degrees, a half
degree lower than the origi-
nal proposed 2 -degree limit.
The agreement made by
the 195 countries at the sum-
mit states its main aim as:
"to keep a global tempera-
ture rise this century well
below 2 degrees Celsius and
to drive efforts to limit the
temperature increase even
further to 1.5 degrees Celsius
above pre -industrial levels."
"[Minister McKenna]
came out with more of
aggressive temperature
change. Well, how else are
you going to do that without
nuclear? I'm sorry. This is
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impossible. It is impossible
to reduce carbons without
nuclear. I don't care what
anybody says," Twolan said.
However, not only was
nuclear not discussed, those
in support were mumm on
the topic, Mayor Twolan said.
"You'd be surprised. I
spoke to one person who
said they were basically sup-
portive of nuclear, but they
are not allowed to be sup-
portive of nuclear," he said.
When asked in a follow-up
phone interview why people,
particularly world leaders,
are reluctant to discussion
nuclear energy in connec-
tion to climate change,
Twolan said you'd have to
ask them.
"If climate change is going
to be achieved you must have
nuclear power in the mix. I'm
sorry, there is no other way to
make it happen," he said.
Mayor Twolan, who is war-
den of Bruce County that is
home to the world's largest
operating nuclear plant in
Bruce Power, said "without a
doubt" he discussed atomic
energy as part of the solution
to restrict planetary warming.
"I speak nuclear all the
time. Obviously, because I'm
the warden of the largest
nuclear facility on the planet
and obviously our council is
pro -nuclear. But it was defi-
nitely something that was
not discussed at that confer-
ence," he said during the
scrum following the recent
Huron -Kinloss Twp. Council
meeting.
Wind and solar, he said, are
also important aspects of the
solution to rising tempera-
tures, but those technologies
aren't yet advanced enough
to eclipse atomic energy.
"Baseload nuclear has to
be in the mix because ... the
sun doesn't shine in the
middle of the night, and if it's
not windy out the turbines
don't turn. Until storage
capabilities and the technol-
ogy is there for storage, you
still need base load and that
base load must be nuclear,"
he said. "It was like the ele-
phant in the bedroom. But at
the end of the day we need
nuclear -- And I'm not say-
ing wind and solar won't
catch up at some point,
we're just not there yet."
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"So where are we going to
find the money?" Mayor
Twolan asked of his chief
building officer.
"There might be some
grant funding opportuni-
ties that we can take
advantage of, rather than
trying to take new money
from the the tax base,
certainly I think there's
some opportunities," Far-
rell said.
Mayor Twolan then
asked for a timeline, to
which Bannerman replied
the first section from the
Kincardine boundary to
Conc. 12 can be done in
2016 with the other half in
2017.
"Alright," Mayor Twolan
said. "I'm hearing it's a
go, and now it's a matter
of finding it some money,
and go from there."
The trail project was
voted on and passed.
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