{"id":1497,"date":"2007-08-30T19:12:00","date_gmt":"2007-08-30T23:12:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/?p=1497"},"modified":"2007-08-30T19:12:00","modified_gmt":"2007-08-30T23:12:00","slug":"nu-cu-lar-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/?p=1497","title":{"rendered":"Nu-Cu-Lar"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The nuclear debate has hit Alberta like a&#8230;nah&#8230;that&#8217;s too easy a simile to use.<\/p>\n<p>Anyways, nuclear power is the hot topic with a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.canada.com\/nationalpost\/financialpost\/story.html?id=5abaec4c-fb4e-421a-b797-df24464a52b9\">proposed nuclear power plant <\/a>being <span class=\"blsp-spelling-corrected\" id=\"SPELLING_ERROR_0\">discussed<\/span> to power the <span class=\"blsp-spelling-error\" id=\"SPELLING_ERROR_1\">oilsands<\/span>. As expected, politicians are distancing themselves from this proposal as if it were radioactive. (that one I couldn&#8217;t resist)<\/p>\n<p>I think the facts are fairly straightforward. Nuclear power is safe (so long as it&#8217;s not run by communists or Homer Simpson) and, if we&#8217;re serious about reducing <span class=\"blsp-spelling-error\" id=\"SPELLING_ERROR_2\">GHG<\/span> emissions, it&#8217;s essential. When you look at the cost of nuclear versus the cost of wind or solar, it becomes obvious that we&#8217;ll never be able to get off of <span class=\"blsp-spelling-error\" id=\"SPELLING_ERROR_3\">fosil<\/span> fuels without embracing nuclear power.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The nuclear debate has hit Alberta like a&#8230;nah&#8230;that&#8217;s too easy a simile to use. Anyways, nuclear power is the hot topic with a proposed nuclear power plant being discussed to power the oilsands. As expected, politicians are distancing themselves from this proposal as if it were radioactive. (that one I couldn&#8217;t resist) I think the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1497","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1497","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1497"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1497\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1497"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1497"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1497"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}