Energy Professionals Praise Pickering Nuclear Life Extension

The Society of United Professionals/IFPTE L160 is celebrating the Ontario government’s decision to seek regulatory approval for a life extension of Pickering Nuclear Generating Station to 2026.

The life extension will prevent 2.1 megatons of carbon emissions, preserve more than 3,000 good jobs, and give Ontario Power Generation time to conduct a feasibility study on refurbishing four Pickering reactors.

Michelle Johnston, President of the Society of United Professionals, remarked,

“Almost everything has changed since the province last ran the business case for a Pickering refurbishment. The price of gas has skyrocketed, the rapid shift from fossil fuels to electricity means Ontario now projects an energy deficit rather than surplus by the 2030s, and there is now a broad consensus on the moral and economic case for climate action.”

Read more at the Society’s website