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Nuke ém
A Slave Lake town councillor wanted to know how Peace River and Whitecourt came to be on some kind of short list for a $6.4 billion nuclear power plant.
“Did they send out some kind of letter? Was there any information at all this was coming down the road?’’ she asks.
Local governments might ask the same question. The taxes such a plant will pay dwarf anything collected locally. The taxes paid in one year by the Peace River plant, if it is approved and when it is completed, will be about 25 times what the entire community of High Prairie pays right now. One could build five, count them, five complete new rec plexes with a swimming pool, every year! Wow! So one would think, politicians across Alberta would be chomping at the bit to land the plant.
Of course, they would have to know about it. In this, it is difficult to imagine polticians who wax ecstatic about the lobster on their latest taxpayer paid junket to Newfoundland, or rave about the golf on their latest taxpayer funded trip to Kananaskis, knowing much about anything when it comes to growth and development.
At least, the politician from Slave Lake cared. How many towns and counties and municipal districts around Alberta talked about this at a meeting? How many governments made a few phone calls, just to get some kind of lowdown?
Likely, if the past track record of these governments is any indication, not very many could be troubled.
If there was any effort, it should be all over the pages of local newspapers across Alberta. We haven’t seen any such thing. Tsk. Tsk.
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