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Apr
2024
The Core Business blog
To date most of our communications have been responsive and focused on correcting specific bits of misinformation. But there are wider issues where organizations are alluding to things that are […]
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Apr
2024
The Core Business blog
The nuclear industry has suffered badly from words being used to trick people into forming unhelpful images in their minds. Sometimes it happens by accident as the author fails to […]
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Feb
2024
The Walleye
In its February issue The Walleye, a monthly arts magazine for the people of Thunder Bay, published the attached article by a couple of anti NWMO campaigners. http://www.cns-snc.ca/wp-content/uploads/2024/02/Lloyd-February-2024.pdf We have […]
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Feb
2024
If you understand power generation, the Ford government’s decision on nuclear makes sense
Using the term renewable and notably including hydro has often been used to suggest that wind and solar based grids are possible. But the defining feature of wind and solar […]
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Jan
2024
The (highly predictable) crisis in Alberta, and the inadequate media response
Some years back I wrote an essay for LinkedIn entitled “What if I am wrong, What if they are wrong”, in which I considered the outcome of two different scenarios. […]
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Dec
2023
Are SMR companies “the bad guys”?
A while ago the National Observer published “Bad guys and bombs: The nuclear risks of small modular reactors” (https://www.nationalobserver.com/2023/11/03/news/bad-guys-bombs-nuclear-risks-small-modular-reactors). It follows an earlier article they produced in September about an […]
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Dec
2023
Communicating on Social Media
One of the problems that the nuclear industry has always had is that where communications are concerned it has to play the game on a very slanted playing field. Anti-nuclear […]
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Dec
2023
Communications Director or Head of Communications; Why should anyone care?
Those of you with an attention to detail may have noticed that my title has changed from Communications Director to Head of Communication. It’s a subtle but important change. When […]
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Oct
2023
Proactively communicating about nuclear issues
Our communications program began with us trying to correct misinformation by responding to media articles in which the misinformation was being spread. We learned that this quickly becomes a game […]
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Aug
2023
On how activists deploy propaganda techniques as they attempt to deceive
John Bennett, a Senior Policy Advisor to Friends of the Earth Canada and an ardent anti-nuclear campaigner responded to our letter in the Hill Times. I can reproduce his letter […]
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