Clean growth is anything but clean

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Clean growth is anything but clean

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by Ole Hendrickson July 8, 2024

Clean growth is neither clean, nor sustainable. Nuclear power is held up as an example of clean growth, but the extraction of nuclear materials, and their disposal after use can hardly be called “clean.”


EXCERPT: "A just-released report, Building Canada’s Clean Future, [ https://www.canada.ca/en/privy-council/ ... lan.html#2 ] contains a plan “to modernize federal assessment and permitting processes to get clean growth projects built faster.” Cabinet and Privy Council Office (PCO) appear to have fallen under the spell of corporations who claim that the federal government is slowing down their oil, gas, nuclear, and mining projects through excessive regulation. . . .

Adding the adjective “clean” does not make extractive technologies sustainable and beneficial for Indigenous and rural communities. To paraphrase David Suzuki, when terms like “clean energy”, “clean economy”, “clean growth”, and “clean future” are applied to mining uranium, clear-cutting forests, and fracking natural gas, “I want to puke”. [ https://www.cbc.ca/radio/checkup/is-it- ... -1.5731819 ] . . . .

Deregulation is a familiar nostrum. If the federal government would just get out of the way of large corporations, while still providing them with ample subsidies, all will be well — especially if enough First Nations buy into this neocolonial version of “reconciliation”. . . . . "

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