🇨🇦 Ottawa kills coal, then sells a floating reactor as reconciliation

Here is the scam in one frame: Ottawa forces Belledune off coal by 2030, then dangles a taxpayer-backed, not-yet-proven SMR scheme as the noble replacement. Two New Brunswick bands are being pitched Canada’s first Indigenous-owned transportable nuclear plant, funded in part with $2.75 million in federal cash and wrapped in the usual clean-energy sermon, as reported. Translation: federal policy breaks the existing grid, then subsidizes a futuristic demo project to patch the hole.

The real tell is phase two. This is not just about local power for up to 40,000 homes near Belledune. Prodigy wants a commercial fleet assembled at the port and shipped anywhere in the world. So the sales pitch is sovereignty and local ownership, while the business model is global export logistics and dependency on a technology the article admits has not been built on time and on budget in the G7. Trudeau-era Canada in a nutshell: ideology first, feasibility later, taxpayers always last.

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