Comments on: Clement gets it wrong. http://www.hubbers.ca/blog/2007/12/19/clement-gets-it-wrong/ picturing life in Aurora, Ontario Fri, 03 Sep 2010 16:20:12 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 By: KPK http://www.hubbers.ca/blog/2007/12/19/clement-gets-it-wrong/comment-page-1/#comment-480 KPK Thu, 20 Dec 2007 23:23:42 +0000 http://hubbers.ca/blog/2007/12/19/clement-gets-it-wrong/#comment-480 JimBobby, If MDS failed to procure supplies, then there is no guarantee they would procure it immediately even if they were forced to. I assume they would be put on a waiting list. JimBobby,

If MDS failed to procure supplies, then there is no guarantee they would procure it immediately even if they were forced to. I assume they would be put on a waiting list.

]]> By: JimBobby http://www.hubbers.ca/blog/2007/12/19/clement-gets-it-wrong/comment-page-1/#comment-479 JimBobby Thu, 20 Dec 2007 13:35:29 +0000 http://hubbers.ca/blog/2007/12/19/clement-gets-it-wrong/#comment-479 Whooee! What should they have done? They should have used the mitigation plan that was drawn up years ago -- in 1996. That's right. They had a plan for alternate suppliers to meet MDS's demand. In 1997-8, the plan was implemented to allay shortages during a labour dispute that shut down Chalk River. The plan was proven to work in a real-life situation. The only reason this became a crisis is because MDS Nordion failed to procure alternate supplies. The crisis was entirely avoidable and manufactured. When Harper rushed legislation through a panicked Parliament, he failed to inform the ignoramus MP's that there was an option that did not require a potentially unsafe restart of NRU. MDS's profit margin would suffer if it was forced to go to its Belgian subsidiary (IRE) for isotopes. They simply allowed the shortage to happen and called on their salesman in Parliament to restore their profitable source of isotopes. Harper wants to sell AECL. He is ideologically opposed to crown corporations. That is the underlying factor that is affecting everything about this scandal. JB Whooee! What should they have done? They should have used the mitigation plan that was drawn up years ago — in 1996. That’s right. They had a plan for alternate suppliers to meet MDS’s demand.

In 1997-8, the plan was implemented to allay shortages during a labour dispute that shut down Chalk River. The plan was proven to work in a real-life situation.

The only reason this became a crisis is because MDS Nordion failed to procure alternate supplies. The crisis was entirely avoidable and manufactured.

When Harper rushed legislation through a panicked Parliament, he failed to inform the ignoramus MP’s that there was an option that did not require a potentially unsafe restart of NRU.

MDS’s profit margin would suffer if it was forced to go to its Belgian subsidiary (IRE) for isotopes. They simply allowed the shortage to happen and called on their salesman in Parliament to restore their profitable source of isotopes.

Harper wants to sell AECL. He is ideologically opposed to crown corporations. That is the underlying factor that is affecting everything about this scandal.

JB

]]> By: Green Assassin Brigade http://www.hubbers.ca/blog/2007/12/19/clement-gets-it-wrong/comment-page-1/#comment-478 Green Assassin Brigade Thu, 20 Dec 2007 13:13:12 +0000 http://hubbers.ca/blog/2007/12/19/clement-gets-it-wrong/#comment-478 This was all just a contrived scenerio in an attempt to show mismanagement and justify privatization. Mind you there certainly has been mismanagement considering the poor design of the new Maple reactors and the massive cost over runs, This was all just a contrived scenerio in an attempt to show mismanagement and justify privatization.

Mind you there certainly has been mismanagement considering the poor design of the new Maple reactors and the massive cost over runs,

]]> By: Leo Petr http://www.hubbers.ca/blog/2007/12/19/clement-gets-it-wrong/comment-page-1/#comment-477 Leo Petr Thu, 20 Dec 2007 04:53:32 +0000 http://hubbers.ca/blog/2007/12/19/clement-gets-it-wrong/#comment-477 Well, there were backup sources in other countries. The problem is that they all decided to go down for maintenance at the same time. It's a weird coincidence. Well, there were backup sources in other countries. The problem is that they all decided to go down for maintenance at the same time. It’s a weird coincidence.

]]> By: KPK http://www.hubbers.ca/blog/2007/12/19/clement-gets-it-wrong/comment-page-1/#comment-476 KPK Thu, 20 Dec 2007 01:37:12 +0000 http://hubbers.ca/blog/2007/12/19/clement-gets-it-wrong/#comment-476 <p>Quite frankly there should of been a mitigation plan years ago in case something like this happened. I cringe at the overall incompetence of our political leaders. They should of at least had a backup source where these isotopes could have been produced - even in another country.</p> <p><em>Agreed. --Glenn</em></p> Quite frankly there should of been a mitigation plan years ago in case something like this happened. I cringe at the overall incompetence of our political leaders. They should of at least had a backup source where these isotopes could have been produced – even in another country.

Agreed. –Glenn

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