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Re: [cdn-nucl-l] Walrus CANDU
Andy,
Thanks for the vote of support. I have my wife to thank for
congealing that thought in my mind. As a non-Catholic Social Worker
dealing with unmarried young pregnant Catholic girls, the issue of 'to
abort or not' naturally came up with all its religious
implications. My wife's very wise strategy was to make sure that
the client had all the information presented in a balanced manner and
that the client was supported fully throughout the decision making
process and beyond. The young girl was empowered to make the
decision - and rightly so, given that it was her life and her child's
life that was on the table. It is no less so for nuclear
power. Our client, in this case, is the public community.
Bill
At 09:02 AM 05/09/2006, Andy wrote:
"It seems that working with
reporters to help them understand the issues - as opposed to just telling
them answers - is the empowering way to go."......
And that, Bill, pretty much
sums up the Canadian nuclear industry's biggest problem. The most
vocal of us tend to treat people as if they were idiots, telling them
that they should listen to us because we are so smart and they
aren't. You catch more flies with honey than you do with sh*t!
If we are going to succeed, your
approach is the way to go.
Cheers,
Andy
----- Original Message -----
- From: Bill Garland
- To:
Nuclear
- Sent: Tuesday, September 05, 2006 7:54 AM
- Subject: Re: [cdn-nucl-l] Walrus CANDU
- The author and I had a few sessions together as he was researching
for that article. He is a few years out of school (ie young
compared to me) and seems to have an open mind. Nice fellow.
We chatted extensively about technical issues, and the history and
politics of CANDU. None of what we chatted about was in the article
but I think the chats helped him understand the issues in a more balanced
perspective. Perhaps he would have written the same article without
the chats. It reminds me of the conversations I had with a reporter
from Hamilton 12 years ago when the McMaster reactor has issues. It
seems that working with reporters to help them understand the issues - as
opposed to just telling them answers - is the empowering way to go.
Clair Ripley and David Mosey found the same thing, as I recall. I
am a big fan of helping others to think as opposed to telling them what
to think.
- This is off your point, Randal, hope you don't mind.
- Bill
- At 12:30 AM 05/09/2006, Randal Leavitt wrote:
- "The Walrus" - my favourite Magazine, and it's Canadian
too.
- In "The Walrus", September 2006 Volume 3 Issue 7
- Will CANDU Do?
- by Paul Webster
- The article ends with this statement:
- "If the competition wins out, a question will remain: should the
CANDU
- be romanticized like the Avro Arrow as a technological triumph
that
- should never have been abandoned, or pilloried as the most
expensive
- mistake in the nation's history?"
- I have been writing about this question for a couple of years now,
and
- still don't know the answer. If Ontario abandons the CANDU then
30,000
- jobs go down the tubes, but we perhaps get more standardized in
our
- electricity generation technology. If we keep the jobs, do we
also get
- an albatross hung around our necks? It is a fiendishly
difficult
- decision. I would like to see the Canadian technology continue,
and I
- also liked the Arrow, but the wind seems to be blowing the other
way.
- The Paul Webster article is worth reading. I got all the way
through it
- without exploding. It portrays the Canadian CANDU dilemma in
fairly
- clear terms.
- --
- Randal Leavitt ---------- gnupg public key: bbbad04d
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McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, CANADA L8S 4L7, Tel:
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