Welcome to SPEA.ca

Hello and welcome to the Society of Professional Engineers and Associates (SPEA) website.

This website is used to communicate with the SPEA members, as well as provide a window on SPEA's activities to the outside world.

The member section of the website is a great source of useful information for SPEA members. 

January 15 2010 - Winnipeg Free Press - Have your say "Uranium bank useful idea"

December 18 2009 - Globe & Mail - Ottawa puts CANDU reactor division up for sale

December 18 2009 - Toronto Star - Ottawa seeks bidders for CANDU business

Ottawa seeks bidders for Candu business; Government moves to privatize Crown corporation Atomic Energy of Canada's nuclear-reactor division

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Toronto Star
18 December 2009
Tyler Hamilton

Ottawa figuratively hung a "for- sale" sign Thursday on embattled nuclear-reactor designer Atomic Energy of Canada Ltd., signalling to prospective investors that the federal government is now accepting formal bids for the crown corporation's commercial Candu business.

And it's not leaving any scenario off the table.

October 28 2009 - SPEA's Appearance before Natural Resources Canada Standing Committee

SPEA representatives participated in today's meeting of the Natural Resources Canada Standing Committee. Attached is SPEA's statement to the committee.

 

October 20 2009 - SPEA makes the news following it's press conference in Ottawa

 SPEA held a press conference yesterday to release this survey to the media.  Peter White, Mike Ivanco, Marius Vartolomei, and Michelle Duncan travelled to Ottawa to deliver our message, and SPEA has received a fair bit of coverage as a result. 

October 19 2009 - SPEA issues a press release "Government's own study concludes Canadians oppose AECL privatization"

http://www.marketwire.com/press-release/Spea-1061538.html

SPEA

Oct 19, 2009 10:31 ET

Government's own study concludes Canadians oppose AECL privatization

October 16 2009 - Letter to Editor - Nuclear Power in the Clear

http://www.queensjournal.ca/story/2009-10-16/opinions/letters-editors/

Nuclear power in the clear

Dear Editors,

Re: “Nuclear debate heats up on campus” (Oct. 13, 2009)

I’m a Queen’s graduate working in the nuclear industry and have responded in writing to many of Helen Caldicott’s opinion pieces published in Western Canadian newspapers.

October 15 2009 - AECL Engineers Urge Ottawa to Protect CANDU Technology

August 10 2009 - Telegraph Journal - Canada has laudable nuclear achievements

http://telegraphjournal.canadaeast.com/opinion/article/755596

Neil MacLean's letter (Aug. 6) has helped to bring the real issue of the energy hub to the opinion page.

Electricity use will increase in the future, whether it be for batteries to power our cars or hydrogen production to power our planes.

I would like to elaborate on his points.

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