I don't know whether they actually are going to build it, but it was (French) Total, not the Canadians, that was considering building a nuclear power plant to extract ultraheavy oil from the vast oil-sand fields of western Canada.

Of course, the nuclear reactors would be provided by (French) Areva, so everything remains with the family.

And notice that they would be getting ultraheavy oil (also known as tar) from the oil sands (formerly known as tar sands).

The real issue is that we have a lot of infrastructure built on gasoline that cannot be replaced overnight.

Can the last politician to go out the revolving door please turn the lights off?