Ontario Minister of Energy Todd Smith with Bruce Power CEO and President Mike Rencheck, top, and Huron-Bruce MPP Lisa Thompson, below, during Wednesday's press conference Wednesday, July 5, at the Douglas Point site in Huron County.

There's nothing Hub staff doesn't love more than parades and pie, unless it's professional politicians' press conferences.

Our photographer accepted a last-minute assignment to cover yesterday's announcements at Bruce Power's Douglas Point site.

He reports there was no pie – but there was an abundance of breath mints.

Ontario Minister of Energy Todd Smith arrives at the press conference.

Energy Minister Todd Smith announcing the his government's planning for future energy needs.

Minister Smith has the support of Grey-Bruce-Owen Sound MPP Rick Byers, above, as well as Bruce Power CEO and President Mike Rencheck, Bruce Power Head of Corporate Affairs Pat Dalzell, Minister Smith's parliamentary assistant, Stéphane Sarrazin, as well as Huron-Bruce MPP Lisa Thompson, the Minister of Agriculture, Food and Rural Affairs, and the mayor of Kincardine, Kenneth Craig.

Minister Smith indicated consulations will be part of the conversations moving forward.

Documentation is serious business as the press conference winds to a close and members of the press look longingly at the air-conditioned coaches that brought them to the sun-drenched site while members of the caucus, their work never really done, look to catch up with friends and colleagues.

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While the Hub may not have any nuclear physicists on staff, we do have a way with words, and we'd respectfully like to suggest as strongly as we can, a moniker for the next nuclear power facility, the third in the current series.

The first set was called Bruce A.

It was followed of course by Bruce B.

But this time, the Hub proposes something perhaps a bit more personable without straying too far from the original concept:

Brucie.

You read it here first, and we'll say it again: Brucie.

(The Hub also has experienced imagineers on staff, but we're not convinced their so-called perfect idea of great huge glow-in-the-dark googley eyes installed on the concrete containment domes is a viable one.)

– by Hub staff
David Galway