Community Check-in: Tri-County Hello
Hey everyone, it’s Alison Fernandes, OCNI’s Manager of Bruce Power & Community Relations! As many of you know, I cover the Tri-County Region consisting of Grey, Bruce & Huron Counties assisting our members with localization, diversification, retention and collaboration within the Nuclear Industry and the local communities as a whole. 2020 So Far – Lessons […]
Ops Notes: Let’s Get Uncomfortable
Well This Is Awkward As anyone involved in staffing or who manages even one individual knows there will be times when you will need to have awkward conversations. These could be on everything from work performance to tardiness to theft of yogurt from a fridge. How you approach these conversations usually depends on the working […]
Indigenous Engagement in the Time of COVID
Indigenous Engagement in Nuclear In the years and months prior to the COVID-19 pandemic, Indigenous engagement was an important priority for many companies in the nuclear supply chain. Responding to shifting social values, customer and market incentives, and new benchmarks for Coroporate Social Responsibility (CSR) and Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) practices, executives and employees sought […]
The OCNI Effect
In my June blog I wrote about the “Oberth Effect” (discovered by Hermann the rocket pioneer not Ron????) which shows that a spacecraft can achieve a higher altitude orbit by firing its rocket engine at a specific point in its orbit. OCNI faced a challenge to its “nuclear supply chain orbit” in March when the COVID-19 pandemic […]