SASKATOON -- A lake that helps provide drinking water to about 40 per cent of Saskatchewan residents is the provincial power utility's preferred site for a nuclear power plant, a national media outlet reported Wednesday. CBC News said a report by Stantec Consulting Ltd., prepared in February 2007, says a power plant at Elbow, near Lake Diefenbaker in southern Saskatchewan, would be preferable to other sites.

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FREDERICTON - Natural Resources Minister Donald Arseneault isn't backing down from his position that uranium exploration doesn't pose any dangers, despite British Columbia's recent decision to ban exploration of the element. "Every jurisdiction has its own premise on why they should go in a certain direction or not, and it's no different for New Brunswick," said Arseneault.

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