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Helen Caldicott warns about the still-present nuclear danger SCOTT HARRIS / scott@vueweekly.com For more than 35 years, Dr Helen Caldicott has been an outspoken critic of the follies of the nuclear age, dedicating her life to shining a spotlight on the risks posed to human health and the environment by both nuclear weapons and the widespread use of nuclear power.
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Premier Shawn Graham won't rule out the idea of New Brunswick becoming the storage site for nuclear waste from across the country. Instead, Graham said he wants to allow the process to select a site unfold and ensure New Brunswick is a partner in the discussions. "It's important that New Brunswick is at the table, in discussion with the stakeholders because we want to see what types of proposals are being put forward and my firm priority now is that New Brunswick should be involved in the process," said Graham.
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The Liberal government's road to self-sufficiency via energy exports may have encountered a speed bump yesterday. Massachusetts Governor Deval Patrick offered a reminder that the transmission capacity between Eastern Canada and the Northeastern United States is not the only challenge facing the energy exporting aspirations of Atlantic Canadian premiers and Quebec. As the biggest and most energy hungry state at the Conference of the New England Governors and Eastern Canadian Premiers, Massachusetts represents the biggest target for Canadian premiers who are hoping to cash in on energy exports.
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Quebec will retain its toehold in Canada's nuclear industry by going ahead with a major retrofit of its lone nuclear power plant. Hydro-Québec announced Tuesday it will spend $1.9 billion to overhaul the aging Gentilly-2 plant near Trois-Rivieres, Que. It is hoped the extensive renovations will extend the power plant's lifespan to 2040.
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Three companies vying to build Canada´s first new nuclear power reactors in 15 years will have an extra three months to make their pitch to the Ontario government, Energy Minister George Smitherman said Friday. The extension of the deadline until the end of the year is needed because of the complexity of the multibillion-dollar project, Smitherman said.
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The Bruce Power partnership predicts a nuclear plant in the Peace River region of Alberta would contribute $12 billion to the province's economy during the construction period and would generate 2,700 long-term jobs. "While more detailed work needs to be done, this early report paints a good picture of the economic benefits our proposal could bring to the Peace Country," Duncan Hawthorne, president of Bruce Power Alberta, said in releasing the partnership's study Tuesday.
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Recently, the Saskatoon Star Phoenix carried an op-ed (SaskPower Must Own Nuclear Reactor) that made the case for the province to invest in a major facility like a nuclear reactor.
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Ontario’s decision to build new nuclear reactors to maintain the province’s generating capacity as it turns away from coal-fired plants carries long-term risks and will have consumers digging deeper into their pocket books to cover inevitable cost overruns, a Niagara opposition MPP warns. “It has inherent dangers, it has long-term risk in terms of disposing of spent fuel and also it’s very, very expensive electricity,” says Welland NDP MPP Peter Kormos. “The cost overruns are huge, inevitably, and that means the consumer will be paying and paying and paying more and more and more.”
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Ontarians should brace themselves for sticker shock when they see the price of new nuclear reactors, Premier Dalton McGuinty suggests. While the province's electricity supply plan estimates the cost of new and refurbished reactors at $26.3 billion over the next 20 years, there's no way of pinpointing the new reactor cost.
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The problems surrounding the Maple reactors and Atomic Energy of Canada Ltd. should give Ontarians and their government considerable pause. First, Queen's Park is considering pouring billions of dollars into building several new reactors to alleviate Ontario's energy crunch. The woes of AECL, despite the fact that a federal Crown corporation would naturally be the favourite choice of the province, show the operation has major technical and administrative problems. That makes it difficult to choose its reactors for the province's energy build-out.
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People in northern Saskatchewan are of two minds about a possible nuclear power station in their region. A consultant's report prepared for SaskPower and obtained by CBC earlier this week named Lac La Loche as one of two regions where a nuclear reactor might be located.
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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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Alberta and Saskatchewan are competing to house Western Canada's first commercial nuclear power plant, Saskatchewan's Natural Resources Minister Bill Boyd confirmed Tuesday. The energy point man for the recently elected and decidedly pro-business Saskatchewan Party said his government has held "early" talks with Bruce Power LP, the private nuclear operator from western Ontario, which laid out plans in March for a $10-billion-plus nuclear complex near Peace River, in Alberta's northwest Peace Country, operating by 2017.
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Possible shortage of super-forged parts threatens to delay renaissance
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CALGARY, Alberta, April 23 (Reuters) - The Alberta government has appointed a panel of scientific, business, economic experts to study the pros and cons of nuclear power as one developer considers a C$10 billion ($9.8 billion) plant amid opposition by some environmentalists.
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