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Select committee on Ontario Hydro nuclear affairs- part 1 of 2
(October 20, 1997) The Chair (Mr Derwyn Shea): We are prepared to carry on now in public session. I’d like to welcome the deputants, the witnesses for this afternoon and for this evening. For the record, to remind us, this committee has been in session since 2 pm. It is now almost 5:15 pm. It has been in private session on briefings and it is now prepared to return to the witness schedule. Continue reading
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DuPont: A Case Study in 3D Corporate Strategy
(September 1, 1997) The response to the ozone crisis by DuPont, the inventor of CFCs and the largest producer of ozone depleting chemicals in the world is a prime example of the 3D corporate strategy. Continue reading
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Ontario Hydro Meltdown
(August 25, 1997) Carl Andognini gives his diamond pinky ring a fiddle and offers a thin smile. A very thin smile. He has just come from yet another meeting with a crowd of ONTARIO HYDRO staffers in the mega-corporation’s mirrored headquarters in downtown Toronto. He has had 40 such meetings “around the system,” as he says, since landing a bombshell report in the lap of the utility’s board of directors last week. Continue reading
CANDU Flawed
(August 25, 1997) In the belly of the nuclear beast, the massive domes of the reactors rise ominously to a height of more than 45 m, their radioactive interiors visible only through the thick windows of airlocks. One level up at Ontario Hydro’s sprawling Pickering station, 40 km east of Toronto, steam-driven turbines crouch under an array of blue, green and yellow pipes. Continue reading
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Hydro thorn Energy Probe rooted on the right
(August 23, 1997) When Ontario Hydro’s reactor woes made headlines last week, no one was in more demand than a small Toronto anti-nuclear group called Energy Probe. Continue reading
Energy Probe’s Sept 1997 Submission to US Dept. of Energy
(August 17, 1997) I am writing on behalf of Energy Probe concerning the “Parallex Project”, which involves the fabrication of weapons-grade plutonium into reactor fuel (“MOX”) at Los Alamos, and transport of said fuel to Chalk River, Ontario, for testing in an experimental reactor. We understand that the “test burn” is a precursor for the possible eventual large-scale importation of plutonium MOX fuel for use in CANDU nuclear reactors over a period of two or three decades. In particular, we refer to the preliminary Environmental Assessment prepared by the U.S. Department of Energy on the Parallex Project. Continue reading
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CANDU falls on hard times
(August 14, 1997) Problems have plagued Ontario’s nuclear program. CANDU, Canada’s much-touted nuclear power generator, has long been advertised as the best in the world. But it has falled on hard times in Ontario. Continue reading
Ottawa skips reactor advice
(August 11, 1997) Warnings about environmental impact ignored in Candu sale to China, documents show. The federal government ignored its own consultants’ warnings about the need for environmental studies when it signed a contract to sell nuclear reactors to China last November. Continue reading
Posted in Nuclear Economics, Nuclear Plant Security, Nuclear Power, Towards Shutdown
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Update on the Ontario select committee on Ontario Hydro nuclear affairs
(October 21, 1997) Energy Probe, a national environmental and consumer advocacy organization, presented its five recommendations to the Ontario Select Committee on Ontario Hydro Nuclear Affairs yesterday evening. Continue reading
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Energy Probe’s 1997 accomplishments
(May 23, 1997) On many fronts, 1997 was a watershed year for Energy Probe and Canada’s environment. Continue reading
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