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Local groups meet Rock, renew AECB briefs
(December 16, 1999) Port Hope’s Environmental Advisory Committee and Community Health Concerns Committee will make renewed submissions to the Atomic Energy Control Board in Ottawa today at the board’s second meeting to consider relicensing of Cameco’s Port Hope uranium conversion plant. Representatives of the Community Health Concerns Committee also met Health Minister Allan Rock yesterday to discuss a proposed health study of Port Hope residents. Continue reading
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Energy Probe position paper
(December 2, 1999) Following are Energy Probe’s comments on AECB’s draft “Scope of Assessment” for the Pickering NGS-A return to service Environmental Assessment. As always, we would appreciate receiving reasons for AECB’s decisions to accept or reject these recommendations. And we await the opportunity to be involved in the substantive issues of this Assessment. We divide our comments into two general categories: Process Concerns and Substantive Concerns. Continue reading
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Port Hope – Energy Probe’s Written Submission to the Atomic Energy Control Board
(November 25, 1999) Energy Probe is the oldest project of Energy Probe Research Foundation, one of Canada’s largest environmental organizations, with over 20,000 supporters. Energy Probe has long been involved in nuclear matters and in the affairs of the Atomic Energy Control Board, including numerous written submissions and several appearances before the Board. Continue reading
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Brightening New Brunswick’s electricity future
(September 6, 1999) After years of political avoidance, New Brunswick’s fresh new provincial government, now less than three months old, has the best opportunity ever to fundamentally correct the problems that afflict its crown- owned utility, NB Power. The appointment of NB Power’s leading critic, UNB professor of business Norman Betts, as Premier Bernard Lord’s new Finance Minister signals that major new thinking will be brought to bear. Continue reading
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Premier says NB Power not for sale
(February 25, 1999) Fredericton (CP) — Premier Camille Theriault says New Brunswick will hang on to its debt-ridden power utility despite the fact its future is still under study and a growing body of opinion that at least part should be sold. Continue reading
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NB Power jobs on the line
(November 18, 1998) Fredericton – Jobs losses are imminent whether New Brunswick overhauls NB Power or not – it is just a question of who will be left unemployed. Continue reading
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NB coal is worse
(November 13, 1998) Fred McMahon’s overwhelming economic and environmental arguments (Time to pay off the miners in Cape Breton, Nov. 10) to eliminate subsidies sustaining the coal industry in Cape Breton apply with equal force to the coal industry in New Brunswick. Continue reading
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NB Power’s dilemma
(November 11, 1998) Fredericton – NB Power can’t move further into the North American energy market until the provincial government sets the rules for deregulating the industry in New Brunswick, say executives at the provincially owned utility. Continue reading
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Letter to the editor sent to New Brunswick newspapers
(October 26, 1998) New Brunswick’s big decision on the best methods to bring natural gas to energy users in the province provides an historic opportunity to benefit consumers and the environment. Natural gas distribution systems should be expanded in the province as rapidly as possible, consistent with maintaining the profitability of all investments. Continue reading
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Report fingers declining safety
(August 14, 1998) Despite criticism, plant remains fundamentally sound with low exposure risk. Although no nuclear power station in Canada suffered any serious breach of safety last year, Point Lepreau was singled out for greater criticism. Continue reading
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