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Sable Island Gas: New Brunswick’s Historic Energy Reform Opportunity
(June 9, 1998) New Brunswick has a brief but unprecedented opportunity to redirect its energy industry on a path away from monopolies and damaging megaprojects toward competition and environmental responsibility. Continue reading
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Proposal for a competitive electricity future: Energy Probe submits plan to NB Electricity Taskforce
(June 4, 1998) In a report submitted last week to the NB Electricity Taskforce, enquiring into the province’s energy future, Energy Probe outlined a path toward customer choice of electricity supplier, environmental and economic reregulation of the sector, break-up and privatization of NB Power, and a non-nuclear future for the province. Continue reading
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A competitive electricity future for New Brunswick
(May 26, 1998) The Taskforce should recommend that the provincial government not provide any further loan guarantees for NB Power and should treat existing obligations as preferred to new liabilities, as if the existing obligations were a first mortgage and new obligations were a second mortgage. Continue reading
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Northern pipeline a sure thing if gas-fired power plant is built
(April 22, 1998) Saint John – The company building the Sable Island pipeline says a lateral line to Northern New Brunswick will likely happen if NB Power can hammer out an agreement with a Belgium-based power company that wants to build a power generation plant in Belledune. Continue reading
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Feds to probe nurses’ illness
(April 7, 1998) Atomic agency reacts to Hamilton concerns. Canada’s atomic energy regulator will determine if a high incidence of thyroid disease among nurses at the former Hamilton Civic Hospitals can be attributed to a radioactive drug they dispensed in the 1970s and ’80s. Continue reading
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Plant wearing out, says report
(February 20, 1998) Point Lepreau is going to be a huge drain on the finances of NB Power into the next century, warns a provincial report. Continue reading
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Safety attitude at nuclear plant comes under fire
(January 21, 1998) Watchful Eye: Incidents at the Lepreau are becoming all too common for the Atomic Energy Control Board, which warns that the quality of work must improve. Continue reading
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NB Power president refuses to debate environmentalist on future of nuclear power in New Brunswick
(June 30, 1997) NB Power refused today to provide a company representative to appear on the CBC television program “Focal Point” to debate the future of the province’s nuclear program with Thomas Adams, Executive Director of the national environmental and consumer watchdog Energy Probe. Continue reading
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Lepreau’s Lament
(June 20, 1997) Can NB Power count on its aging nuclear plant for power well into the future? The utility thinks so, but a spokesman for a watchdog agency has doubts: Continue reading
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What’s acceptable to nuclear industry shouldn’t be to us
(June 9, 1997) As in most of his writing, and on his Web page, Jeremy Whitlock’s letter (June 4) is a mixed bag: a handful of quasi-religious nuclear-industry “perspective” and a pinch of downright falsehood. Continue reading
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