Category Archives: Energy Probe News

Nuclear reactions

Posted on March 29, 2002 by energyprbe

(March 29, 2002) I read with dissapointment and concern Tom Adams’ lopsided attack on Canada’s nuclear industry (Last Call for AECL Subsidies, March 20). Disappointment because of the lack of balance in the article. Concern because these sentiments had misguidedly been connected to me. Continue reading →

Last call for AECL subsidies

Posted on March 20, 2002 by energyprbe

(March 20, 2002) Should Canada continue to bankroll that perennial money loser, Atomic Energy of Canada Limited’s nuclear reactor sales program? Herb Dhaliwal, the new federal Minister of Natural Resources, will soon be putting that question before the federal Cabinet, along with two reviews designed to inform their opinion. Continue reading →

Ontario Hydro Meltdown

Posted on August 25, 1997 by energyprbe

(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 →

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CANDU Flawed

Posted on August 25, 1997 by energyprbe

(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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CANDU Reactor Deal Controversy

Posted on December 9, 1996 by energyprbe

(December 9, 1996) Call it the Great Mall of China. Two years ago, Prime Minister Jean CHRÉTIEN led nine premiers and more than 400 business people on a mission to vastly expand trade with the world’s most populous market. The results of the “Team Canada” trip have been impressive: nearly $9 billion worth of confirmed deals involving Canadian banks, financial and legal services, and manufacturing ventures. Yet trade with what is also the world’s largest totalitarian state is never free of controversy. Continue reading →

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