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Category Archives: Towards Shutdown
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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Candu ‘owners’ club’ to fold
(July 31, 1998) TORONTO — An exclusive organization that promotes Candu nuclear reactors abroad and provides safety and technical advice to the people who run them is being dismantled. Continue reading
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Documents show federal role in Candu sales
(June 11, 1998) Lawsuit contends government dodged environmental rules on China contracts. Continue reading
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No wrongdoing in sale of reactors, says minister
(June 9, 1998) Candu deals in China, South Asia under attack in Commons. Federal government ministers rejected allegations yesterday of wrongdoing in nuclear reactor sales to China and of Canadian complicity in the militarization of nuclear capability in India and Pakistan. Continue reading
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Cabinet rubber-stamped nuclear deal
(June 8, 1998) How Martin, Eggleton signed $1.5-billion China loan guarantee without review of contract. Finance Minister Paul Martin signed a $1.5-billion federal loan guarantee for a Candu reactor sale to China without him or his department reviewing the export contract or financing agreements. Continue reading
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Information-czar candidate under attack: Ex-MP once worked for nuclear association
(June 4, 1998) John Reid, a former Liberal cabinet minister, will be interviewed by a panel of MPs today for the job of federal information commissioner. 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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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
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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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