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Category Archives: Towards Shutdown
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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Statement by Bill Blaikie in the House of Commons
(November 26, 1996) Statement by Bill Blaikie in the House of Commons November 26, 1996 re: CANDU sale to China. CANDU REACTOR November 26, 1996. Continue reading
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CANDU export to China imminent
(November 11, 1996) The Campaign for Nuclear Phaseout (CNP) is expecting the Chrétien government to announce the conclusion of the sale of two CANDU reactors to China at the end of this month. Continue reading
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CANDU exports study to be released
(November 4, 1996) Document critical of imminent CANDU export deal to China. Ottawa ~ The Campaign for Nuclear Phaseout (CNP) will release a new study entitled “Exporting Disaster: The Cost of Selling CANDU Reactors” at a news conference on November 6, 1996. The news conference will be held at 10:00 AM in the Charles Lynch Press Conference Room (130S Centre Block, House of Commons, Ottawa). Continue reading
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Decision on access to documents
(May 1, 1992) Application for the production of federal cabinet and interprovincial cabinet documents in a challenge of the Nuclear Liability Act. Continue reading
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Decision on access to documents
(May 1, 1992) Indexed as Energy Probe v. Canada (Attorney General) Continue reading
Nuclear act loopholes under fire
(June 4, 1989) It’s a nuclear nightmare not even the staunchest critics of atomic power like to visualize: radioactivity spewing from a molten reactor core into the atmosphere, the soil, the water supply, the food we eat and the air we breathe. Continue reading
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Path cleared for test of nuclear liability law
(April 14, 1989) The Ontario Court of Appeal cleared the way yesterday for a constitutional challenge of a federal law that limits the liability of Canada’s nuclear power utilities in the event of a major accident. Continue reading
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Act limiting nuclear liability heads for home strait
(March 31, 1988) Washington – The Price-Anderson Act, the law that defines industry liability in the event of a nuclear power plant accident, is lurching towards renewal in Congress. Attempts to revive it before it expired last summer failed, as did those shortly afterwards. But now the Senate has passed and will shortly send to the House of Representatives its version of the new legislation, and observers from industry, environmental groups and congressional staff agree that final passage appears inevitable. Continue reading
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Limit on nuclear liability law challenged
(August 7, 1985) If a nuclear disaster similar to Chernobyl happened in Canada, the nuclear industry would pay only a fraction of the cost of the damage to people, homes and property because it is protected by a federal law, documents filed in the Supreme Court of Ontario say. Continue reading
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