For Immediate Release:
January 28, 2008, Moncton, New Brunswick
By Willi Nolan, IICPH-NB Project Manager
A Nuclear Violation of Public Trust
Public Health Institute Calls for Enhanced Public Safety
The International Institute of Concern for Public Health (IICPH) believes that a violation of public trust occurred when Parliament overrode the decision of the president of the Canadian Nuclear Safety
Commission (CNSC), [...]
Janice Harvey
January 23, 2008
Prime Minister Stephen Harper has fired Linda Keen as president and CEO of the Canadian Nuclear Safety Commission. Notice of her dismissal was delivered the evening before she was to testify before a House of
Commons committee on the medical isotopes affair. Her offense, it appears, was that she took her job to [...]
Beth McLaughlin
January 21, 2008
The firing of Linda Keen, President of the Nuclear Safety Commission, should give us pause to ask “why?”
What is going on behind the scenes that the head of the monitoring and safety issues in the nuclear industry is kicked out?
We know the President of Atomic Energy Canada Ltd, (AECL) quit a month [...]
Conservation Council of New Brunswick
1. “Exploration crews searching for uranium will receive radiation exposure from uranium and its associated radioactive decay products in the drill core and cuttings.” (Radiation Protection Guidelines for Uranium Exploration. Saskatchewan Labour Department, Occupational Health and Safety Division: http://www.labour.gov.sk.ca/safety)
2. “Whether or not [uranium] mining is conducted in open pits or [...]
According to its Constitution, the World Health Organization is “the directing and coordinating authority on international health issues.” This is unfortunately not true in the area of radiation and health. WHO is unable to fulfill its constitutional mandate in the critically important area of radiation and health because of the 1959 [...]
Janice Harvey
January 16th, 2008
Prime Minister Harper has largely succeeded in averting public scrutiny of Atomic Energy of Canada Ltd. (AECL) in the medical isotope affair. By blaming the chair of the Canadian Nuclear Safety Commission (CNSC), the arms-length nuclear regulatory body, for the shortage of medical isotopes after it shut down [...]
Sam Arnold
January 8th, 2008
A recent letter to the editor about electric heat was wrong on at least two assertions.
The writer argues that electric heat is getting a bad rap and that nuclear power does not produce greenhouse gases.
Electric heat is the least efficient form of heating and is responsible for keeping the [...]
Julie Michaud
January 8, 2008
On Jan. 4, Barbara Scott disputed David Coon’s assertion electric heat is bad for the environment.
She explained 60 per cent of our generated power comes from nuclear and hydro which “do not produce greenhouse gases.” That nuclear energy is being so effectively promoted as clean and safe that even the
public buys the [...]
