DAVID COON, Executive Director, Conservation Council
The Telegraph-Journal’s editorial, “Get tough with AECL,” places all the blame for the Point Lepreau refurbishment fiasco on AECL, but they forget our history.
The delays and cost overruns are the kinds of risks that led New Brunswick’s Public Utilities Board to conclude that the refurbishment was not in the public [...]
AECL shouldn’t take all Lepreau’s blame
Les Médecins ou le nucléaire?
Sept-Îles sans URANIUM
Sept-Îles, le 4 décembre 2009 — Sept-Îles Sans Uranium appuie les médecins qui avisent le ministre de la Santé, M. Yves Bolduc, et, ce faisant, le gouvernement du Québec qu’ils se voient obligés de quitter la région puisque l’activité minière uranifère continue malgré tous les dangers de la radioactivité.
Nuclear Liability
Parliament’s Natural Resources Committee is currently reviewing the Harper government’s proposed Nuclear Liability and Compensation Act (NLCA), which would relieve the nuclear industry from paying for the damages caused by an accident or terrorist attack at a nuclear station in Canada.
The NLCA requires reactor operators to carry only $650 million in insurance for Chernobyl type [...]
