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What are the benefits from it, except for short term gain maybe.It's a well known fact that anywhere there has been a nuclear plant, there has been four times the expected number of brain cancer in children. I mean we already live in the backyard of Alberta's wasteland," said [Rose Laboucan].
"We believe that even though it is an arduous process, and obviously there are many risks along the way to getting the license and to getting the plant built, if we can get it built, we believe that because it's going to produce electricity, we believe that the cost of electricity, 10 years down the road when the plant turns on, the need for it will be such that we will start to realize a return on that investment very quickly," said [Guy Hungtingford]. "The word nuclear is one that scares many pe...
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Can municipalities insist that local industries obtain municipal air permits, in addition to those issued by the province?
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We're going to go see for ourselves," he said, adding they are prepared to approach the matter with an open mind. "We'd like to bring out more people, and do breakout sessions - involve the senate and program directors, too.
"We just want to know what it's all about, and show possibilities for the future to our students and young people," he said. "The status quo doesn't work for us right now."
"This is such a big issue for all of us, it's important not to go behind everyone's back," said [Marcel Petit]. "I understand economic development - we have every right to search and find ways to make the reserve better - but when it comes to the nuclear energy issue, the whole band should be part of the discussion... The consequences are longer-term than we can imagine."
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They're trying to figure out who was on the job today and where are they now?" [Sebastian Giuliano] said.
[Al Santostefano] said workers for the construction company, O&G Industries, were purging the gas lines, a procedure he called a "blow-down," when the explosion occurred.
"He really couldn't say what happened to him," she said. "He was in a lot of pain and they got him into surgery as quickly as possible.
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A five-year-old plan to convert the coal-burning Thunder Bay Generating Station to natural gas has been dusted off and is being put into play.
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From our point of view, Pinawa is already a licensed site, there are already experienced people working there, abundant water nearby and it's close to the United States and transmission lines," said [Dale Coffin].
The Pinawa nuclear lab, established in the 1960s, was closed in 1998 and its research activities transferred to AECL's lab in Chalk River, Ont.
Manitoba Hydro president Bob Brennan said the Crown corporation isn't interested in building a nuclear generator because it has enough capital projects in the works with hydro-electric dams. But he said that doesn't mean Hydro would not be interested in helping use its grid to transmit power generated by a nuclear station if someone else built it.
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News - Weyerhaeuser power plant in Sturgeon Falls - Brief Article
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All cancer victims know for sure is that short-sighted politics (including earlier Liberal governments) and nuclear power plant incompetence have conspired to leave thousands of fellow sufferers waiting for isotope treatments with tens of thousands more likely to endure long delays or less-effective alternatives in the months to come if the Chalk River power plant doesn't come back on line. (Raitt yesterday offered an emotional apology at a hastily arranged news conference in Ottawa.) After all, Transport Minister John Baird sought forgiveness in the House of Commons for unleashing a profane four-letter blast at Toronto politicians whining about the slow flow of his stimulus funding.
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Special Report: Fort Frances Rainy River