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Jul 11th, 2011
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By MORGAN IAN ADAMS Barrie Examiner July 10 2011 COLLINGWOOD — Airplanes and windmills don’t mix. Read more ...
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Jul 3rd, 2011
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The Associated Press Jul 3, 2011 An ExxonMobil pipeline that runs under the Yellowstone River in Montana ruptured Saturday and leaked hundreds of barrels of oil into the waterway, causing a 40-kilometre plume that fouled the riverbank and forced municipalities and irrigation districts downstream to c...
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Jun 15th, 2011
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By San Grewal Toronto Star June 12 2011 Months after the province cancelled a gas-fired power plant planned for Oakville, residents of Mississauga and Etobicoke are wondering why they’re still stuck with a similar project in their backyard. Some are vowing to make it an election issue. A building per...
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Jun 1st, 2011
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Nuclear power: Should Canada follow Germany’s lead? CBC May 30 2011  Scroll down and vote Germany will shut down all of the country’s nuclear reactors by 2022, according to a plan adopted early Monday.  Read more...
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May 31st, 2011
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Learning From Japan’s Nuclear Disaster by Amory B. Lovins Rocky Mountain Institute March 18, 2011 As heroic workers and soldiers strive to save stricken Japan from a new horror—radioactive fallout—some truths known for 40 years bear repeating. An earthquake-and-tsunami zone crowded with 127 mil...
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May 18th, 2011
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'Stop the plan in order to protect our Great Lakes Commons'News release from Council of Canadians May 16 2011The Council of Canadians is warning of the risks from a proposed nuclear waste repository on Lake Huron. The Ontario Power Generation (OPG) has submitted a proposal for a deep geologic disposa...
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May 18th, 2011
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Chernobyl material will be dangerously radioactive for thousands of years By Stephen Leahy IPS May 6 2011 The nuclear energy industry only exists thanks to what insurance experts call the “mother of all subsidies”, and the public is largely unaware that every nuclear power plant in the wo...
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May 15th, 2011
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Natural Resources Minister Linda Jeffrey looking for “balance” By Mike Crawley, CBC News May 13, 20 A Toronto-based wind power company is proposing to build a green energy project on the shores of Lake Ontario, but it could threaten two endangered species. Gilead Resources would have the ...
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Apr 16th, 2011
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Pour Evian on your radishes by Albert Bates Energy Bulletin April 14 2011 GE’s Japanese Nuclear Disaster is like the BP Gulf Oil Spill of 2010, a slow-moving monster, chewing up rich, diverse, biological ecosystems and leaving a toxic cancer on the landscape that will fester for decades, if not...
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Apr 5th, 2011
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Toronto Star March 31 3011 Port Hope is back in the spotlight. The town’s nuclear past is its legacy and its curse. Eldorado Nuclear Ltd., which refined radium used for treating cancer, and uranium that helped the Manhattan Project develop the first atomic bombs, provided employment to hundreds...