News release from Canadian Coalition for Nuclear Responsibility March 31 2011Three Mile Island taught us all that nuclear power is inherently dangerous.  With Chernobyl the whole world witnessed the awesome power of a total nuclear meltdown.  At Fukushima we are seeing simultaneous partial meltdowns ...

AWARE Simcoe March 28 2011 Radiation from the Yukushima disaster has been detected in British Columbia and in 13 U.S. states, including Massachussets. The trace levels present no immediate danger, experts tell the media. Here’s an alternative view. Other sources: Nukefree.org    Beyond Nuclear ...

Japan’s earthquake caused a nuclear crisis which could be repeated in other countries if precautions aren’t taken By Stephen Leahy IPS News 23 Mar 2011 As Japan struggles to confront a nuclear disaster that could be the worst in history, it seems clear that any discussion about the safety...

'This hearing is not good decision-making' By Krystyn Tully Lake Ontario Waterkeeper Weekly March 23 2010I am a child of the Durham Region nuclear family. I was born and raised and schooled in Oshawa, smack-dab in the middle of the Pickering and Darlington nuclear power plants. My friends’ parents wo...

Plus details of hearing times, locationNews release Northwatch March 21 2011The federal hearing on the proposal by Ontario Power Generation to build up to four new reactors of yet-to-be-specified design gets underway today, Monday, March 21st. ...

Gordon Edwards, president of the Canadian Coalition for Nuclear Responsibility, answers questions about the disaster in Japan. CTV...

Letter from Cindy Hillard  to the Orillia Packet and Times March 16 2011Our government conveniently uses the term solar "farm" to give landowners the false impression that they are actually continuing to be farmers.  Once a land owner signs a contract for a large scale solar "farm" (ie. 60 acres or m...

News release from Lake Ontario Waterkeeper March 16 2011The first new nuclear power plant to be built in Canada in decades is slated for review beginningnext Monday.Lake Ontario Waterkeeper, other NGOs, members of the nuclear industry, and governmentdepartments have been preparing for the hearing for...

By SCOTT DUNN, QMI AGENCY March 11 2011  A judges’ panel that heard a legal challenge to Ontario’s minimum 550- metre wind turbine tower buffer requirement said Thursday that the Ministry of the Environment followed the rules in setting it. Read more...

Nukefree.org    Beyond Nuclear    Union of Concerned Scientists (link updated March 13) World Nuclear News (nuclear industry) ...