2018-03-18 Environment minister Catherine McKenna on contradiction at heart of Canada’s energy policy, CBC Sunday Edition

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Mar 192018
 
2018-03-18 Environment minister Catherine McKenna on contradiction at heart of Canada's energy policy, CBC Sunday Edition

http://www.cbc.ca/radio/thesundayedition/the-sunday-edition-march-18-2018-1.4579165/environment-minister-catherine-mckenna-on-the-contradiction-at-the-heart-of-canada-s-energy-policy-1.4579184 Minister of Environment and Climate Change Catherine McKenna says the Kinder Morgan pipeline can be part of the transition from fossil fuels to a low-carbon economy. (Justin Tang/Canadian Press)   Oil pipelines have been touted as nation-building projects in Canada, a term that evokes bold feats of nation-spanning infrastructure, such as the Canadian Pacific […]

2017-08-17 Cameco wins PROCEDURAL victory, offshore ‘transfer pricing’ tax battle (avoided declaring $4.9 billion income), (doesn’t mean they’ve won the case) Financial Post

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Mar 172018
 
2017-08-17 Cameco wins PROCEDURAL victory, offshore 'transfer pricing' tax battle (avoided declaring $4.9 billion income), (doesn't mean they've won the case) Financial Post

Just checking the progress of the CRA (Revenue Canada) case against Cameco. Related:   2013-05-01   Cameco’s $800-million tax battle, Globe & Mail The uranium producer estimates it has avoided declaring $4.9-billion in Canadian income, saving it $1.4-billion in taxes, over the last 10 years. Cameco has blocked the government’s attempt to force 25 of the company’s […]

2018-02-21 House of Commons electronic petition (on nuke waste) — people with Canadian addresses only, please!

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Feb 212018
 

Thanks to Janet M: Easy petition to sign electronically! Petition to the Government of Canada Whereas: The federal government “owns” over 2 million cubic meters of radioactive waste, none of which is securely contained in long-term management facilities; A consortium of five multinational corporations has been contracted to operate all federal nuclear sites where this […]

2018-01-18 ‘Insanity’ to allow nuclear waste storage near Ottawa River, Indigenous groups say CBC News

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Jan 182018
 
2018-01-18 'Insanity' to allow nuclear waste storage near Ottawa River, Indigenous groups say CBC News

  Canadian Nuclear Laboratories facility in Chalk River, Ontario, could be up and running in 2020 Julie Ireton http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/ottawa/chalk-river-nuclear-waste-indigenous-1.4492937  (There’s a 41 second video clip at the URL) Indigenous groups don’t want permanent nuclear waste site near river Indigenous groups say a plan to store nuclear waste near the Ottawa River in eastern Ontario is “insanity” and want […]

2017-12-04 Nuclear: submission to CNSC re re-licensing of the Chalk River Laboratories. Deadline December 11.

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Dec 042017
 

Information and Action Request follows:   MY SUBMISSION TO:   Canadian Nuclear Safety Commission (CNSC)     cnsc.interventions.ccsn@canada.ca FROM:  Sandra Finley   RE:   re-licensing of Chalk River Laboratories   AECL, a crown corporation, owns the nuclear operations at Chalk River. CNL (Canadian Nuclear Laboratories) is a corporate, private sector, international conglomerate, set up to run the affairs of […]

2017-11-24 Earthquake Risk Keeps Heat on Vulnerable Nuclear Reactors, truthdig, by Harvey Wasserman

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Nov 252017
 
2017-11-24 Earthquake Risk Keeps Heat on Vulnerable Nuclear Reactors, truthdig, by Harvey Wasserman

  Canadians defeated nuclear reactors in Alberta, then in Saskatchewan, in this new century.  Economic arguments easily won the day – citizens were horrified when they understood how much they would be paying for a kilowatt of electricity.  And you pay forever (radioactive waste is still unresolved after more than half a century). Some people […]

2017-07-26 Background Paper: The Harm Caused by Radioactivity (Gordon Edwards)

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Jul 302017
 

From Dr. Gordon Edwards,   Dear Friends and Colleagues:   The site of the Chalk River Nuclear Laboratories and the nearby Canadian military base, Camp Petawawa, are situated on the traditional territory of the Algonquins of Pikwakanagan. The management of Chalk River Laboratories is now in the hands of a consortium of profit-oriented multinational corporations […]

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