Nuclear Industry (2557 articles) Currently, there are four nuclear power generation sites in the Lake Ontario watershed: Bruce Nuclear (on Lake Huron), Pickering, Darlington, and Oswego. There are also a number of manufacturing facilities associated with the nuclear industry, including Cameco in Port Hope and GE in Peterborough. Contaminated wastewater, air emissions, releases of hot cooling water, intake pipes, and waste all affect Lake Ontario’s natural environment.
|  | Timothy Chipp in the Niagara Gazette writes about a NY State radioactive waste site on November 12, 2011:
The LOOW site was established after the federal government seized 7,200 acres of land in 1941, in the area now occupied partially by the Lewiston-Porter School District, for the purposes of creating the explosive trinitrotoluene (TNT). Production lasted only nine months in... (more) | | Drink Environmental Law New York State Nuclear Industry Waste Management |
| | | Mr. François Lapointe (Montmagny—L'Islet—Kamouraska—Rivière-du-Loup, NDP):Mr. Speaker, yesterday, the government quietly revealed that it will spend more than $800 million on AECL this year alone.Many people may say that massive overspending on the nuclear crown corporation is par for the course for the government, but what is different this time is that it has... (more) | | Canada Energy & Fossil Fuels Environmental Law Nuclear Industry Other |
|  | BY EMAILCaroline Ducros, Environmental Assessment Specialist
Canadian Nuclear Safety Commission
280 Slater Street, P.O. Box 1046, Station B
Ottawa, ON K1P 5S9
Email: caroline.ducros@cnsc-ccsn.gc.caCC: Aldo E. D’Agostino, Project Manager, Vision 2010
Cameco Corporation, Fuel Services Division
1 Eldorado Place, Port Hope, ON L1A 3A1
Email:... (more) | | Energy & Fossil Fuels Fish Nuclear Industry Port Hope, Cobourg, and Region Research |
| | | A system used by 1,769 health care and research workers to measure their workplace radiation exposure may have under-reported radiation levels since 2008, says the Canadian Nuclear Safety Commission.The commission says a “calculation error” in the management system used by the devices is responsible for the low readings.The errors led to potential under-reporting of... (more) | | About Waterkeeper Canada Drink Energy & Fossil Fuels Environmental Law Fish Nuclear Industry |
|  | BY EMAILThe Honourable Joe Oliver
Minister of Natural Resources
House of Commons
Ottawa, ON K1A 0A6
Email: joe.oliver@parl.gc.caOctober 12, 2011Dear Minister Oliver:Re: Press Release, “Minister Oliver Announces New Chair and CEO of Atomic Energy of Canada Limited”We are writing to correct a serious error in a recent statement made via press... (more) | | Canada Drink Nuclear Industry |
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