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Ontario company’s green ads promote nuclear power in Alberta

Environmental groups think ‘that it’s extremely misleading’

CBC News.ca March 16, 2009

Ontario-based Bruce Power has erected billboards in four Alberta communities positioning itself as a provider of green energy, as it prepares to launch its latest proposal for a nuclear power plant in the northern part of Alberta.

“Exploring opportunities for growth in Alberta,” the billboards read. “Next generation nuclear. Hydrogen. Wind. Solar.”

The billboards are up in Edmonton, Calgary and Grande Prairie, and one will soon be in Peace River, the closest town to the proposed location.

……………………. Environmental groups believe the company is adding more favourable energy sources like solar, wind and hydrogen to make the nuclear proposal more accceptable.

“We think that it’s extremely misleading,” said Brenda Brochu, president of the Peace River Environmental Society. “They’re trying to portray themselves as green when, in fact, they really aren’t and we’ll be stuck with radioactive waste for hundreds of thousands of years.”

http://www.cbc.ca/canada/edmonton/story/2009/03/16/edm-bruce-power-billobards.html

March 17, 2009 - Posted by Christina Macpherson | Canada, spinbuster