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Passionate presentations made at Uranium public consultation in Swift Current

Passionate presentations made at Uranium public consultation in Swift  GEORGE BOWDITCHThe Southwest Booster11 June 09 – “………………..The mainly anti-uranium crowd in attendance left no doubt that they were opposed to the development of the Uranium in Saskatchewan. Tom Shelstad was very pleased that everyone had a chance to say what they wanted and the way the meeting was ran impressed him.

“I am very pleased with the format they had here. Everybody had a chance to say what they wanted to say and we got a wide variety of opinions and ideas. I am really impressed. It was a lot better than I expected.”

While Shelstad is opposed to the development of uranium, he did offer ideas on alternative options for energy in Saskatchewan.

“Energy conservation is an untapped area that we could really pursue. We have technologies now that we didn’t have before so we can make our machines run better and more efficient than ever before.

“Solar power, we have enough sunshine and wide open spaces here we could easily have solar farms here. There are a lot of rooftop in Saskatchewan and you could add solar panels to all of them and that would make quite a difference.”

“Nuclear power has been around since the second world war and we have had a lot of experience with it so now we know all the drawbacks and pitfalls with it. There are a lot of them. There are a lot of problems with nuclear power and not only that, economically it seems to be the most expensive form of power around so why would we pursue nuclear power if we have alternatives.”

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June 12, 2009 - Posted by Christina Macpherson | Uncategorized