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Over 250 Canadian towns say no to nuclear power

Ontario is backing off nuclear power generation of the Canadian-developed CANDU variety, ….. Quebec has a golden opportunity to follow that example.

No to nuclear power, towns say, By Jan Ravensbergen, Montreal Gazette September 10, 2010, MONTREAL – More than 250 Quebec municipalities and regional municipal governments have banded together to demand the province shut the door once and for all on nuclear energy – by mothballing Hydro-Quebec’s Gentilly-2 nuclear reactor instead of rebuilding it.Copies of a resolution thus far adopted by 255 municipal bodies were presented to three opposition members of the Quebec National Assembly Friday by Mayor Gaëtan Ruest of Amqui, who has been spearheading a campaign launched in spring 2009……..

“Don’t want their dirty energy? Neither do we!” declared a flyer inviting participation, carrying among many group names that included a Quebec citizen coalition actively opposing shale-gas activities, Nature Quebec, Greenpeace and a range of other environmental groups.

Public-opinion polls show almost two-thirds of Quebecers are opposed to a plan by Hydro-Québec to rebuild Gentilly-2, said Michel Duguay, a nuclear physicist at l’Université Laval who coordinates the Mouvement Sortir le Québec du Nucléaire. The umbrella group that speaks to the issue on behalf of some 85 environmental groups.

Ontario is backing off nuclear power generation of the Canadian-developed CANDU variety, Duguay said, adding that Quebec has a golden opportunity to follow that example.

No to nuclear power, towns say

September 10, 2010 - Posted by Christina Macpherson | Canada, opposition to nuclear | antinuclear, nuclear, nuclear costs, nuclear spin, reactors