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As a result, no further permission should be granted toward letting the project continue until the panel finishes its job, the groups ask. They’ve filed an application with federal court, seeking an order sending the issue back to the review panel. The panel filed a report in August, following several weeks of hearing last spring, allowing work on the reactors to proceed if certain conditions are met.

“The review of the environmental impacts of building new reactors at Darlington has ignored many of nuclear power’s risks and costs,” Shawn-Patrick Stensil of Greenpeace told a news conference Thursday.

“It has also ignored consideration of safer and cheaper alternatives.”

Greenpeace has joined in the application with Lake Ontario Waterkeeper, Northwatch and the Canadian Environmental Law Association.

The federal panel, headed by former New Brunswick cabinet minister Allan Graham, held its hearings shortly after the nuclear crisis erupted at Japan’s Fukushima reactor following an earthquake and tsunami.

Those events unlined the “catastrophic risks” inherent in nuclear energy, said Stensil.

Richard Lindgren of the environmental law association said that Ontario Power Generation, which will run the reactors, doesn’t know who they’ll hire to build them, or what technology they’ll use.

“How can you meaningfully evaluate the environmental impact when you don’t know what the reactor is going to be?” he asked….

http://www.thestar.com/business/article/1061954–court-asked-to-order-darlington-nuclear-review