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Enriched uranium to USA – Canada joins the move

Canada to Transfer Enriched Uranium to U.S. ABC News , April 12, 2010 As President Obama’s Nuclear Security Summit kicked off Monday, Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper announced that his government had agreed to return to the United States highly enriched uranium from the nuclear reactor at the Chalk River Laboratories in Ontario. Canada to Transfer Enriched Uranium to U.S. – Political Punch

April 14, 2010 Posted by Christina Macpherson | business and costs, Canada | antinuclear, enriched, nuclear, nuclear costs, uranium | Leave a comment

Renewable energy gets big boost in Ontario

Ontario Issues $8 Billion in Renewable Energy Contracts – Green Inc. Blog – NYTimes.com April 9, 2010, By JOHN LORIN An Ontario government agency yesterday announced $8 billion in new renewable energy deals under the province’s bulked up feed-in tariff program, with 184 wind, solar, hydro and landfill gas projects winning long-term contracts to provide a total of about 2,500 megawatts of green power…..

Ontario Issues $8 Billion in Renewable Energy Contracts – Green Inc. Blog – NYTimes.com

April 10, 2010 Posted by Christina Macpherson | Canada, renewable | energy efficiency, renewable energy, renewables, solar, wind | Leave a comment

How the war industry contributes to global warming, and not to humanity

“Lockheed Martin has 21 paid lobbyists on Parliament Hill,” “and none from environment, women or peace groups, which can’t afford it.”

War on Earth, THE COAST, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada, Against the people’s wishes, governments and the war industry choose destruction over protection.by Chris Benjamin, 25 March 2010,

If money talks, what does it say that Canada spends 12 times more on the Department of National Defence than it does on Environment Canada, and 120 times more on defence than it does on climate change mitigation? Continue reading →

March 27, 2010 Posted by Christina Macpherson | Canada, weapons and war | antinuclear, nuclear, nuclear costs, nuclear secrecy, nuclear spin, nuclear weapons | Leave a comment

Quebec government’s contempt for public opposition to uranium mining

(Canada) Quebec disregards petition, rejects call for uranium moratorium Media Co-op, Tim McSorley, 22 March 2010, Concerned residents of Sept-Iles are furious with the Quebec government today, calling the Minister of Natural Resources Serge Simard a liar after he announced there would be no moratorium on uranium exploration in the area. Simard was responding to a 14,000-signature peitition in support of the moratorium……. Continue reading →

March 23, 2010 Posted by Christina Macpherson | Canada, politics | antinuclear, radiation, radioactive, uranium | Leave a comment

Uranium One’s losses due to low uranium prices

Uranium One announces $36.5m net loss for full year 2009 , 11 Mar 2010,(Reuters) “….– Uranium One Inc (UUU.TO: Quote) posted a net loss in 2009, hurt mainly by lower realized uranium prices, ….Earnings from mine operations fell 41.2 percent to $54.6 million. The company said average realized sales prices fell 30 percent in 2009.

Shares of the Vancouver, British Columbia-based miner closed at C$2.81 Wednesday on the Toronto Stock Exchange. (Reporting by Abhiram Nandakumar in Bangalore; Editing by Maju Samuel)

March 13, 2010 Posted by Christina Macpherson | business and costs, Canada | nuclear, uranium | Leave a comment

First Uranium rescued by shareholders, from financial disaster

First Uranium shareholders provide capital lifeline Winnepedg Free Press, By: THE CANADIAN PRESS 12 March 2010, TORONTO – First Uranium Corp. (TSX:FIU) is getting a much-needed infusion of capital from a major shareholder and a new chief executive.The Toronto-based gold and uranium company had warned last month that its financial condition had been “severely compromised” by problems getting government environmental approval for a future storage site in South Africa.

First Uranium shareholders provide capital lifeline – Winnipeg Free Press

March 13, 2010 Posted by Christina Macpherson | business and costs, Canada | nuclear costs | Leave a comment

Groundwater threatened by uranium mining

“It’s a huge potential for contamination of groundwater.”

Uranium Mining In The Black Hills – Debra White Plume’s Response to ‘Clean Nuclear’ Republic of Lakotah, March 3, 2010 The planned uranium mine site in the southern Black Hills can impact four aquifers. Powertech, Inc. USA plans to begin uranium extraction in 2011 and operate for 15 years in the permit area of 10,580 acres located in Dewey and Burdock Counties, north of Edgemont, SD. Continue reading →

March 5, 2010 Posted by Christina Macpherson | Canada, environment, water | antinuclear, nuclear, nuclear costs, radiation, radioactive | 1 Comment

New uranium mine in Canada to avoid federal environmental assessment

Nunavut uranium proposal won’t undergo federal review, CBC News, 5 March 2010, A uranium mine being proposed in Nunavut will not be subject to a federal environmental assessment, but instead be reviewed by a territorial regulator. Continue reading →

March 5, 2010 Posted by Christina Macpherson | Canada, environment | antinuclear, nuclear, radiation, radioactive, uranium | Leave a comment

Biggest uranium miner downgraded due to failing uranium price

Cameco downgraded on weak uranium price Financial Post March 03, 2010, by Eric Lam Saskatchewan Even Cameco Corp., the biggest player in the uranium industry, cannot escape recent weaknesses in the mineral’s spot price.
Fraser Phillips, analyst with RBC Capital Markets, has downgraded Cameco Continue reading →

March 4, 2010 Posted by Christina Macpherson | business and costs, Canada | antinuclear, nuclear, nuclear costs, uranium | Leave a comment

Nuclear scientist missing in Canada

Police give up search for missing nuclear scientist thestar.com Adrian Morrow
On January 18, Lachlan Cranswick left the Chalk River nuclear reactor, where he worked, and took a bus to Deep River, the small town on the Ottawa River where he lived.

The 41-year-old physicist, whose job entailed running experiments for the National Research Council, had just finished some work for a researcher overseas…..Then, he vanished without a trace

Police give up search for missing nuclear scientist – thestar.com

February 20, 2010 Posted by Christina Macpherson | Canada, secrets,lies and civil liberties | nuclear, nuclear costs, nuclear secrecy | Leave a comment

Mass exposure of workers to nuclear radiation

The CNSC said the workers were exposed to alpha contamination, a dangerous form of radiation that, if breathed in or ingested, poses a risk of cancer.

(Canada) Nuclear watchdog investigates possible mass radiation exposure – The Globe and Mail Martin Mittelstaedt Feb. 16, 2010 As many as 217 workers involved in November incident at Ontario plant, according to filing from Nuclear Safety Commission Continue reading →

February 18, 2010 Posted by Christina Macpherson | Canada, safety | antinuclear, cancer, radiation, radioactive | Leave a comment

Uranium mining continues to damage indigenous communities

Déline is known as the “village of widows’ because most of the men who worked as labourers in the mines have died of some form of cancer.

The impacts of uranium mining on indigenous communities.-Peace, Earth and Justice News Heather Tufts February 13, 2010 – “….. Uranium mining speculation lacks comprehensive health and safety regulations while the ethics of Canadian exported uranium, which can lead to depleted uranium used in zones of war, needs greater scrutiny. Continue reading →

February 15, 2010 Posted by Christina Macpherson | Canada, indigenous issues | antinuclear, cancer, indigenous, nuclear, nuclear spin, radiation, radioactive, uranium, wastes | Leave a comment

Canadian govt sort of abandoning nuclear industry

Nuclear industry left hanging, Tim Hudak says Dalton McGuinty Liberals still debating whether to build another plant

Rob Ferguson Queen’s Park Bureau With files from Tanya Talaga thestar.com 10 Feb 2010
The McGuinty government is leaving Ontario’s nuclear industry “drifting in the wind” after handing foreign-based Samsung a $7 billion deal to develop green power, Progressive Conservative Leader Tim Hudak charges. Continue reading →

February 15, 2010 Posted by Christina Macpherson | Canada, politics | cancer, nuclear, nuclear secrecy, renewable energy, renewables | Leave a comment

Radiation from CT scans – a particular risk to children

Experts say an alarming number of scans are being given inappropriately, exposing children to potentially harmful radiation that could increase their chances of developing cancer.

Researchers tackle needless child CT scans, By Pauline Tam, The Ottawa CitizenFebruary 9, 2010 (from Canadian Association of Radiologists)

An Ottawa-led research team has developed a new “rule” to help emergency doctors pinpoint which children with concussions and other seemingly minor head traumas may actually have life-threatening brain injuries.

The rule is actually a set of guidelines that advises doctors when to order CT scans, which detect hidden injuries, but deliver big doses of radiation to patients. Continue reading →

February 12, 2010 Posted by Christina Macpherson | Canada, health | antinuclear, nuclear, radiation, radioactive | Leave a comment

“Nuclear Renaissance” just not happening

there have actually been very few new reactors started in recent years, and that nuclear energy as a percentage of global energy production has actually retreated since 2001.

NUCLEAR RENAISSANCE? Nuclear second coming could run out of steam – A Canadian think tank has challenged the idea that a nuclear renaissance is in full swing stating that new reactor construction is likely to be held back by a variety of issues : MineWeb Cameron French (Reuters) 05 Feb 2010TORONTO (Reuters) – Expectations of a sharp rise in nuclear generating capacity over the next two decades are likely overblown, a Canadian think tank said on Thursday, disputing conventional wisdom that a nuclear renaissance is in full swing. Continue reading →