Closing The Barn Door

Published: August 31, 2007, 8:57 am

Tags: environment, energy probe, ed stelmach, alberta, tarsands, peak oil, nuclear

Alberta premier promises public input on nuclear plantSure but the Nuke Alberta gang has already has announced that it has a site. Calgary-based Energy Alberta revealed plans for what could become the province's first nuclear power plant yesterday but remained tight-lipped on a consumer who would use the majority of its energy. Energy Alberta announced it has filed an application with the Canadian Nuclear Safety Commission for a license to own and operate a nuclear power plant 30 km west of Peace River. Public transparency about this company and its links to the Government would go along way to really revealing whose pushing this.And that is not something we will get from this government regardless of 'public hearings'.An upstart Alberta firm with no experience in nuclear energy has taken its first official step to build the province's first nuclear power plant, saying yesterday that it has the backing of a large but unnamed company working in the province.The provincial government is

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