Uranium Mining and Exploration

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Greenpeace call for phase out of nuclear power

This opposition and the poll results mentioned in the last paragraph are reassuring to me and demonstrates there’s still much upside in the uranium sector. In any event, as Alexander Downer was quoted as saying in message 1277 that was posted a few days ago: “Frankly though, from the view of logic, one could comprehend someone not caring about cutting greenhouse gases and being opposed to nuclear energy, but it takes quite a challenge of the intellectual imagination to say you're concerned about greenhouse gases and you're opposed to nuclear energy.”

Greenpeace call for phase out of nuclear power Shut Down Gentilly-2 Reactor

TROIS RIVIERES, Sept. 5 /CNW Telbec/ - Activists from the Greenpeace ship Arctic Sunrise, accompanied by local supporters in a flotilla of small boats, placed a banner at Quebec's only nuclear plant, Gentilly-2. Despite strong opposition to nuclear power in Quebec, Hydro Quebec wants to rebuild the 23-year old CANDU reactor at a cost of $1.2 to $2.3 billion, instead of replacing it with green energy. Greenpeace is calling for it to be shut down in 2010. "During the last election Jean Charest said that the Quebec Liberal Party was against nuclear power. It's time for the government to deliver on that promise." said Greenpeace Climate Campaigner Steven Guilbeault. "The shutdown
of Gentilly-2 would make Quebec a world leader in sustainable energy."

Greenpeace activists in inflatable boats from the Arctic Sunrise came to the St. Lawrence shoreline of the Hydro-Quebec reactor sit, with mock barrels of radioactive waste and placed a banner near the reactor building reading:
"Phase Out Nuclear Power - or our children will pay... and their children and their children, and their children, and their children, etc."

"There are already 2500 tonnes of high-level radioactive waste at Gentilly that will be toxic for a million years. Rebuilding the reactor would double Quebec's deadly legacy for future generations." said Shawn-Patrick Stensil, Greenpeace Energy Campaigner Greenpeace, along with other Quebec groups, is calling for Premier Jean Charest to permanently shut down Gentilly-2 in 2010, and minimally order an environmental assessment of nuclear hazards and energy alternatives by the
Bureau d'audiences publiques sur l'environnement (BAPE). "Quebec has no need for nuclear power, and should free itself from the risk of nuclear meltdown. Green energy is cleaner, safer and cheaper. " said Michel Fugere of Mouvement Vert Mauricie.

According to a poll commissioned by Greenpeace in 2004, nuclear power is supported by less than 10% of Quebecers. Hydro-Quebec has admitted that Gentilly-2 cannot be operated safely beyond 2010. The reactor began commercial operation in October 1983, and is located on the south shore of the St. Lawrence River, about 5 km east of Becancour and about 10 km east of east of Trois Rivieres. It produces only about 3% of Quebec's electricity.

http://www.newswire.ca/en/releases/archive/September2005/05/c6065.html