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The report concludes that official attitudes on tritium are unscientific and incorrect, that tritium’s hazardous nature should be fully acknowledged by radiation protection agencies in Canada, and that tritium’s dose coefficient should be...
Energy [R]evolution is a groundbreaking report that shows how Canada can cut global warming pollution to the levels needed to prevent the worst effects of global warming while also meeting the energy needs of a growing world and phasing out...
We’re in court today to kill a nuclear zombie. Lawyers representing Greenpeace, Northwatch and Lake Ontario Waterkeeper will ask a federal judge to overturn federal approvals permitting Ontario Power Generation (OPG) to proceed...
Ontario Energy Minister Bob Chiarelli will release his government’s latest Long Term Energy Plan (LTEP) today. But this will be more than just an energy plan. With an election expected in the spring this LTEP will be a plank in...
This month we wrestle with knotty questions about our choice of nuclear vs renewable energy, a legalistic environmental word (it's a phrase, to be legal and accurate) of the month, and a word from our sponsor....one of our fabulous...
Greenpeace activists, green energy supporters and cyclists were out in force on Sunday to say “no” to nuclear energy and yes to conservation and green energy. The ‘Ride for Renewables’ rode from the Pickering nuclear station to...
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The head of the United Nations has called on Greenpeace to mobilize the public in order to press politicians to take immediate action to deal with the pending crisis posed by global warming. In a meeting with Greenpeace’s executive director, Dr.
Comments on the Proposed Comprehensive Study Scoping Documentfor an Environmental Assessment of the Proposal by Ontario Power Generation for a Deep Underground Dump (DUD)for Low- and Intermediate-Level Radioactive Waste
If you keep up to date with environmental issues in Ontario, then you may have heard a lot of buzz lately about the Long-Term Energy Plan. This plan serves as the basis for the provincial government's energy decisions going forward.
The magnificent, rare Clayoquot Sound is one of the most famous forests in the world. More than a decade ago, the fight to save Clayoquot Sound inspired global interest in the area, making it known the world over. Clayoquot is again under threat.
The new report commissioned by Greenpeace warns that Canada’s CANDU-6 nuclear reactor, designed by Atomic Energy of Canada Limited (AECL) in the 1970s, is unsafe and too dangerous to build according to modern regulatory standards.
By Rex Weyler
Climate change is one of the greatest threats facing humanity and the rest of nature this century. Yet, in Election 2011 climate change barely gets a mention from leaders on the campaign trail.
Hundreds of people told the Canadian Nuclear Safety Commission (CNSC) it shouldn’t approve Ontario Power Generation’s (OPG) plan to rebuild the four aging Darlington reactors during public hearings last week. People overwhelmingly...
If an accident were to happen at Darlington, where would the radioactive fallout end up? Yesterday it ended up in New York State and on the way there contaminated Lake Ontario, the drinking water source for millions of Canadians and...
Hearings on the future of the Dar lington nuclear station begin on Monday. The hearings will be controversial. In a post Fukushima world, Ontario Power Generation’s (OPG) proposal to spend billions to rebuild the outdated...
The Canadian Nuclear Safety Commission (CNSC) announced today it would delay hearings on the future of the Darlington nuclear station because of the “high number of interventions.” There’s good reason for the public to be concerned...
Historic news that Japan will phase out nuclear power has rounded off yet another terrible week for the global nuclear industry. Japan's decision to end its reliance on nuclear power by the 2030s means it will join countries...
Ontario Power Generation’s (OPG) Darlington nuclear station has been killing millions of fish every year, in contravention of federal environmental law. You can help stop this. At public hearings in 2011, a representative from the...
Nuclear accidents are happening once a decade somewhere in the world, but Canadian government authorities are still pretending such accidents won’t happen here in Canada. This is a dangerous attitude we need to change. This fall you...
When I was growing up I always heard about the crazy things that Greenpeace people did around the world in order to protect the environment. Who knew that ten years after I would be one of them. My discovery of Greenpeace...
Hidden in legislation the McGuinty government says will save $25 million a year by merging two electricity system planning agencies are major changes to the oversight of province’s electricity system that could cost Ontarians billions...
You're invited. From Fukushima to Toronto: A Town Hall is an opportunity to understand the causes of the Fukushima disaster and the parallels that exist in Ontario’s nuclear industry. It will provide community groups, as well as...
I visited both the Ukraine and Japan last year. I saw two countries that have been forever changed by technological hubris.In the Ukraine I met people still coping with Chernobyl’s fallout twenty five years later. In Japan, I made...
An international group of activists met in Japan 3 days ago to climb Mt. Fuji as a way to remember the nuclear disaster that happened in Fukushima last year. The goal of the climb was to show support to the people that were affected...
Twenty five years after Chernobyl, the Fukushima nuclear accident has reminded the world about the catastrophic costs of nuclear power. What would the cost of a Fukushima-scale accident look like here in Ontario, where the McGuinty...
As students prepare to go back to school in Canada, kids in Fukushima City are bracing themselves to face dangerous levels of radiation on their first day of classes on September 1. Greenpeace is calling on the new Japanese Prime...
The Ontario NDP has announced that it would pause the Ontario government’s multi-billion dollar plans to expand nuclear energy and instead invest savings in household retrofits that would reduce electricity consumption. In an...
Tim Hudak has promised to introduce a sneaky new nuclear tax to cover the cost overruns from building Ontario’s first generation of reactors, but today’s news of more massive cost over-runs at nuclear projects in Europe should serve as...
Helsinki — The latest report from Finland is that construction of its first ever EPR nuclear reactor is again delayed; no surprise there. Areva, a French nuclear company is building the Finnish EPR (European Pressurized Reactor).
As Canadians watched the incoming images of the tsunami’s destruction on television, no one knew the devastation in Japan would lead to the world’s worst ongoing nuclear crisis. It was said the earthquake that created the tsunami...
Children living in Fukushima city will need dosimeters to track nuclear radiation after high levels of radiation were detected in the city. While in Canada, the media have all but forgotten Fukushima, the nuclear crisis...
The environmental movement had a huge win last week: Quebec announced it will shut down its only nuclear reactor, Gentilly-2. I believe we can import the success of the campaign to close Gentilly-2 to Ontario. Together we can stop...
Greenpeace activists, green energy supporters and cyclists joined the “Ride for Renewables” and rode from the Pickering nuclear station to the Darlington one, to say “no” to nuclear energy and yes to conservation and green energy.
Toronto Greenpeace Volunteers took part in the 11th annual Zombie Walk and did a pre-event photo shoot outside of Ontario Power Generation to highlight the dangers of nuclear energy.
Greenpeace believes that the sale of new and life-extension operating CANDU-6’s should stop. Greenpeace commissioned Dr. Gordon Thompson to document the unacceptable safety and proliferation risks posed by promotion and operation of CANDU-6...
Greenpeace Canada, 12 Jun 06 - Energy efficiency and low-impact renewable energy sources have the realistic potential to provide more than double the amount of electricity needed in worst case projections of Ontario's future electricity demand.
Greenpeace Canada, 13 Jun 06 - Greenpeace activists today began an occupation of the office of recently re-appointed Ontario Energy Minister Dwight Duncan in the Hearst Block in response to the government’s announcement that it is committing to a...
Greenpeace Canada, 15 Jun 06 - Public right to know denied say environmentalists Environmental groups condemned the McGuinty government’s move to exempt its $83 billion electricity plan from an environmental assessment. The exemption was provided...
Greenpeace Canada, 24 Jun 06 - As preparations begin for the 2007 Ontario provincial elections Greenpeace calls on the Ontario Liberal party faithful to say yes to a green energy future for Ontario
Greenpeace Canada, 21 Aug 06 - Greenpeace activists staged a picket today at the Dalton McGuinty Golf Tour, taking place at the Angus Glen golf club in Markham, Ontario. Activists held a banner stating “Nuclear Power = Bogey Time” and calling the...
Greenpeace Canada, 9 Oct 06 - Greenpeace activists gathered today at the Peace Garden in Nathan Phillips Square to condemn the underground testing of a nuclear weapon by North Korea. South Korea’s intelligence agency detected a 3.58 magnitude...
At public hearings on Monday in Kincardine, Ontario, Greenpeace Canada will urge the Canadian Nuclear Safety Commission (CNSC) to say ‘no’ to a low-level environmental assessment on Ontario Power Generation’s (OPG) proposed radioactive waste dump...
According to documents acquired by Greenpeace under Freedom of Information legislation and reported in today’s Toronto Star, the McGuinty government’s decision to sign a $4 billion contract with Bruce Power to restart ageing nuclear reactors may...
The federal nuclear regulator must assess the impacts of a major accident or terrorist attack as part its environmental assessment and safety review of Ontario Power Generation’s (OPG) proposal to rebuild the Pickering B nuclear station,...
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