Leben, Lernen & Arbeiten in Kanada » Nuclear Powerplant in Alberta !!

Auch das noch, jetzt überlegen sie doch glatt ob die so
ein Ding dort bauen wollen !
Die wissen ja nicht was die sich damit antun.
Soweit ich es weis steht in ganz Canada noch kein so ein Teil, oder ?
Jetzt haben die so viel Platz um green Power zu machen und dann der "Mist".

Hier der Artikel aus dem Calgary Herald


Alfred Johnson has no problem with the nuclear power plant that could be built five kilometres north of his land.

In fact, he's helping organize a new pro-nuclear power group in the Peace River area.

Anti-nuclear groups were quick to gather their forces after initial plans for a nuclear plant surfaced in Alberta almost two years ago, but a pro-nuclear presence is beginning to jell.

Sipping their coffees in a Peace River Tim Hortons, Johnson and Ed Pimm said the fledgling group is called the Committee for Sustainable Regional Socio-Economic Development.

They think the power plant, like the Daishowa Marubeni pulp mill built in the region years earlier, could provide lots of high-paying, steady jobs, as well as plentiful economic spinoff opportunities. This is something their community badly needs, they say.

Both Johnson and Pimm want their community to be able to hold its generations, rather than having them flung far afield in search of work.

"We tell our kids to get an education, but then there's nothing for them," Pimm said.

His group favours the first proposed site, near Lac Cardinal, because of it central location to the many communities in the area.

The two men say neither of them have their land optioned to the company.

Johnson's land is on top of the aquifer that also underlies the Lac Cardinal site. He trusts the project won't go ahead if environmental assessments find it poses a serious threat to the groundwater.

"I have far more concerns with oil and gas companies poking holes through that aquifer than I do about a nuclear power plant with a containment building that has 30-foot-thick concrete walls," he said.

Pimm said their group took a while to form partly because "a lot of us who were pro-nuclear were trying to find our feet as far as knowledge." They also thought Bruce Energy was big enough to fend for itself.

Pimm said their membership is about 30 people. They believe they would have more members from small businesses if those people weren't so concerned that a pro-nuclear stance would alienate their customers.

Earlier this week they had a meeting at which they decided to start writing letters to elected officials and visiting various councils in the area.

Johnson and Pimm don't expect the nuclear plant to be the only project their group speaks out on.

"It's the nuclear-plant issue that put us together, but it probably won't be the only issue that keeps us together," Johnson said.

Pimm said they don't intend to pick fights with local anti-nuclear groups. "We're not out for mudslinging," Johnson said. "Let's get the positive side of this going."

Donald Ames, general manager of the Peace River and District Chamber of Commerce, hadn't heard of the organization, but said it's important to let Bruce Power know the project is wanted. The power company's president has said they don't want to set up in a community that doesn't want them.

Brenda Brochu, president of the Peace River Environmental Society, said she doesn't see the new group as a big threat to the anti-nuclear message. "I don't think there's a groundswell of people that will gravitate to that."

She acknowledged the concern of young people leaving the area because of the lack of jobs, but she said focusing on environmentally friendly energy and industries would be a better way to bring money and jobs to the area.

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Soweit ich es weis steht in ganz Canada noch kein so ein Teil, oder ?

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Klasse, dann fühlt man sich ja gleich wie zuhause!

alles klar ich habs nun gesehen das im Osten schon der eine oder andere Riesenblock steht.
Wow keine 20 km vom Stadtzentrum von Toronto.
Da sind die 30 km von Peace River mitten in den Pampa recht weit weg !
Fragt sich nur was das für Auswirkungen auf die Region hat.
Mehr Leute wegen der Arbeitsstellen gleich höhere Preise, oder
fallen die Preise weil dort keiner wohnen mag ?

ist bestimmt gesuender als die oel-wolke die immer ueber sherwood park hinweg zieht,und dann wundern sich welche warum die krebsrate dort so hoch ist