GreenerPolitics

From the Toronto Star
Hugh Wilkins
Mark Winfield

Federal Natural Resources Minister Gary Lunn has become an increasingly vocal promoter of nuclear power, most recently in a speech to the Economic Club in Toronto earlier this week. Lunn has backed his proposals with statements that nuclear energy is “emission-free,” produces “no greenhouse gases” and “there’s no pollutants going out (with) the energy.”

Unfortunately, none of these claims is true. So much so, in fact, that late last year Sierra Legal, acting on behalf of a coalition of environmental, public health, church and community groups and renewable energy developers, including the Pembina Institute, filed a false advertising complaint against the Canadian Nuclear Association under the federal Competition Act for a high-profile advertising campaign making similar claims. The nuclear association’s ads have stated that nuclear power is “clean,” “affordable” and “reliable.”

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