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By David Schindler and Marlo Raynolds
Several prominent environmental scientists are grudgingly contemplating a role for nuclear power in the Alberta electricity system, a testament to just how catastrophic and certain the implications of accelerating global warming are. As the recent G-8 Summit revealed, virtually everyone has started taking climate change seriously.
Unfortunately, that is not yet true of the Alberta government. Our federal government is also still falling short on most counts.
The federal and provincial governments’ failure to rein in the growth of Canada’s emissions has fed the notion we need to search more widely for technologies that might…
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