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We don’t want hundreds of modular nuclear reactors across Canada

In the Liberal rewriting of the Harper government’s 2012 Environmental Assessment Act, nuclear industry lobbyists succeeded in placing small modular nuclear reactors on the list of projects exempt from environmental assessment.

Opinion
BY JOHN BENNETT
June 13, 2022

Opinion | BY JOHN BENNETT | June 13, 2022

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