Natural Resources committee  Good morning. My name is Shawn-Patrick Stensil, and I am an energy and climate campaigner for Greenpeace Canada. I'll make my presentation in English, but I'll be pleased to hear your questions in French. I'd like to thank the committee for this opportunity to present to you to

Natural Resources committee  That's a very good question. First, the Senate committee on natural resources in 2002 looked into risk assessments at the CNSC and had a number of large criticisms around how they were done, so it's not specifically Greenpeace that has addressed this. They made a number of recomm

Natural Resources committee  Well, there are two things. In terms of intentionally making a flawed assessment or intentionally omitting things, I will give you an example. One of the biggest areas where the probability of an accident can occur is in terms of what's called external events—floods, earthquak

Natural Resources committee  One comment I would make on this is on the SARS impact for Toronto. I didn't see any mention of.... Industries such as tourism would be greatly affected if there were an accident at the Pickering nuclear station. Even if it was a near miss, it would become known worldwide. There'

Natural Resources committee  What I would say in regard to the report is that after we released it, the provincial Minister of the Environment referred it to the Ontario drinking water standards committee, which is currently undertaking a review of tritium standards in Ontario, which is exactly the issue we

Natural Resources committee  I don't think there should be a cap. We're still learning about the health impacts from Hiroshima and Nagasaki, as well as from Chernobyl, and intergenerational impacts are just that--they're intergenerational, so we won't necessarily see them show up. It will take a great deal o

Natural Resources committee  I didn't state an opinion on that per se. If my memory serves, there has been a change since 2001 in European conventions regarding responsibility for terrorist attacks. I'd have to confirm that. My point was that under the Nuclear lLability Act as proposed, nuclear operators

Natural Resources committee  That's a great question, because it raises an issue I forgot to mention in my presentation. As I mentioned, I filed a petition with the Environment Commissioner. There had been previous petitions, again, as a way of trying to push previous governments to table this legislation.

Natural Resources committee  Thank you very much. I will give my presentation in English, but I will be pleased to answer your questions and comments in French. Thank you very much for the invitation to speak to you today. You're dealing with a very important topic. It's one that Greenpeace doesn't believ

Natural Resources committee  Thank you very much. Regarding the figures, I was here last week when the minister said that the subsidies amounted to $8 billion. For some reason, every time the federal government prepares estimates on AECL, it does so in dollars of the year. The standard practice is for accou

Natural Resources committee  That's a very good question, and I don't have the answer to it, the final part. That's one of the reasons we asked the question of the Environment Commissioner. The Environment Commissioner can demand that NRCan respond within three months, so we hope this will force them to resp

Natural Resources committee  Thank you. It's a very good question. Greenpeace has focused quite a bit of work on the development of Ontario's electricity plan. I think if you take two steps back from this debate, the province has the jurisdiction over its developing energy policy. In 2005 it developed a lon

Natural Resources committee  It's partly to get a bid out. Also, no other activities have been happening in the province, such as the green energy act. The province also paused its electricity plan review and is revising its targets. The percentage of nuclear and the timing may in fact change, so that's im

Natural Resources committee  I'll raise a different line of questioning that the committee may want to examine, which is the ethics of what sorts of international safety standards we would be applying in selling a generation II reactor. This is a pre-Chernobyl, pre-September 11 reactor. Notably, in 2005, t

Natural Resources committee  Thank you very much for this opportunity to speak to you again. Greenpeace released a report today analyzing the subsidies that are provided to the nuclear industry by this act. I hope you have received it by e-mail; it will also be provided to the clerk. Il y a aussi un résumé