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COMMENT DECEMBER, 2008

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Hi, my name is Ingrid Hillyard and I live in Manning, Alberta. I am passionatlly opposed to the nuclear power plant, not just in our backyard, but everywhere! The whole world has finalized opened its eyes and realized that we have screwed up the planet for future generations because of our bad choices and are making drastic changes to reduce the damage. But what are we Albertans doing? We are continuing to make bad choices that will ultimately damage our very livelihood here in Alberta, farming. We are sometimes taunted as being backward in the media, but this is one time I really agree. How can we still be going backwards with our technology, when so many advances have been made! There are numerous alternatives to nuclear power out there, were they researched as viable options? We need to stop being selfish, stupid people and join the rest of the world in making safer, healthier choices for our homes. We do live here remember! We arent talking about some place way over there, we are talking about our own backyards where our children play. If you cant change for your own self, at least change for the sake of your kids!

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Four things Albertans need to consider: 1. It is not advisable to have a huge amount of power by one generator. Residents should be looking at small ways to become independent of the grid. The nuclear power option puts hundreds of thousands of people into a state of dependency for their power. If there is a problem with the power producer, all those people have a problem - no power. 2. It's been more than 50 years and still there is no place on earth that has a permanent waste storage solution, nor a solution to ongoing nuclear operations pollution. The nuclear power option should be put on the backburner until there is a permanent and acceptable means to deal with uranium mining pollution contaminating ground water, spent nuclear fuel, and radiation leaking from everyday nuclear operations. 3. Canadians are becoming much more educated in how to conserve energy and use our resources more wisely. The projected energy requirements suggested by industry are very likely extremely inflated. Albertans may want to question where those numbers came from before accepting those projections. Consider also that the nuclear industry made a similar projection for Saskatchewan in the 1990's and it never came to fruition. 4. Citizens of Canada are on the hook to subsidize the nuclear industry. As this industry is not viable without our tax dollars for research and development, among other expenses, it may not be an industry Canadians want to continue to support into the future. We should cut our losses now and put those tax dollars into supporting sustainable industry that will provide safe and clean power. -Wanda Laurin, Peace River

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My name is Diane Plowman and I live in the Peace River area. I am very concerned about the construction of the proposed nuclear power plant in our area for a number of reasons:
-Even in the most optimistic and ideal world, nuclear power plants have an operational life of only 20-30 years. -The very short-term economic gain (and the collateral social changes that come with development of this magnitude) is not worth the legacy of hundreds of years of radioactive waste in our community. -There is no indication that Albertans will need this nuclear generated power (there are many safer power alternatives awaiting approval in our province) -Non-Albertans will clearly profit while Albertans will live with the risks we will house in our community for generations to come. -Our health and the health of future generations is more valuable than economic gain. For these reasons, I believe our community should have an opportunity to clearly examine the issues - the potential impacts and health risks are concerns that every Albertan should consider - It is my opinion that nuclear power should not be supported in our province.

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My name is Shonda Stacey, together with my family, we have land in the Warrensville area, north of Grimshaw. As a “crow flies”, it is 11 miles east of the proposed nuclear site. I am very much against nuclear power. I am very concerned with the Grimshaw Gravels Aquifer being contaminated, since that is where we get our water from for our livestock and our gardens. I am also concerned with the toxic air pollution that it will bring as well as the on site storage of radioactive spent fuel. Does our agriculture sectors really want to be labelled with having grown grain or raised livestock in a contaminated environment? Do we really want Alberta to be labelled as the toxic waste dump of Canada? There ARE renewable, clean ways to produce power, I know, my family have produced our own power using a wind turbine and a solar array. We have never been tied into the grid ever! Recently, when Grimshaw and some rural areas experienced power outages for a few hours at a time, guess what?, our power wasn’t out!

Nuclear power is NOT safe, NOT clean, NOT economical. My name is Tom Cain and live in southern Alberta and am deeply concerned about misinformation and a biased Alberta committee which has only pro-nuclear members. Dr. Jim Harding, the very knowledgeable author of Canada's Deadly Secret (Saskatchewan uranium and the global nuclear system), visited Lethbridge a few weeks ago. He explained in great depth the exorbant costs and dangers of nuclear power in Ontario. Albertans should look at this from a clear knowledge base. We as Canadians do not have the studies like those completed by the German government that concluded their children would get cancer and NOT be safe. They have said "NO" to nuclear power for good reason. Albertans should also say "NO".