November 2009

The Coalition for Nuclear Quebec out of opposing the acquisition of the Point Lepreau nuclear power by Hydro-Quebec Sept-Iles

RELEASE For Immediate Release

Purchase of New Brunswick Power
Hydro-Quebec must exclude the Central Point Lepreau nuclear

Montreal, November 2, 2009: Hydro-Quebec must exclude NPP Point Lepreau and any proposed nuclear expansion, the transaction involving the acquisition of New Brunswick Power. According to the coalition Getting through Quebec's nuclear, the cost for such a "nuclearization" of the corporation and for its expansion into the Maritimes could force the territory of Quebec to accommodate all Canadian nuclear waste. Taking responsibility by Hydro-Quebec of thousands of tons of nuclear waste in New Brunswick is the "poison pill" from the purchase of New Energy Brunsnwick. According to Christian Simard

Nature Quebec, a spokesman for the coalition, "The acquisition of Point Lepreau would enter a non-ambiguous Quebec in the Canadian nuclear club. This goes against the traditional political Quebec with respect to the nuclear industry since René Lévesque declared in 1979 a moratorium on its expansion and that Robert Bourassa established In 1989, a policy stating that Quebec will never proceed to the ongoing management of radioactive waste on or near its territory. To date, the policy of the Government of Quebec has consistently reiterated that the nuclear adventure Quebec would end with the end of useful life of the Gentilly-2 in 2013.

For Quebec become sponsors through Hydro-Quebec, the Canadian nuclear industry will have tremendous environmental, economic, social and intergenerational considerable. In return, Quebec will make available Québec in the ongoing management of all nuclear waste produced by nuclear plants in Canada. It also inherits the obligations agreed between the Government of New Brunswick and Team Canada. Recall that among these agreements, New Brunswick Power has committed to build a second nuclear reactor.

For Michel Duguay, Coordinator of the Coalition, "We must warn the people of Quebec and demand that the government refuses to include the Central Point Lepreau nuclear project in its purchase of New Brunswick Power. The Charest government lacks the legitimacy necessary to authorize, without consulting the population, the acquisition by the Quebec government of the NPP Point Lepreau, nor to engage, without debate, to be built Point Lepreau 2. "The acquisition

Point Lepreau would also mean that Quebec should become the legal owner of everything in this nuclear site, including thousands of tons of radioactive waste. Nobody in the world knows what to do with the waste and over the years the costs of their ongoing management continues to astronomical proportions. In Canada, the official assessment of the costs of ongoing management of waste spent fuel has risen from a few hundred million dollars to over $ 24 billion. All observers agree that this assessment is widely underestimated.

Premature aging of the CANDU nuclear power Point Lepreau and the financial catastrophe in which its refurbishment project precipitated the Crown corporation New Brunswick Power Authority should encourage Quebecers to elect the most elementary caution and reject this transaction. The repair of nuclear reactor made in such bad conditions seriously compromises the quality of work underway at Point Lepreau. Whereas the average lifespan of Canadian nuclear power restored shall not exceed seven years, it would be prudent for the government of Quebec requires that Hydro-Quebec gets Point Lepreau its proposed acquisition. According

Waridel, ecosociologist, "Rather than stubbornly continue down the nuclear path, the Government of New Brunswick is expected, as the Quebec government, moreover, to end the uncertainty created by the renewal nuclear reactors Point Lepreau and Gentilly-2. Our governments should immediately enact decommissioning of nuclear site and otherwise use the $ 875 million that everyone has already provided for that purpose ".

The combined efforts of Crown corporations that are New Brunswick Power and Hydro-Quebec would be able to develop the expertise required to decommission the safest possible nuclear power plants in Canada and abroad. Proceeding immediately to secure complete our nuclear sites to the highest internationally recognized requirements and developing procedures for monitoring radiological work required could not only create many jobs for decades, but would our people free from the risk of technological accidents, natural or human malevolence (terrorism and military) inherent in the operation of nuclear plants. A market estimated at one trillion dollars will be spent on decommissioning of civil and military infrastructure by the newspaper Le Monde. "For us to conquer these markets and thus help solve the problems caused by the nuclear industry rather than just stubborn to perpetuate" concludes Michel Duguay.

For information: Michel
Fugère Mouvement Vert Mauricie, tel. 819-532-2073
Michel Duguay, Movement for Nuclear Getting through Quebec, tel. 418-656-3557
Christian Simard, Nature Québec, tel. 418-931-1131
reunification "Getting through Quebec's nuclear" consists of the following organizations: Action Re-
goals
Association of Alternative Advocacy

Artists for Peace
Association against the LNG port
Protection Association Environmental Levis (CALL)
Association for Environmental Protection in the Upper Laurentians (APEHL)
Quebec Association of fight against air pollution (AQLPA)
Quebec Association of Professional Education Environmental Athabasca Bioregional Society
(ABS - Alberta)
Canadian Environmental Law Association (CCCA - Michigan)
Pregnancy Advisory Centre in Trois-Rivieres
Skydiving
Citizens for Alternatives to Chemical Contamination
Coalition Citizens Mékinac
Coalition of Quebec regions, Mauricie Coalition Québec Vert Kyoto

Green Coalition Trois-Rivières
Coll.contre the Burial of Radioactive Waste (NAGRA-France)
Environment Committee of Chicoutimi (CEC ) Community Coalition Against Mining
Uranium (Ontario)
Council Conservation of New Brunswick (CCNB)
Collective Kitchens Francheville
Earth Dance Studio
EcoJustice
School of Music Vincent d'Indy
Solar Energy Probe Quebec

ENvironnement JEUnesse
Equiterre
David Suzuki Foundation
Rivers
common front of welfare recipients in Quebec (FCPASQ)
Quebec Common Front ecological waste management (FCQGÉD)
Glacialis
Greenpeace
Group on Environmental Education, 3R
Action Group for the Protection of Environment - ORT
Action Group for restoration Lake Saint-Pierre
Ecology Research Group, University of Montreal
Group for Interdisciplinary Research in Environmental Management (Greig), UQAM
Group Ecosphere (Frelisburg)
Group
Mauritian Pride Resource Group Plateau Mont- Royal Institute of Natural Health
Fleury-Rode
Inter Chuch Uranium Committee Educational Co-op (Saskatchewan)
Street Journal The Galley
The Green Party (Quebec)
Philanthropic
Crossing Protection Committee lakes Marquis
The Council of Canadians ( Ontario - Quebec)
the weight Verde student association
Friends of the Earth Quebec
Les Jardins de la Cité
League Citizens sector Beaurivage Shawinigan
House grandparents Villeray
House Inc. insects.
Youth House
Barefoot Doctors - Canada
Mouvement Au Courant
Movement Ecology College Lionel Groulx
Movement Intercultural Environment (MIE)
Green Movement
Muséobus
Nature Mauricie Quebec
OJM (body Jeunéthiquement Modified)
Professionals Health for the Nuclear Liability
Health Professionals for Global Survival (WSSP)
spoilsport
Coalition of environmental Coalition of Energy Workers
victims of nuclear
Coalition for Nuclear Responsibility (NSR)
Network Ressourcerie
Network "Sortir du nucléaire" (France)
Quebec Network of environmental groups (RQGE)
Quebec Network for the Voluntary Simplicity
DREAM
Sierraclub
Quebec Society for overcoming pollution
Union Paysanne
Union St. Lawrence Great Lakes
Zero Nuclear