Posted AT 7:44 PM EST on 13/03/08
Alberta's nuclear reactor plan doubles to four
OTTAWA — Ottawa's new climate change rules have provided an important boost to
Bruce Power's expanded nuclear ambitions in northwestern Alberta, Duncan Hawthorne, the company's chief executive, said yesterday.
Bruce, a private sector consortium that operates a nuclear site in Ontario, revealed a bold $10-billion plan to build as many as four reactors and bring nuclear power to a province that is run on fossil fuels.
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