4 - Friday, December 12, 1986 - North Shore News Bob Hunter @ strictly personal © FIRST, a tip of the hat to Energy Minister Jack Davis for dumping so quickly on the bizarre idea of a nuclear power plant in Fort Nelson. Davis, it seems, is dedicated to preserving British Columbia's nu- clear virginity. If he stands firm, we will have witnessed the fastest shooting- down of a nuclear scam yet. Davis has also promised to make an announcement in the New Year about whether B.C.’s moratorium on uranium mining will be ex- pended. The current ban expires in February. I am fairly confident that our New energy minister won't go astray on this one since he was so swift in responding to the Fort Nelson nuke proposal once he learned abgut it. The coverage on all this was in- teresting—since it is a commentary on the way information moves through the media in this province. The television stations hesitate to send a crew much beyond the boundaries of the Greater Van- couver Regional District because they have to start paying per diems as well as mileage, and the radio stations never do unless there’s some kind of major jock event happening. The Pacific Press menolith missed the Fort Nelson nuke story entirely until it was broken in this space Nov. 21. The Province and The Sun followed up with stories which were presented as though they were exclusives, Less than a week lapsed before the vigilante NDP decided that they were 100 per cent opposed to a nuke in Fort Nelson. Federal NDP energy critic Ian Waddell waded in with an appropriate denunciation of nuclear power, which he termed ‘‘a dying in- dustry.’”’ Indeed, it is an industry which would have been dead in Canada a long time ago except for massive and unrelenting government sub- MINI-TRUCKS & VANS sidies and boondoggling. By that ! mean offering Candu reactors to East Bloc countries in exchange for strawberries or flogging them to dictatorships such as Argentina used to be, or quasi-democracies like South Korea. For the record, it was Tory MP and federal science minister Frank Oberle who was hustling the scheme, claiming that Ottawa might be willing to set up an exper- imental ‘‘Slowpoke’’ nuclear reac- tor at Fort Nelson for free. Davis, an old pro who ance acted as an economic adviser to Atomic Energy of Canada Ltd., saw through that one right away. “It’s not economic,’” he said flat- ly. “Even if they got it for free, they’d have to pay for fuel and the other costs.’’ Of course, what the other costs might ultimately be, is really beyond calculation. Ex-Fort Nelson Mayor Dick Newfeld, who stickhandled the idea through its initial stages, admitted to being ‘‘a little nervous’’ about the idea of a reactor plunked next door to his town. Gosh. After Three Mile Island and Chernobyl, I should hope. During the same short week that the nuclear kettle was bubbling in B.C., there were tantalizing revela- tions about Canada’s role in help- ing Britain to build its first atomic bomb. This brings to four the number of countries which Canada has directly or indirectly aided in the creation of nuclear weapons. First, we provided the raw mate- rials from which the original American atomic bomb was built and subsequently dropped on Japan. For nearly a decade after the war, we supplied the U.S. with huge amounts of plutonium and uranium for military purposes. RADIALS rrom 79% BIAS We also siphoned off enough pluionium to the British for them to test their first nuke in the Australian desert in the mid- 50s. After that, of course, we blithely went on to build a Candu reactor for India, whereupon the children of Mahauna Ghandi cheated on the terms of the deal (as any fool could have predicted they would) and set off their own atomic bomb. Ever since, course, a major push in Pakistan fo produce the world’s first Islamic bomb to counter the Indian bomb. I's coming, thank vou, Canada. 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