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Bishop's Statement on Uranium Development
Article
1977
The Roman Catholic and Ukranian Catholic Bishops express their concern about uranium mining and nuclear energy in Saskatchewan. The bishops recognize that uranium could be generate a substantial suppl...
Blocking Progress: Consensus Decision Making In The Anti-Nuclear Movement
Ryan, Howard
Article
1983
Howard Ryan maintains that consensus is wrong in principle and in practice: "The problem is not so much that individuals are being irresponsible or somehow abusing the consensus process. The problem l...
Health Dangers of the Nuclear Fuel Chain and Low-Level Ionizing Radiation
Book
1979
An annotated bibliography of resources on the nuclear fuel chain and its potential impacts on human health.
Nuclear Culture: Living and Working in the World's Largest Atomic Complex
Loeb, Paul
Book
An account of the growth of the Hanford Nuclear Reservation in Washington State, the birth of the atomic bomb, and the culture which it spawned. Here we meet a high school football team - 'The Bombers...
Nuclear Power: Nuclear's second wind: New Internationalist September 2005
Serial Publication (Periodical)
2005
A look at the return of the use of nuclear power and why. Discussion of the history of the effects of nuclear power in the past.
The nuclear renaissance is stone cold dead
Green, Jim
Article
2013
2013 has been the nuclear power industry's annus horribilis and the nuclear renaissance can now be pronounced stone cold dead. The industry is finding it increasingly difficult to profitably operate e...
Other Voices: The Connexions Newsletter - January 30, 2016: Conflict of interest
Diemer, Ulli (ed.)
Serial Publication (Periodical)
2016
This issue of Other Voices shines a light on the murky world of conflict of interest, the hidden reality that often underlies appearances of neutrality, objectivity, and due process. Conflicts of inte...
The Seventh Decade: The New Shape of Nuclear Danger
Schell, Jonathan
Book
2008
The Seventh Decade reveals many things. Amongst them is the history of global nuclear politics and the Bush government's policies that endanger the security of Americans and the world. Schell ass...
Silkwood
Nichols, Mike (director)
Film/Video
1983
A film inspired by the life of Karen Silkwood. Silkwood was a nuclear whistleblower and a labour union activist who died in a suspicious car accident while investigating alleged wrongdoing at the Kerr...
Stupid to the Last Drop: How Alberta is Bringing Environmental Armageddon to Canada (and Doesn't Seem to Care)
Marsden, William
Book
2007
As the world teeters on the edge of catastrophic climate change, Alberta plunges ahead with uncontrolled development of its fossil fuels, levelling its northern Boreal forest to get at the oil sands, ...
Uranium Mine and Mill Workers are Dying, and Nobody Will Take Responsibility: In the Southwest, poisoned uranium workers are still seeking justice
Sorrentino, Joseph
Article
2016
To talk to former uranium miners and their families is to talk about the dead and the dying. Brothers and sisters, coworkers and friends: a litany of names and diseases. Many were, as one worker put i...
The World Without Us
Weisman, Alan
Book
2007
A thought experiment to see what would happen to the planet if human beings simply disappeared.

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Inter-Church Uranium Committee
Organization profile published 1983
Organization
1983
Inter-Church Uranium Committee
Organization profile published 1984
Organization
1984
Saskatchewan Coalition Against Nuclear Development
Organization
1979
This packet of published materials deals with the goals, history and present action of the Saskatchewan Coalition Against Nuclear Develpment (SCAND).