NB paper goes to court seeking to make Lepreau 2 study public - telegraphjournal.com

Paper goes to court seeking Lepreau 2 study

Published Tuesday September 2nd, 2008

 
 

Rob Linke

Telegraph-Journal

 
 

OTTAWA - The Telegraph-Journal will ask a Court of Queen's Bench judge today to order the provincial energy department to make public a study Atomic Energy of Canada Ltd. did on the case for a second nuclear reactor at Point Lepreau.

The feasibility study, which AECL and its partners paid for and own, was submitted to Energy Minister Jack Keir last February.

The study contains details of Team Candu's proposal to build a 1,100-megawatt new-generation ACR-1000 reactor at Lepreau.

The plant's construction would be privately financed. It would be owned by Team Candu, a consortium that includes AECL and four leading technology and engineering corporations, but operated by NB Power.

The study would include preliminary pricing for the multibillion-dollar project as well as an evaluation of the market for electricity and all aspects of the overall business case.

Also in February, the Telegraph-Journal promptly filed a request under the Right to Information Act for both the Team Candu study and separate third-party study, by MZ Consulting Inc.

 

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