Peace River Environmental Society
Peace River Environmental Society fought Bruce Power's plans to build a nuclear power plant in northern Alberta. In December 2011, the company abandoned its plan to build up to four nuclear reactors that could produce 4,000 megawatts of electricity at a site 30 kilometres north of Peace River.
Read more about this topic: Anti-nuclear Movement In Canada
Famous quotes containing the words peace, river and/or society:
“To many men ... the miasma of peace seems more suffocating than the bracing air of war.”
—George Steiner (b. 1929)
“There is a great river this side of Stygia,”
—Wallace Stevens (1879–1955)
“The hatred of the youth culture for adult society is not a disinterested judgment but a terror-ridden refusal to be hooked into the, if you will, ecological chain of breathing, growing, and dying. It is the demand, in other words, to remain children.”
—Midge Decter (b. 1927)