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Article: Canada reactor deal with China speeded Critics hit trade-at-any-cost ethic
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- The Boston Globe (Boston, MA)
- Article date:
- December 30, 1996
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OTTAWA -- In a scramble to expand trade with China further, Canada
is quietly paring back its environmental regulations to speed the
sale of two nuclear reactors to the country.
Prime Minister Jean Chretien, who is determined to transform
Canada into an important Pacific economic player, wants to see that
the $3 billion project gets under way by Wednesday.
But environmental organizations and human rights groups are
threatening to bring legal action to impede the sale, which they
describe as economically opportunistic and ecologically reckless.
"China is a known nuclear proliferator with a disturbing record on
human rights," said Kristen Ostling, an official with the
Ottawa-based Campaign for ...