nuclear energy

Iran Admits to Secret Second Nuclear Plant Built Inside Mountain

Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad visits the Natanz uranium enrichment facility in 2008. Iran on Tuesday hailed a major boost to its capacity to produce nuclear fuel as it prepared to join talks with the major powers next week that the West hopes will lead to a suspension of the sensitive process. (AFP/IPO-HO/File)

Iran has informed the International Atomic Energy Agency that it has been building a previously undeclared nuclear facility to enrich uranium, raising fears that Tehran is closer to acquiring an atomic bomb than has been predicted up until now.

The presence of a secret second site - built inside a mountain near the holy Shia city of Qum - has been known about by American and other Western intelligence agencies for some time, although nothing has been revealed until now.

Canada's Becoming a 'Global Carbon Bully': Greenpeace

Sludge spews into a tailings pond at the Syncrude plant site in Fort McMurray, Alta.
(Photograph by: Chris Schwarz, CanWest News Service)

MONTREAL - A new report from Greenpeace says oil production in Alberta's tar sands has made Canada into a "global carbon bully."

Little has been done to tackle climate change in Canada, and the federal government has actively tried to block international agreements and laws targeting climate change, says the report, called Dirty Oil: How The Tar Sands Are Fuelling the Global Climate Crisis.

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