[cdn-nucl-l] Bruce Power employee to take part in World Summit on Sustainable Development

["Adam McLean" <adam.mclean@utoronto.ca>]

Posted on the Bruce Power web site on August 15, 2002 at:
http://www.brucepower.com/media/press/index.html
One lucky Bruce Power employee!
See more about the Johannesburg conference on Sustainable Development
at:
http://www.johannesburgsummit.org/
And the Toronto-based group TakingITGlobal organizing the youth event
paralleling the summit at:
http://earthyouth.takingitglobal.org/

Adam

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Bruce Power employee to take part in World Summit on Sustainable
Development

Sandy Nelson will share her Mission Antarctica experiences at South
African summit
TIVERTON, ON – Aug. 15, 2002 – Sandy Nelson, a document author at Bruce
Power, has been named to an international delegation that will travel to
South Africa later this month for the World Summit on Sustainable
Development. Nelson, who traveled to Antarctica earlier this year to
help remove waste from an abandoned Russian research station, will
represent Canada at the World Summit as a member of the Mission
Antarctica delegation. The summit will from Aug. 26 to Sept. 4 in
Johannesburg. “My Antarctic experience really brought home to me that we
are all citizens of the world and our sense of environmental
responsibility should extend to the ends of the earth,” said Nelson,
whose Antarctic adventure and World Summit trip are sponsored by British
Energy. “The United Nations made a commitment at the millennium to spare
no effort to ensure the preservation of our planet for our children and
our children’s children,” Nelson said. “I am eager to do my part by
continuing to spread this message at the summit and at home.” Earlier
this year, Nelson and Steve Ardern of British Energy were selected from
nearly 150 employee applicants to participate in Mission Antarctica
based on the strength of essays they wrote about the importance of
environmental responsibility. Mission Antarctica, which drew
participants from across the world, was an environmental cleanup and
educational project that saw 1,000 tonnes of waste removed from King
George Island. Since returning to her Kincardine home, Nelson has made
more than 35 presentations to area schools and community groups about
her experiences. An accomplished sailor who has twice participated in
the gruelling Georgian Bay Challenge sailboat race, Nelson helped crew
the yacht used by Mission Antarctica. For the World Summit, that craft
is to be covered with the names of everyone who signed a pledge of
support for the mission’s cause and presented to summit officials as a
“floating petition.”

About Bruce Power 
Bruce Power is a partnership among British Energy, the UK’s largest
electricity generator, Cameco Corporation (15%), the largest uranium
fuel supplier in the world, and the two main unions that represent
employees on the Bruce site, the Power Workers’ Union (up to 4%) and The
Society of Energy Professionals (up to 1.2%).
Further information
Steve Cannon 519-361-6559 steve.cannon@brucepower.com

Bruce Power P.O. Box 3000, B0602, Tiverton, Ontario N0G 2T0
(519) 361-7777/Facsimile (519) 361-1840

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http://www.newswire.ca/releases/August2002/14/c2633.html

Youth spin web for UN earth summit

    Canadian youth lead development of global online environmental
network
    
    Thousands to use the website at upcoming UN conference

    TORONTO, Aug. 14 /CNW/ - When world leaders, including Prime
Minister
Jean Chrétien, gather in Johannesburg, South Africa, August 26-September
4,
for the World Summit on Sustainable Development in what the United
Nations is
billing as the largest summit on poverty and the environment, they will
be
joined by thousands of young people who want to know what politicians
will do
to build a sustainable planet. And uniquely, thanks to Canadian
innovation,
they will remain in touch after the Summit via a new global online
environmental portal called Earthyouth.net.
    Earthyouth.net is the brainchild of TakingITGlobal (TIG), a Toronto-
headquartered non-profit organisation run by youth who have been
developing an
online one-stop-shop for youth interested in sustainable development. It
includes an introduction to issues, a detailed calendar of Summit
events, a
database of organisations, and a project management system to facilitate
international collaboration. Young reporters in South Africa and a
network of
international correspondents will cover environmental news and analysis
of
government action - or inaction.
    The potential for Earthyouth.net to engage young people in the
Summit
process has won the support and attention of the United Nations. UNICEF
and
the United Nations Development Program (UNDP) have both supported its
development, and the United Nations Environment Program (UNEP) has
endorsed
the project. Other support has come from the Lifebridge Foundation and
Pollution Probe. TIG has also amassed a coalition of major youth
organisations
in nearly 100 countries to provide content and help with promotion.
    If it all seems impressive for a bunch of teens, that's just TIG
style.
The organisation, which has members in over 190 countries, has been
capturing
the attention globally for its vitality and growth. In January,
TakingITGlobal
Executive Director, 22-year-old Jennifer Corriero was named the youngest
World
Economic Forum 2002 Global Leader of Tomorrow.
    "It's about time that young people leveraged their influence in
today's
society to create positive change and impact on a global level", said
Corriero. "This is just the first phase of our work to engage young
people in
sustainable development".

For further information: Dhruv Malhotra, Earthyouth.net Project 
Coordinator, TakingITGlobal, (416) 928 3362 ext.4225, 
dhruv@takingitglobal.org
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