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- 1980 (Creation)
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Simon Dalby was educated at Trinity College, Dublin (BA) and the University of Victoria, Canada (MA) and holds a PhD from Simon Fraser University of British Columbia, Canada. He was Professor of Geography, Environmental Studies and Political Economy at Carleton University in Ottawa until 2012, when he joined Wilfrid Laurier University’s Balsillie School of International Affairs as professor of Geography and Environmental Studies. His research interests include climate change, environmental security and geopolitics, on which topics he has published extensively.
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Press cuttings from the Irish Times originally contained in a folder marked ‘I. T. Press Cuttings Energy/ Nuclear 1980’. Topics include the energy crisis; anti-nuclear campaigns; alternative sources of energy; 1970 Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty; accidents, incidents and problems relating to nuclear plants and radioactive waste material abroad; nuclear tests carried out in South Africa; explosion in Cork Harbour on board a tanker carrying butane gas; cross-border gas and electricity links; construction of nuclear power plants abroad; Kinsale gas fields and the supply of natural gas across Ireland; nuclear arms race and threat of nuclear war; nuclear debate in Ireland; uranium production; EEC oil plan; search for oil and gas on the Irish coast; coal mining and the rise in the cost of oil gas and electricity prices. In thirteen folders.
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- English