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- January-June 1981 (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 and Cork Examiner, originally contained in a folder marked ‘Press Cuttings Ireland Energy 1981’. Topics include the eviction of demonstrators from the site for a controversial hydroelectric plant in Norway; visit of Bruce Kent, general secretary of the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament in Britain; proposed referendum on nuclear energy; nuclear related accidents and incidents abroad; rise in the cost of petrol, coal and gas; Kinsale gas field; EEC stand on nuclear power; alternative sources of energy and energy saving measures; earth tremor in Wexford; British Government’s nuclear programme; activities of anti-nuclear lobbies in Ireland and abroad; and a natural gas field discovery on the border between Cavan and Fermanagh. In five folders.
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- English