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- 1976-1978 (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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Items clipped together with a note ‘Early FOE Dublin leaflets & statements’, containing a poster promoting an alternative technology workshop; pro forma letter addressed to The Secretary, Wexford County Council, Town Hall, Wexford, objecting to the granting of outline planning permission for a nuclear power station at Carnsore Point; blank petition form for an independent public enquiry into the proposal ‘to go nuclear’; assorted fact sheets relating to nuclear power, the cost of electricity generation in the UK, the Rasmussen report on reactor safety and alternative energy sources; assorted press statements relating to FOE and its activities, the proposal to build a nuclear power plant at Carnsore Point, and an error in the Government’s recent green paper on energy policy; and photocopies of three reports relating to nuclear power and energy policy.
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- English