Even so, the hardest thing will be to change people's perceptions, says Adrian Mowat, an analyst at J.

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The Conservative MP for Warrington South, David Mowat, said nuclear technology is much safer and more advanced than when it was first being developed.

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Just where the Farley Mowat, a Dutch-registered yacht being used by the society to protest against Canada's annual seal hunt, was at the time is in dispute.

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"We believe the failed backloading vote points to the fact that we need alternative tools - direct, ambitious, just regulatory policies, " said Hannah Mowat from Fern, a NGO that has been working on carbon issues for a decade.

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