Sentences with phrase «slowed plant closures»
One of Canada's leading scholars on deindustrialization and the author of Industrial Sunset: The Making of North America's Rust Belt, 1969 — 1985, Concordia historian Steven High, assumes that deindustrialization did occur to some extent, but that nationalist worker activism forced politicians to legislate advance warnings of shutdowns, better packages and, in some cases, even slowed plant closures.
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France has some quite ambitious renewable energy targets (32 % of all energy by 2030), coupled with a partial (initially 25 % by 2025) nuclear phase out policy, but progress has been a little patchy, with the nuclear closures slowed, in part due to the problems it is having with its new EPR nuclear plant at Flamanville.