Canada claims $4M for satellite hunt
NZPA Ottawa, The Canadian Government; has filed a S4M claim | with the Soviet Union for ex-| penses in cleaning up radio-’ active debris from a Russian: satellite that crashed in; northern Canada a year ago. ’ The claim, announced by the External Affairs Minister (Mr Don Jamieson), covers only part of the total cost of the satellite clean-up by several Canadian Government I
11 departments and its Atomic (Energy Control Board. tj The costs are believed to i)include such items as additional travel, overtime, or '! rental of equipment, but not ■regular salaries or use of ’equipment by the Governiiment. ■ A nuc 1 e a r-powered - Cosmos satellite plunged to ■ earth in Canada’s North- : West Territories in January, f 1978, prompting a wide-ran- • ging search for satellite parti tides.
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Press, 25 January 1979, Page 9
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