Author: CREDNB

CRED-NB member Dr. Susan O’Donnell participated in a panel event last week organized by the Ontario Clean Air Alliance (OCAA). The panel followed a discussion with the maker of the film: The Atom: A Love Affair.

The OCAA organized a Canadian screening of the film that is open for another week, till July 11. It’s a high-quality feature length film that explains the history of nuclear power, including interviews with key people involved. Tickets cost $10. Access to the film is HERE.

At the panel, Susan spoke about SMNRs: who is pushing them and why should we care? You can view the video of her presentation on YouTube (11 minutes):

US experts are raising the alarm about the Moltex plans to extract plutonium at Point Lepreau on the Bay of Fundy. Read the new article published by the NB Media Co-op, here.

RAVEN researcher Susan O’Donnell, a member of CRED-NB, was interviewed in an article published today by The Tyee. The story was prompted after nine US experts sent a letter to Prime Minister Trudeau about the nuclear weapons proliferation implications of the federal government’s support for the Moltex project in New Brunswick. You can read it here.

CRED-NB has been working with Nuclear Waste Watch and a national committee of civil society groups. We have ID’d key points we want to see in the new federal policy:

• No importing of radioactive waste from other countries
  
• No plutonium extraction (reprocessing or pyro-processing) of radioactive fuel waste
  
• Canada needs an independent agency, arms-length from government and industry, to oversee radioactive waste management and decommissioning
  
• Radioactive waste should NOT be abandoned; policy should direct perpetual care and monitoring
  
• Government and industry must be open and transparent in the management of radioactive waste and its transportation
  
• Indigenous peoples and all Canadians have a right to access information, to engage in decision-making, and to know the risks

The APTN published a story this week about the nuclear projects planned for Point Lepreau on the Bay of Fundy.

In the article, Chief Hugh Akagi “says he hasn’t been formally consulted – but has been to a presentations put on by NB Power about the SMR project. He says he is unlikely he’ll ever give it his support.”

“Until I can have an assurance that the impact on the future is zero,” says Akagi, “I don’t want to 100 years, 200 years is still seven generations. I want zero impact.”

You can read the full APTN article HERE.

Our core Coalition member, the Sierra Club Canada Foundation Atlantic Chapter, is a registered charity. They are part of our Coalition’s campaign to stop the development of SMRs (SMNRs) in New Brunswick. Click HERE to find out more about donating to CRED-NB and receiving a tax credit.

The Energy Mix published an excellent feature by Paul McKay, a long-time anti-nuclear activist who has researched the history of design problems with CANDU reactors. Did you know that the US will not permit CANDU reactors in their country because of a particular design flaw?

You can read the article HERE.

The Climate Action Team at Hampton High School (HHS) are not only activists but also allies to Indigenous peoples. Today in the Legislative Assembly of New Brunswick, MLA Megan Mitton (Green Party, Memramcook-Tantramar) tabled a petition from HHS students in support of the Wolastoq Grand Council resolution against nuclear energy development and nuclear waste.

Read the story HERE, in the NB Media Co-op.

CRED-NB core member the Sierra Club Canada Foundation, Atlantic Chapter, is hiring!

Of the four positions open for the Community Climate Change Outreach Coordinator/Communications, one is located in Fredericton.

Check out the job posting here:

CRED-NB co-hosted two panel presentations about the proposed nuclear projects this week, drawing hundreds of attendees from New Brunswick, across Canada and the US and Europe.

Videos of both presentations were published today by the NB Media Co-op. Access them here.