The Coalition for Responsible Energy Development in New Brunswick (CRED-NB) is fighting for a renewable energy future without fossil fuels or nuclear energy on our electricity grid. New Brunswick can meet its future energy needs with renewable energy and storage technologies.
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Our mission is to advocate for responsible energy development in New Brunswick to address the climate crisis using four guidelines:
- Reduce the demand for energy in New Brunswick by eliminating energy waste and maximizing energy efficiency.
- Increase the electricity generated in New Brunswick by low cost renewable energy with storage.
- Eliminate the development of fossil fuel energy and phase out nuclear energy in New Brunswick. Non-renewable energy is not required because renewable energy with storage is ready now.
- Support solidarity actions with communities experiencing harmful impacts of our energy choices in New Brunswick, across Canada and globally.
CRED-NB is a member of the New Brunswick Environmental Network and Climate Action Network Canada and Protect the Chignecto Isthmus Coalition.
Our coalition formed in response to the decision by the New Brunswick government and our public utility NB Power to promote and invest in false solutions to the climate crisis: next generation nukes (so-called “small modular nuclear reactors,” or “SMRs”) rather than sustainable renewable energy. Peer-reviewed research by experts not funded by the nuclear industry has found that SMRs are not climate crisis solutions.
Now, the government and NB Power are promoting a new fossil gas plant development in the province and, again, sidelining renewable energy and storage options.
Our website provides information about energy development in New Brunswick that is missing from the Government of New Brunswick and NB Power websites.
We invite New Brunswick residents to inform themselves about the drawbacks of polluting nuclear and fossil fuel energy and the advantages of the alternative: rigorous energy efficiency, renewable energy generation, and developing the smart grid and storage capacity using technologies that are less harmful to the earth and our health.
Our “ask” is to phase out electricity generated from fossil fuels and nuclear fission and to invest in renewable energy, conservation and the smart grid. We want residents of New Brunswick to avoid exposure to toxins from fossil fuels and radioactive waste and emissions that can also expose others outside the province, and to avoid having our public funds and other resources wasted on experimental nuclear technology.
Instead, we want everyone in our province to reap the benefits of local employment, community prosperity, and the capacity to be players in the emerging global low-carbon nuclear-free renewable energy economy.