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Nuclear-based fantasies are holding back real climate action
SMR Education Task Force For immediate release June 22, 2023 Version française ici Nuclear-based fantasies are holding back real climate action Today a network of groups across Canada announces the launch of the SMR Education Task Force to share under-reported facts about small modular nuclear reactors (SMRs) with members of Parliament and provincial legislatures. We…
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June 28: Emergency day of action rally in Moncton
Note: On June 29, The NB Media Co-op published a story and video about this event, HERE. The Climate Justice Coalition (Moncton) and Extinction Rebellion NB are collaborating with 350.org to organize a Moncton rally for the national day of emergency action: Wednesday, June 28, 12:00 PM Outside the office of MP Ginette Petitpas Taylor…
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CRED joins call to stop trying to bring fracking to New Brunswick
CRED-NB is one of 47 groups that sent a solidarity statement to every MLA in New Brunswick, calling for the government to immediately halt its drive to bring a shale gas industry to the province. The statement was issued by the Conservation Council of New Brunswick and two CRED core coalition members – the Sierra…
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Civil society groups and MPs reject industry hype about Canada’s “glowing” nuclear future
le français suit OTTAWA, April 25, 2023—Green Party leader Elizabeth May, Liberal MP Jenica Atwin, Bloc Québécois MP Mario Simard and NDP MP Alexandre Boulerice joined with representatives from civil society today to express serious concerns about an expansion of nuclear energy and the development of small modular nuclear reactors (SMRs). In a non-partisan press…
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CRED-NB at media event in Ottawa with four MPs
This week groups across Canada are in Ottawa for the not-the-nuclear-lobby. The list of public events, including the rally today at 10am at the Centennial Flame, is HERE. Archive: One event included a a press conference about SMRs with four Members of Parliament, see below for the list of participants. The event was held at…
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No to shale gas development
Any suggestion to now begin a shale gas industry (designed to last for decades) directly contradicts the data, and constitutes an intellectual, not to mention moral, failure. Read the latest editorial by Jim Emberger from CRED-NB core member the New Brunswick Anti-Shale Gas Alliance (NBASGA). Jim writes: “Fracking pollutes both ground and drinking water. It…
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CRED-NB and the Not the Nuclear Lobby in Ottawa
CRED-NB will be represented in a “Not the Nuclear Lobby” week in Ottawa, April 24-28. Join us for several in person or virtual public events! We will meet with activists from across Canada to lobby Members of Parliament, meet with think-tanks and NGOs, and participate in events for the public to tell the other side…
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Why is NB Power hiding info about the ARC-100 nuclear project on the Bay of Fundy? Let’s find out with a federal impact assessment. Click here for more info and to send a support letter!
Four groups – the Sierra Club Canada Foundation, We the Nuclear Free North, Protect Our Waterways, and the Coalition for Responsible Energy Development in New Brunswick – are asking federal Environment Minister Steven Guilbeault to designate the ARC-100 project for a federal impact assessment. NB Power wants to limit public review of the ARC-100 nuclear…
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New Brunswick government and NB Power misleading the public about plan for ARC-100 radioactive waste
Le français suit… The Coalition for Responsible Energy Development in New Brunswick (CRED-NB) is rebuking the provincial government and the public utility NB Power for hiding the truth about a controversial plan for high-level nuclear waste from the proposed ARC-100 nuclear reactor. The province has given $25 million to the ARC company to develop its…
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Civil Society Groups Reject Canada’s Radioactive Waste Policy
Ottawa – Civil society groups are expressing profound disappointment in the federal government’s recently released radioactive waste policy, after Natural Resources Canada quietly posted the final policy to a government website on Friday morning. Organizations who were intensively engaged in the policy development process between November 2020 and May 2022 are calling the policy a…
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