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Belledune Port SMR announcement: Public relations stunt to promote a “dirty, dangerous distraction from climate action”
For immediate release – November 28, 2022 Belledune Port SMR announcement: Public relations stunt to promote a “dirty, dangerous distraction from climate action” Today the Belledune Port Authority in New Brunswick announced plans to use an ARC-100 reactor to generate heat and power for industrial users at the port. NB Power is planning to apply…
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No legitimate reason to support the controversial nuclear technology planned for New Brunswick
NB Power plans to develop new nuclear reactors at Point Lepreau that will use a controversial technology with implications for global security. Provincial and federal government support for this technology–called reprocessing–should end. Separation of plutonium massively increases risk of nuclear weapons proliferation. Read the commentary by Susan O’Donnell (CRED-NB core member) and University of British…
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How can we encourage wind energy projects to succeed?
The Conservation Council of New Brunswick (CCNB) released the results of their year-long study to identify the factors that encourage successful wind energy projects. The research focused a wind energy project that failed to get off the ground in northern New Brunswick. Check out the report and more information on the CCNB website, HERE.
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Energy technologies considered for New Brunswick are not clean, timely or affordable
Wind, solar and existing hydro are cheaper, cleaner, and ready to go, reducing our carbon emissions in a few years, not in a decade or two. Costly unproven projects like SMRs and hydrogen commit our money to rising costs and delayed payback. CRED core members Sam Arnold (NBASGA) and Ann McAllister (Council of Canadians Saint…
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Pull the plug on nuclear subsidies
Excellent article by Ole Hendrickson in the latest issue of Rabble:https://rabble.ca/columnists/pull-the-plug-on-nuclear-subsidies/ Some quotes from the article: New Brunswick Power, despite being awash in debt, is also promoting two “next generation” SMRs at its Point Lepreau reactor site. Both the provincial and federal governments have provided multi-million-dollar grants, ignoring warnings that these SMR designs, which would be fuelled by plutonium, have…
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Why a federal impact assessment for the New Brunswick SMRs?
This morning on CBC radio, Canadian Environmental Law Association counsel Kerrie Blaise explained why the federal government needs to designate the ARC-100 SMR (small modular nuclear reactor) for a federal impact assessment. Kerrie explained that only the wide scope of a federal IA will give the public an opportunity to have many of their questions…
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Contact the Impact Assessment Agency of Canada!
The Impact Assessment Agency of Canada is currently reviewing CRED-NB’s request to subject the first-of-its-kind SMR demonstration project for Point Lepreau for an impact assessment. If you support our request, contact the agency directly and let them know. The direct email for this file is: Reactor-Reacteur@iaac-aeic.gc.ca Thanks for your support!
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Decolonial Solidarity Moncton- Kill the Drill: Rally Nov. 5
Rallies will be held across Canada on Saturday Nov. 5 in solidarity with the Wet’suwet’en people and the defense of their land from a proposed gas pipeline. The Coastal Gaslink (CGL) pipeline would transport fracked natural gas across Wet’suwet’en territory to a proposed export terminal in Kitimat, BC. The Climate Justice Coalition in the Moncton region is…
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Letter to Prime Minister Trudeau re nuclear waste policy and strategy
CRED-NB is one of 83 groups that today wrote to the Prime Minister and the federal Minister of Natural Resources urging them to ensure that radioactive waste strategies are established subsequent to a new policy on radioactive waste and decommissioning and are developed with the full engagement of the Canadian public and Indigenous peoples. Our…
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Mi’gmaq and Wolastoqiyik / Walastakwiyik leaders remain opposed to reopening fracking exploration
“Earlier this week, the Government of New Brunswick delivered its speech from the throne to open a new session of the legislature. The speech did not respectfully reflect that it was delivered on the unceded and unsurrendered territory of the Mi’kmaq and Wolastoqey peoples, rather it adopted Higgs’ government’s new revisionist land acknowledgement which fails…
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