Climate action expert and CRED-NB Champion Louise Comeau presented on a panel on how to get a “yes” from communities on wind farms and transmission lines. The session was excellent and worth a watch if you missed it. Organized by Re.Climate, the webinar recording is HERE.
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Canadian energy exports should not include electricity generated by nuclear energy
The Parliamentary Standing Committee on Natural Resources is currently studying Canadian Energy Exports. CRED-NB submitted a brief to the MPs on the committee. CRED’s position: Canadian energy exports should not include electricity generated by nuclear energy because of the heavy costs borne by Canadians. Read our submitted brief HERE.
Does SMR stand for Spending Money Recklessly?
A small modular nuclear reactor (SMR) across the country is designed to generate 300 megawatts (MW) of electricity or less, compared to Canada’s existing CANDU power reactors which generate 500 MW or more. Proponents claim that SMRs will decarbonize the electricity grid in New Brunswick and other provinces. So, how is Canada’s SMR strategy going, in New Brunswick and across the country?
CRED-NB core member Susan O’Donnell and colleague M.V. Ramana and the CEDAR project at St. Thomas University published a new report assessing SMR development. The report, the launch webinar video, and a commentary by the authors published in The Energy Mix is HERE.
Concerns about the management of Canadian Nuclear Laboratories by U.S. companies
A House of Commons committee is currently studying the management of Canada’s nuclear laboratories at Chalk River. The nuclear research site is run by Canadian Nuclear Laboratories (CNL).
Under a new contract signed at the end of 2025, CNL is managed by a consortium of U.S. companies with ties to the weapons industry. CRED-NB outlined our concerns in a brief filed today with the Parliamentary committee. Read it HERE.
Why is NB Power hiding the risks of transporting radioactive waste?
NB Power and nuclear industry partners want to build a radioactive waste pit in Northwestern Ontario. But they are hiding the risks of transporting the waste more than 2,900 km from Point Lepreau through communities in New Brunswick, Quebec and Ontario.
Current plans envision more than 2,100 transport packages of New Brunswick’s used nuclear fuel travelling approximately 2,900 kilometres, through public roads in the province and across Canada, over a period of 10 to 15 years.
Nuclear Waste Management Organization (NWMO, including NB Power) – filed their official project plan but did NOT include the 2,900 km drive from Point Lepreau. Why? To stop the public from raising concerns about it.
NB groups raise concern about nuclear waste proposal
CRED-NB and three other groups in the province, along with 70 other groups across Canada signed a letter sent Dec. 16 to Prime Minister Carney and two federal cabinet ministers asking them to oversee the nuclear industry’s proposal for radioactive waste burial in Northwestern Ontario.
NB Power is a member of the industry’s Nuclear Waste Management Organization (NWMO) proposing the project, opposed by the Chiefs in Assembly of Treaty 3, Nishnawbi Aski Nation, Anishnabek Nation and the Chiefs of Ontario.
The letter raises particular concern with the NWMO plan to exclude the transport of radioactive waste (including across roads in New Brunswick) from the Impact Assessment of the project. Read the letter HERE.
Atlantic Economic Panel missing an environmental expert
A new Atlantic Economic Panel was announced, a “private-sector-led initiative established to catalyze economic transformation in Atlantic Canada.” The announcement makes no mention of how the economy is expected to flourish without considering the impact that greenhouse gas-emitting projects will have on the climate and the natural world.
CRED-NB core member Sam Arnold of the Sustainable Energy Group – Carleton published a critical commentary in the NB Media Co-op, HERE. His commentary points out that an environmental expert is needed. Business and environmental experts must work in concert to safeguard a sustainable economic future for present and future generations – and for nature.
Letter: We need transparent and responsible management of radioactive waste
CRED-NB and nearly 100 other groups and prominent individuals signed a letter to express concern that Canadian Nuclear Laboratories (CNL) has decided to consolidate radioactive waste at the Chalk River Laboratories site without consultation with First Nations or the public, and without parliamentary debate. Canadian Nuclear Laboratories (CNL) is only a private contractor, not a government agency. Read the letter HERE.
Letter to Banks and Pension Funds: Don’t Provide Funding to Ksi Lisims LNG
CRED-NB is one of 128 Indigenous groups and organizations across the country that signed a letter in support of the Gitanyow Hereditary Chiefs in British Columbia who oppose a proposed LNG project in their homeland.
The letter alerts banks and pension funds about the significant negative impacts and risks posed to the Gitanyow people and the natural resources on which they rely from the proposed Ksi Lisims liquefied natural gas project. Read the letter HERE.
Statement from 41 Civil Society Organizations Opposing a Northwest Coast Oil Pipeline and Tanker Project
On Nov. 26, CRED-NB and 40 other civil society organizations across the country signed a joint declaration to secure a safe climate system, protect marine and freshwater and uphold Indigenous rights and sovereignty.
We stand with Coastal First Nations who oppose a northwest coast crude oil pipeline and tankers project. The north Pacific coastal ecosystem is globally significant and a major economic driver in the region. The waters oil tankers would navigate are treacherous and the consequences of a catastrophic oil spill are unacceptable.
The Oil Tanker Moratorium Act is the result of decades of work by Indigenous and non-Indigenous communities to protect the marine environment and stands as a legal symbol of Crown-Indigenous reconciliation.
Read the full statement HERE.