Today CRED-NB wrote to the leaders of all the registered political parties in the province, asking them to publicly declare their support for a public consultation on radioactive waste in New Brunswick.
Tag: Nuclear
Commentary on public consultation on radioactive waste published
Today Susan O’Donnell, RAVEN project and CRED-NB member published a commentary on the need for a public consultation on radioactive waste in New Brunswick, in the Telegraph Journal. You can read it here. The article was also published in the Fredericton Daily Gleaner and the Moncton Times & Transcript.
Facts vs fictions about the new nuclear reactors promoted by the PCs and Liberals for New Brunswick
CRED-NB member Rick Cheeseman published an article today with the NB Media Coop, “Facts vs fictions about the new nuclear reactors promoted by the PCs and Liberals for New Brunswick.” The article links to a visual presentation about the new nukes. You can read his article and access the presentation from this link. The presentation is also on our Dirty Energy information page.
Plutonium in New Brunswick? The facts Higgs and Vickers are not telling us
Our Coalition is supporting calls for a public consultation on radioactive waste in New Brunswick.
Why?
Both PC leader Blaine Higgs and Liberal leader Kevin Vickers are promoting new nuclear reactors for New Brunswick during the election campaign.
The province and NB Power already gave $10 million to two nuclear companies from the US and UK to set up in Saint John. Now the PCs and Liberals are planning to give them more.
Here’s some facts that Blaine Higgs and Kevin Vickers are not sharing:
- The new nuclear projects will create fuel with plutonium that can be used to make nuclear weapons, bringing New Brunswick into a dangerous “plutonium economy“
- The waste from the new reactors will be MORE radioactive per kilo than the existing waste at Lepreau. We will have to store it somewhere in New Brunswick, as no nuclear waste storage place exists in Canada.
- Building the new reactor sites will create hundreds of tons of radioactive concrete, radioactive steel and other radioactive materials that cannot be recycled. NB taxpayers will be responsible for the disposal costs.
Also, both Blaine Higgs and Kevin Vickers are ignoring that:
- Nuclear energy is more expensive than renewable energy.
- Investment in nuclear will delay climate action.
- Nuclear projects create fewer jobs than retrofit and renewable energy jobs.
See more information about nuclear energy development on this website.
We need a public consultation on radioactive waste in New Brunswick that will get all the facts on the table. New Brunswickers need all the information so we can make informed decisions about our future.
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More info available about the new nukes from Dr. Gordon Edwards
CRED-NB formed after a visit to New Brunswick and presentations by Dr. Gordon Edwards, president of the Canadian Coalition for Nuclear Responsibility. His March 13 presentation in Fredericton was converted to a webinar when COVID-19 restrictions were announced. A video of Dr. Edwards’ presentation was published by the NB Media Co-op and is available on this website. Today we added a new link to a a transcript of his presentation. You can access the video and transcript from the video tab of this website: scroll down to the first video.
Invitation to hold public consultations in New Brunswick on national radioactive waste policy
CRED-NB sent a letter today to the federal Minister of Natural Resources, Seamus O’Regan, inviting him to hold public consultations in New Brunswick on his new national radioactive waste policy. You can read the letter here.
The original letter signed by CRED-NB and 100 other groups across Canada about the lack of a national radioactive waste policy is here.
New videos by Sam Arnold, Sustainable Energy Group Carleton County
Sam Arnold, member of CRED-NB and the Sustainable Energy Group Carleton County made two videos for the Coalition.
1: Small Modular Nuclear Reactors in NB?
2: Sam Arnold: A Sustainable Future – Powering NB without Small Modular Nuclear Reactors
Launch of awareness campaign: More Nuclear? No Thanks!
The Coalition today launched our first campaign to raise awareness of the issues involved in nuclear energy that are unreported by the mainstream media, the Government of New Brunswick, and NB Power: More Nuclear, No Thanks! We have a better idea. Read the media release here.
The link to the campaign website with further information is here.
Commentary in The Hill Times on radioactive waste
Nuclear expert Gordon Edwards teamed up with CRED-NB member Susan O’Donnell from the University of New Brunswick RAVEN project to write a commentary in The Hill Times, a news outlet read by MPs and decision-makers in Ottawa. You can read their commentary here.
Radioactive waste: a big problem for New Brunswick’s proposed new nuclear reactors
Nuclear expert Gordon Edwards and CRED-NB member Susan O’Donnell published an article today in the NB Media Co-op outlining why radioactive waste is a big problem for the proposed new nuclear reactor projects in the province. You can read the article here.