The Citizens’ Nuclear Information Centre (CNIC) in Japan released a statement today to mark the 11-year anniversary of the Fukushima Nuclear Power Station accident. Visit their website, HERE.
Tag: Other Org Action
Fossil and nuclear energy regimes threaten global security
Janice Harvey, representative on CRED-NB for the Environment & Society Program at St. Thomas University, is the author of this commentary in The Hill Times, and republished in the NB Media Co-op, HERE.
Climate Change Won’t Wait for Politics
Geopolitical events are persuading some governments to re-invest in fossil fuel infrastructure. Jim Emberger from the New Brunswick Anti-Shale Gas Alliance (NBASGA, a CRED-NB core group) wrote a letter in response to a commentary in Brunswick news calling for more fossil fuel extraction in Canada. He writes:
Climate change is happening so rapidly that many plants and animals may not be able to adapt or move in time to survive. Crop losses due to climate related weather, and diseases due to invasive species, whose expansion is enabled by warmer conditions, are all on the rise.
None of these trends cares a whit about Ukraine, or Canada’s fossil fuel industry. The laws of physics do not respond to political and economic events, nor can you bargain with them. If we burn more fossil fuels – the climate will warm – period.
Read the letter HERE, on the NBASGA website.
New IPCC report available
The latest report from the IPCC (Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change) was published on Feb. 28. The Conservation Council of New Brunswick published a story in the NB Media Co-op with a link to the report, HERE.
Video: Decarbonization, Lock-in and Transition in Eastern Canada
Do you know what carbon “lock-in” is, and how it keeps us tied to fossil fuel infrastructure in New Brunswick? If not, check out this video by JP Sapinski, professor of environmental studies at Université de Moncton. The story with the video link was published by the NB Media Co-op, HERE.
The video is Sapinski’s a zoom presentation, hosted by the Environment & Society program at St. Thomas University and the RAVEN project at the University of New Brunswick (both CRED-NB core members).
Impacts of nuclear waste on the environment
Gail Wylie represents the Council of Canadians Fredericton chapter on the CRED-NB core group. This week, Gail prepared and submitted a comprehensive review of the governance of nuclear waste in Canada and its impacts on the environment to the Parliamentary committee on nuclear waste management. You can read it HERE.
Green Budget Coalition submission
The Green Budget Coalition (GBC) is 23 leading Canadian environmental organizations working together to present an analysis of the most pressing issues regarding environmental sustainability in Canada. Every year, the GBC makes a consolidated annual set of recommendations to the federal government regarding strategic fiscal and budgetary opportunities.
The report for the federal 2022 budget is HERE. Check out the Recommendation on page 47: Eliminate federal funding and reject calls to rollback accident liability for SMRs, and reallocate investments towards renewable technologies that are proven, socially acceptable and scalable now.
New report: Towards a Clean Atlantic Grid
The Pembina Institute published a report in January that will interest anyone looking for information about how to transform our electricity grid using real clean energy (not dirty nuclear or fossil fuels). Check it out HERE.
In this study, they examined the cost of providing reliable electricity in New Brunswick and Nova Scotia using balanced mixes of clean energy technologies and resources (clean energy portfolios) compared against natural gas and nuclear power plants, which are currently proposed as the default replacement for coal. Clean energy portfolios included a mix of commercially available zero-carbon electricity supply and demand management options, including solar, wind, battery storage, energy efficiency, demand flexibility, and imported hydroelectricity. In all cases, they found that clean energy portfolios provide the same services as gas and nuclear power plants at a lower cost per unit of energy over the lifetime of the energy source, even without reliance on imported hydroelectricity
What are the alternatives to more nuclear at Point Lepreau?
Today the RAVEN project (and CRED-NB core member) launched its report, The Future of Point Lepreau: Option B.
The report considers climate justice, respecting Indigenous visions, and valuing the expertise of the environmental community. Option B is a response to the interlinked energy, climate, social and economic equity crises we are experiencing.
Download the report or read the NB Media Co-op story, HERE.
The future of Point Lepreau: Option B
The RAVEN project, a CRED-NB core member group, released its new report, The Future of Point Lepreau: Option B.
The report considers climate justice, respecting Indigenous visions, and valuing the expertise of the environmental community. Option B is a response to the concurrent and interlinked energy, climate, social and economic equity crises we are all experiencing.
Download the report or read the NB Media Co-op story, HERE.