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Two new nuclear reactors for NB with no adequate policy on radioactive waste in place
PC leader Blaine Higgs says federal funding to build two new nuclear reactors in New Brunswick is confirmed and will be announced after the election. The province and NB Power have already given $10 million to start the development of the nuclear projects. Liberal leader Kevin Vickers is also supporting the plans to build the new reactors. Yet there is no federal plan or strategy in place for dealing with the new kinds of radioactive wastes that will be produced by these new reactors.
Read the article in the NB Media Co-op by Susan O’Donnell of the RAVEN project and Gordon Edwards of the Canadian Coalition for Nuclear Responsibility.
SMRs: The Rhetoric and the Reality
Rick Cheeseman of the VOICES for Sustainable Environments and Communities, and core member of CRED-NB created a visual presentation, SMRs: The Rhetoric and The Reality. It presents the numerous claims made by supporters of SMRs in the context of actual research. Rick’s presentation can be viewed here.
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.
From Colombia to New Brunswick: What does a just energy transition look like for where “blood coal” is extracted and burned?
Cortney MacDonnell, a UNB student working with CRED-NB member RAVEN, published a story today about the communities affected by coal mining in Columbia. The coal is shipped to Canada, where it is burned in the NB Power Belledune plant in northern New Brunswick. You can read Cortney’s story here.
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.
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
NB Power’s renewable energy claims disputed
RAVEN’s environmental action reporter Cortney MacDonnell published a story today featuring a report by MGM Solar Solutions. The report states that NB Power claims to be supplying New Brunswick with over 40 percent renewable energy but a local solar firm says that is not the case. You can read the article 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.