CCNB Action endorses the call made today by the Canadian Coalition for Nuclear Responsibility for all federal political parties to support the creation of a Royal Commission of Inquiry into the Future of Nuclear Power in Canada in the wake of the nuclear disaster in Japan. Read more here…
CCNB Supports Call for Royal Commission into the Future of Nuclear Power and Calls for New Mandate for Lepreau Committee
A nuclear wake-up call
By Janice Harvey How should we think about the situation in Japan? One can’t imagine the scale of personal and physical devastation visited by the earthquake and tsunami, both natural disasters which, while predicted, cannot be controlled. The unfolding nuclear disaster is different. It is a man-made event, set in play by the decision to [...]
Passamaquoddy wants Point Lepreau removed
The Passamaquoddy Nation is calling for the removal of the Point Lepreau nuclear generating station. Chief Hugh Akagi said the power plant is built on Passamaquoddy land. Read more: http://www.cbc.ca/canada/new-brunswick/story/2010/09/23/nb-passamaquoddy-lepreau.html#ixzz10RiTaZZQ
The Lepreau Decomissioning Caucus, which includes the Conservation Council, the International Istitute of Concern for Public Health, the Sierra Club of Canada Atlantic Chapter and the Fundy Baykeeper, voiced their opposition to nuclear power today in Fredericton. The Caucus demanded that the political parties take a position against refurbishing Lepreau and abandon plans for a [...]
No need to build new U.S. coal or nuclear plants — FERC chairman
No new nuclear or coal plants may ever be needed in the United States, the chairman of the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission said today. “We may not need any, ever,” Jon Wellinghoff told reporters at a U.S. Energy Association forum. The FERC chairman’s comments go beyond those of other Obama administration officials, who have strongly [...]
Alternatives to nuclear available
Telegraph-Journal, Published Saturday February 14th, 2009 http://telegraphjournal.canadaeast.com/search/article/572294 I am a physics graduate from UdeM and I strongly oppose Point Lepreau’s second reactor. Our government wants to purchase the yet untested ACR-1000 nuclear reactor. After having invested big money in designing the ACR-1000, Atomic Energy Canada Ltd. is now desperately trying to sell it but no [...]
A second nuclear reactor isn’t what N.B. needs
Letter of the day, Times & Transcript, Published Wednesday February 4th, 2009 http://timestranscript.canadaeast.com/search/article/561075 To The Editor: I read with interest the Jan. 29 article in the Times & Transcript with the caption “Will second reactor benefit NBers?” The answer is a big, emphatic NO. The notion is that there will be no public money provided [...]
The glass is a quarter-full
By Janice Harvey,Telegraph-Journal, Published Wednesday February 4th, 2009 http://telegraphjournal.canadaeast.com/search/article/560712 Premier Graham and this paper have an uncanny ability to spot silver linings even in the darkest storm clouds. Perhaps rose-coloured glasses make that possible. If those glasses were the water-holding type, then their glass is always half full, even when the leak at the bottom [...]
Voices say no to uranium mining in NB
Dick Slipp March 27, 2008 My voice says, “No to Uranium mining in New Brunswick” and my voice says “No to construction of a Lepreau 2 nuclear reactor in New Brunswick.” In October 2007, I attended a public presentation at St. Thomas University by world-renowned activist Dr. Helen Caldicott. For more than 30 years, she [...]
Nuclear power: frightening glacial implications, questionable economics, and ties to weapons manufacturers
Mark D. Connell March 4, 2008 The announcement by Premier Graham recently of a proposed new nuclear reactor at Point Lepreau defies belief. The premier, it seems, has lost his moral compass. The last ice age retreated approximately 9,000 years ago. During that glacial period most of Canada, including the maritime region, was covered with [...]
