Public Forums in Saint John on Wednesday, November 30th Questioning the Restart of Point Lepreau: Lessons Learned from Fukushima and Beyond. The Facts You Won’t Get from NB Power About the Risks of Running a Refurbished Lepreau. Bring your questions and comments for our panel, which includes: Dr. Michel Duguay, Ph.D. in Nuclear Physics and [...]
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Radioactivity from Japanese reactor detected in New Brunswick
By Willi Nolan, International Institute of Concern for Public Health The public is being misled about health risks from Point Lepreau. The people of New Brunswick are as concerned about the safety of nuclear power plants as everyone else these days. Aggravating these concerns, their public utility owns a Candu reactor at the Point Lepreau [...]
CCNB Supports Call for Royal Commission into the Future of Nuclear Power and Calls for New Mandate for Lepreau Committee
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…
Visiting nuclear physicist addresses gaps in the mandate of the Select Committee on Point Lepreau
In response to the New Brunswick Government’s refusal to expand the Select Committee on Point Lepreau’s mandate to include safety, CCNB Action has invited Dr. Michel Duguay, a nuclear physicist, to comment on safety issues and lessons from the Japanese nuclear disaster that apply to the Point Lepreau refurbishment. Read more here.
David Coon vs Craig Leonard on decommissioning Lepreau
Video interviews by Charles LeBlanc, the blogger. David Coon, CCNB Craig Leonard, Minister of Energy
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 [...]
Why is Hydro-Quebec silent about the Point Lepreau fiasco?
The Mouvement sortons le Québec du nucléaire (MSQN) is asking Hydro-Quebec why they are not informing Quebeckers about the massive delays, cost overruns, and technical blunders associated with the refurbishment of Lepreau. Read more…
Pointless Lepreau Street Theatre this Wednesday!
Please join us for Pointless Lepreau Street Theatre this Wednesday, Jan. 26 at 12 noon in front of the NB Power building on the corner of King St./Carleton St.
Pointless Lepreau Reappears in New Brunswick
For immediate release Fredericton, New Brunswick January 19, 2011 Pointless Lepreau Reappears in New Brunswick White Elephant Symbolizes What the Province Doesn’t Want to Talk About The Point Lepreau nuclear generating station provides the quintessential definition of a white elephant. The aging nuclear plant opened its doors three times over budget in 1983. The Energy [...]
