The Bay of Fundy: Natural Wonder or Nuclear Industry Test Site?
Event Date: 29th April 2021
Location: Internet 16.15 BST
The Bay of Fundy:
Natural Wonder
or Nuclear Industry Test Site?
Natural Wonder
or Nuclear Industry Test Site?
Two webinars • Monday, April 26 • Thursday, April 29
Same start time • 7:30pm Atlantic (6:30pm Eastern)
Free • Registration is required for each panel, registration links are below
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The Bay of Fundy is one of the 7 Natural Wonders of North America, one of the richest marine ecosystems on the planet and feeding ground for millions of migratory birds.
The governments of Canada and New Brunswick have funded two start-up companies to develop experimental nuclear projects beside the Bay of Fundy on the site of the Point Lepreau CANDU nuclear reactor.
Canadian regulatory agencies have no experience with these technologies and experts have raised many safety concerns. After nuclear industry lobbying, the Canadian government exempted these projects from a federal environmental impact assessment.
Point Lepreau is located on the shared traditional and unceded territories of the Peskotomuhkati and Wolastoq Nations.
Hosted by:
The RAVEN project at the University of New Brunswick
Canadian Coalition for Nuclear Responsibility (CCNR)
Coalition for Responsible Energy Development in New Brunswick (CRED-NB)
International Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War Canada (IPPNWC)
NB Media Co-op
Prevent Cancer Now
Sierra Club Canada Foundation Atlantic Chapter
Sierra Club Maine Chapter
Panel One – Registration is required, register here:
https://unbvirtualclasses.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_-RvkSs7aQTWEW4p4KNC2Ng
The Bay of Fundy:
Natural Wonder or Nuclear Industry Test Site?
Panel One: Monday, April 26, 2021
The 35th anniversary of the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant disaster
7:30 to 9pm Atlantic time (6:30 to 8pm Eastern)
Panel One:
Dr. Susan O’Donnell, University of New Brunswick
Introduction • moderator
Chief Hugh Akagi, Peskotomuhkati Nation
The Bay of Fundy and Peskotomuhkati peoples
Dr. Gordon Edwards, Canadian Coalition for Nuclear Responsibility
The Point Lepreau reactor vs. the experimental reactors for the Bay of Fundy site
Dr. Dale Dewar, Former Executive Director, Physicians for Global Survival
Chernobyl: What we learned about the health impacts from a nuclear disaster
Panel Two – Registration is required, register here:
https://unbvirtualclasses.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_fm_WiiS5QzulNiFv0I_7ZA
The Bay of Fundy:
Natural Wonder or Nuclear Industry Test Site?
Panel Two: Thursday, April 29, 2021
7:30 to 9pm Atlantic time (6:30 to 8pm Eastern)
Panel Two:
Dr. Janice Harvey, St. Thomas University
Introduction • moderator
Dr. M.V. Ramana, University of British Columbia
The sodium-cooled and molten salt experimental nuclear reactors
planned for the Bay of Fundy site
Dr. Edwin Lyman, Union of Concerned Scientists (United States)
The experimental “recycling” of used nuclear fuel planned for the Bay of Fundy site
Chief Ron Tremblay, Wolastoq Grand Council
Resolution on Nuclear Energy and Nuclear Waste on Traditional Wolastoq Territory