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SUMMARY:Webinar: Panel Two: The Bay of Fundy: Natural Wonder or Nuclear Industry Test Site?
DESCRIPTION:\n\n\n\n\n\nEvent by RAVEN Rural Action & Voices for the Environment ( https://www.facebook.com/RAVENUNB/ ) and Coalition for Responsible Energy Development in New Brunswick ( https://www.facebook.com/crednb/ )\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nOnline: raven-research.org\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThursday, April 29, 2021 at 7:30 PM Atlantic time\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nPrice: Free\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nPublic  · Anyone on or off Facebook\n\n\n\n\n\n\nPanel Two: The Bay of Fundy:\nNatural Wonder or Nuclear Industry Test Site?\nRegistration is required.\nhttps://raven-research.org/April-webinars\nThe Bay of Fundy is one of the 7 wonders of North America, one of the richest marine ecosystems on the planet and feeding ground for millions of migratory birds.\nThe 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.\nCanadian 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.\nPoint Lepreau is located on the shared traditional and unceded territories of the Peskotomuhkati and Wolastoq Nations.\nThe panel features Indigenous leaders and academic and medical experts as presenters followed by Q&A with registrants.\nPanel:\nDr. Janice Harvey, St. Thomas University\nIntroduction • moderator\nDr. M.V. Ramana, University of British Columbia\nThe sodium-cooled and molten salt experimental nuclear reactors\nplanned for the Bay of Fundy site\nDr. Edwin Lyman, Union of Concerned Scientists (United States)\nThe experimental “recycling” of used nuclear fuel planned for the Bay of Fundy site\nChief Ron Tremblay, Wolastoq Grand Council\nResolution on Nuclear Energy and Nuclear Waste on Traditional Wolastoq Territory\n\nHosted by:\nThe RAVEN project at the University of New Brunswick\nCanadian Coalition for Nuclear Responsibility (CCNR)\nCoalition for Responsible Energy Development in New Brunswick (CRED-NB)\nInternational Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War Canada (IPPNWC)\nNB Media Co-op\nPrevent Cancer Now\nSierra Club Canada Foundation Atlantic Chapter\nSierra Club Maine Chapter\n\n\n\n
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