The hidden costs of nuclear power: radioactivity in the air
September 7th marked the International Day of Clean Air for blue skies, a United Nations initiative to strengthen global cooperation ...
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Chief Akagi requests public hearing to review any new governance arrangement for the Point Lepreau nuclear reactor on Peskotomuhkati homeland
On May 15, New Brunswick’s Energy Development Minister Mike Holland tabled the first reading of a bill to change the ...
New Brunswick Indigenous communities and all New Brunswickers need facts, not sales hype, about SMNRs
Governments and other nuclear proponents are failing both Indigenous and settler communities by promoting sales and publicity material about small ...
Public trust eroded: Longer 10-year licence for Lepreau nuclear reactor reduces Indigenous and community input
Groups participating in the recent hearing to extend the operating licence of the Lepreau nuclear reactor on the Bay of ...
Peskotomuhkati Chief denounces Canadian Nuclear Safety Commission’s public hearing process as a ‘feel good exercise’
During the early afternoon of May 10, 2022, Chief Hugh Akagi of the Peskotomuhkati Nation took the stand at a ...
Supreme Court decision will affect many Indigenous people living on the Canada-U.S. border
It’s not often that a Supreme Court of Canada ruling affects you, your neighbours, and your family. But that’s now ...
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The Bay of Fundy: natural wonder or nuclear industry test site? [video]
The New Brunswick and federal governments have committed more than $80M to two start-up companies to build experimental nuclear reactors ...
Residents take offense to Conservative MP’s flyer on Indigenous people
St. Andrews - A flyer about First Nations’ spending circulated by Conservative MP John Williamson irked many of his Charlotte ...
Chief Hugh Akagi of the Passamaquoddy Tribe on “Pay attention: Advice of an Elder”
On Monday, Feb. 14, 2011, STU Native Awareness Days began with a potluck social and drumming session that featured the ...
Chief Akagi: “How can we possibly allow ourselves to be convinced that there is a need for more nuclear energy?”
Note: the NB Media Co-op published this article in 2010. Chief Hugh Akagi of the Passamaquoddy Nation knows the history ...
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