Panel One: The Bay of Fundy: Natural Wonder or Nuclear Industry Test Site?

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Panel One: The Bay of Fundy:

Natural Wonder or Nuclear Industry Test Site?

Free • Registration is required.
https://raven-research.org/April-webinars

Organized by the RAVEN project at the University of New Brunswick

This event date is the 35th anniversary of the Chernobyl disaster.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.The panel features Indigenous leaders and academic and medical experts as presenters followed by Q&A with registrants.

Panel One:Dr. Susan O’Donnell, University of New Brunswick
Introduction • moderatorChief Hugh Akagi, Peskotomuhkati Nation
The Bay of Fundy and Peskotomuhkati peoplesDr. Gordon Edwards, Canadian Coalition for Nuclear Responsibility
The Point Lepreau reactor vs. the experimental reactors for the Bay of Fundy siteDr. Dale Dewar, Former Executive Director, Physicians for Global Survival

Chernobyl: What we learned about the health impacts from a nuclear disaster

Free • Registration is required.
https://raven-research.org/April-webinars

Organized by the RAVEN project at the University of New Brunswick