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Letter on Government of Canada Role in Development of Radioactive Waste Management Strategy

by Julia HambletonNovember 1, 2022January 30, 2023

83 civil society organizations, including CELA, have signed a letter addressed to Prime Minster Justin Trudeau and Minister of Natural Resources, Jonathan Wilkinson voicing concerns about the Draft Integrated Strategy for Radioactive Waste Management (ISRW) issued by the Nuclear Waste Management Organization (NWMO).

Media Release: Federal government delays climate action, funding for new nuclear development is opposed by Indigenous, civil society and public interest groups

by Julia HambletonMarch 17, 2022January 30, 2023

The Government of Canada is further delaying climate action with an announcement of $27.2 million in funding today to develop a Small Modular Nuclear Reactor (SMR). There is no guarantee SMRs will ever produce energy in a safe and reliable manner in Canada.

Ethical Investment Decisions for the Climate

by Julia HambletonFebruary 16, 2022January 30, 2023

78 Public Interest groups, including CELA, are calling on Canada’s biggest banks to drop investments in nuclear power, including so-called Small Modular Reactors (SMRs) from their fossil-free and ESG* investment portfolios.

Media Release: 70 groups call for a moratorium on new nuclear to be included in cabinet mandate letters

by Julia HambletonOctober 5, 2021January 30, 2023

Seventy groups and organizations have called on the Prime Minister to include a moratorium on federal funding for nuclear expansion in the mandate letters to cabinet. Prime Minister Trudeau is expected to announce his new cabinet next week.

Media Release: City of Winnipeg Says Yes to the Nuclear Ban

by Julia HambletonJune 24, 2021January 30, 2023

Winnipeg City Council voted in favour of a resolution supporting the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons (TPNW) following a youth-led initiative advocating for the International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons’ (ICAN) Cities Appeal. Winnipeg joins Toronto, Vancouver, Halifax, Victoria, Montréal and nine other Canadian municipalities in endorsing the ICAN Cities Appeal.

CELA and Durham Nuclear Awareness Written Intervention to CNSC for OPG’s site licence renewal at Darlington

by Julia HambletonMay 4, 2021January 30, 2023

Bait-and-switch: CELA and DNA are intervening before the CNSC arguing OPG’s request for a licence renewal of its Darlington site is a licence to site one of Canada’s first ever Small Modular Reactors (SMRs) in Durham Region. If the CNSC approves OPG’s…

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