New Brunswick Indigenous communities and Canadians need facts about SMNRs, not sales hype

Until the government shares facts instead of sales pitches for small modular nuclear reactors, Indigenous nations must assume that representation is not connected to people, but to industry.

Peskotomuhkati leadership has twice written to Environment Minister Steven Guilbeault, urging him to designate the SMNR projects in New Brunswick for a federal impact assessment, write Hugh Akagi and Susan O’Donnell.The Hill Times photograph by Andrew Meade

Opinion

BY HUGH AKAGI AND SUSAN O’DONNELL

September 28, 2023

FREDERICTON, N.B.—Governments and other nuclear proponents are failing both Indigenous and settler communities by promoting sales and publicity material about small modular nuclear reactors (SMNRs) instead of sharing facts by independent researchers not tied to the industr...

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