The CEDAR project at St. Thomas University held two different online events discussing nuclear power and the energy transition on Thursday, October 10, 2024 – daytime and evening. Everyone was invited to join us at one or both events, featuring faculty from three universities and students from St. Thomas.

Videos of both events are HERE. Below is more background info.

Evening: 8 PM Atlantic / 7 PM Eastern

More Nuclear in
Canada’s Energy Future?

Organized by York University’s Sustainable Energy Initiative and co-hosted by CEDAR. Featuring: M.V. Ramana, University of British Columbia • Susan O’Donnell & Emma Fackenthall, St. Thomas University • Laura Tanguay, York University • Mark Winfield, York University. Panel chair: Janice Harvey, St. Thomas University.

More info about this evening event
is below the daytime event description

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daytime: noon Atlantic, 11 AM Eastern

Nuclear is Not the Solution:
The Folly of Atomic Power
in the Age of Climate Change

Organized by the CEDAR project. Featuring M.V. Ramana, University of British Columbia discussing his new book with three CEDAR research assistants at St. Thomas University: Emma Fackenthall, Erin Hurley and Kate Haché.

M.V. Ramana is Professor and Simons Chair in Disarmament, Global and Human Security, School of Public Policy and Global Affairs, University of British Columbia. His book, Nuclear is Not the Solution, was published by Verso in July this year. The three discussants are undergraduate students at St. Thomas University in Fredericton, New Brunswick.

• Emma Fackenthall is pursuing a double major in English and Environment & Society.
• Erin Hurley is pursuing an honours degree in Environment and Society and a major in Journalism.
• Kate Haché is pursuing an honours degree in Economics and a major in International Relations.

Noon Atlantic • 11 AM Eastern • October 10

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Additional info about on the presentations and presenters at the evening panel:

More Nuclear in
Canada’s Energy Future?

• Nuclear Energy for Canada: Contexts and Realities
M.V. Ramana, Professor and Simons Chair in Disarmament, Global and Human Security, School of Public Policy and Global Affairs, University of British Columbia; Author, Nuclear is not the Solution (Verso Book 2024).

• Nuclear Energy in the Media
Susan O’Donnell, Primary Investigator, and Emma Fackenthall, Research Assistant, the CEDAR project (Contesting Energy Discourses through Action Research), St. Thomas University.

• No Depth in Shallow Promises: Unfolding the green narrative of nuclear into the burden of wastes
Laura Tanguay, Candidate, Ph.D. Program in Environmental Studies, Faculty of Environmental and Urban Change, York University.

• Nuclear Energy in Canada: Has a dying industry found new life?
Mark Winfield, Professor and Sustainable Energy Initiative Co-Chair, Faculty of Environmental and Urban Change, York University; Co-editor Sustainable Energy Transitions in Canada (UBC Press 2023).

8 PM Atlantic • 7 PM Eastern • October 10