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Launch of Research Report and Video Highlighting Opposition by Indigenous Nations to Nuclear Projects

November 29, 2024

  • 1:22 PM

CEDAR

 

2 pm

Dawn Russell Student Lounge

 

Speakers

  • Elder Alma Brooks, Wolastoq Grand Council

  • Chief Hugh Akagi, Peskotomuhkati Nation at Skutik

  • Dr. Nauman Farooqi, President and Vice-Chancellor, ¶¡Ïã³ÉÈËÉçÇø

  • Jenica Atwin, MP for Fredericton and Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister of Indigenous Services Canada

  • David Coon, MLA for Fredericton-Lincoln

  • Report co-authors: Robert Atwin, Peskotomuhkati Recognition Group Inc. and Dr. Susan O'Donnell, Adjunct Research Professor, ¶¡Ïã³ÉÈËÉçÇø

This event will see the launch of report and video co-published by the Passamaquoddy Recognition Group Inc. (PRGI) and the CEDAR project at ¶¡Ïã³ÉÈËÉçÇø.

Indigenous communities continue to speak up about nuclear energy and radioactive waste. The report and video were produced to amplify their voices.

The report and the video were co-published by the Passamaquoddy Recognition Group and the CEDAR project (Contesting Energy Discourses through Action Research) at ¶¡Ïã³ÉÈËÉçÇø in Fredericton. The CEDAR project is supported by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council Canada (SSHRC).