PLUTONIUM IS FATAL FOREVER.
AND NO REMEDY FOR THE CLIMATE CRISIS
AND NO REMEDY FOR THE CLIMATE CRISIS
80 YEARS AGO, IN THE SPRING OF 1943, THE WW2 MANHATTAN PROJECT BEGAN TO DESIGN, BUILD AND TEST THE FIRST ATOMIC WEAPONS IN HUMAN HISTORY.
Paul McKay has won Canada's top journalism awards for investigative, magazine and business writing. He is also a past winner of the Atkinson Fellowship in Public Policy, and past Pierre Berton writer-in-residence. He has written for the Ottawa Citizen, Toronto Star, Globe and Mail, Harrowsmith, Maclean's, and CBC television and radio documentaries, and served on the advisory board of the Canadian Centre for Investigative Reporting. See below for a more detailed bio)
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Susan O’Donnell, PhD, is a social scientist, activist, and writer with expertise in technology adoption. Her interest in the climate crisis led to her research on nuclear technologies and the small modular nuclear reactors (SMRs) proposed for New Brunswick. Susan is Adjunct Professor at the University of New Brunswick and Adjunct Research Professor at St. Thomas University. Before retiring as a Senior Research Officer with the National Research Council of Canada, she was Vice-Chair of the National Research Council Research Ethics Board and a member of the Science Advisory Council of the Professional Institute of the Public Service of Canada.
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Dr. Ole Hendrickson worked for 28 years as a federal research scientist and science advisor on forestry, climate change and biodiversity issues. He has written 40 peer-reviewed journal articles and is a past Editor-in-Chief of the journal Biodiversity. He is the researcher for Concerned Citizens of Renfrew County and Area, a group advocating for the clean-up and prevention of radioactive pollution from the nuclear industry, and chair of the Sierra Club Canada Foundation's national conservation committee.
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Dr. Janice Harvey has been involved in energy policy advocacy since the 1980s, focusing on nuclear power and the transition to a renewable energy future. Much of this was in her capacity as a senior staffer at the Conservation Council of New Brunswick, where she worked for 25 years. In 2009, she joined the faculty at St. Thomas University in Fredericton, where she is Assistant Professor of Environment & Society, and facilitator of the Faculty Environmental Research Network (FERN) and the Environment Committee of the faculty union. Dr. Harvey holds a Ph.D. in Interdisciplinary Studies from the University of New Brunswick.
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Dr. Gordon Edwards is president and co-founder of the Canadian Coalition for Nuclear Responsibility, a not-for-profit corporation established in 1975. He is a retired professor of mathematics and science at Vanier College in Montreal. He has served as a consultant on nuclear issues for governmental and non-governmental bodies for over 45 years. He has been accepted as an expert witness by US and Canadian courts and tribunals and has cross-examined nuclear experts during provincial Commissions of Inquiry. He is frequently invited to testify before provincial and federal bodies, and to give major addresses in various countries. His curriculum vitae is on-line.
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MEET AUTHOR PAUL MCKAY
Paul McKay has won Canada’s top national journalism awards multiple times for investigative, feature, business and environmental reporting. Many are included in his book-length compilation: “The Art of the Expose’: Dispatches from a Rebel Reporter”.
As a recipient of the prestigious Toronto Star-sponsored Atkinson Fellowship in Public Policy he produced a report called “Plundering the Future” which profiled national environmental challenges facing Canada. His reportage has appeared in the Ottawa Citizen, Globe and Mail, Toronto Star and Vancouver Sun, and was a finalist for the Governor-General award for public service journalism. |
He is also a past Pierre Berton Writer-in-Residence, an author of seven books, a music composer, and a philanthropist who has aided NGO’s providing solar systems to poor villages in Brazil, an orphanage in Jamaica, an off-grid school in Tanzania and an Orca whale research station in British Columbia. He also founded Canada’s first solar-powered publishing company, which can be accessed at: www.simpaticosongandscript.com
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