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​Welcome to the "Not the Nuclear Lobby" page with info on events during our week in Ottawa, April 29-May 2, 2024


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Following on from our successful events in 2023, the national Not The Nuclear Lobby is returning to Ottawa from April 29 to May 2, 2024. We will be meeting with MPs and their staff on Parliament Hill to share important information about nuclear energy. 
Our key themes this year are:
  • Developing new nuclear reactors will delay climate action; nuclear is not a climate solution
  • Parliamentarians should oversee nuclear waste management and nuclear site decommissioning
  • Parliament should ban reprocessing nuclear fuel waste
With local collaborators, we’ve also organized some public events:
Monday, April 29, 6:30 PM (pay what you can)
Film Screening Radioactive – The Women of Three Mile Island​
Tuesday, April 30, 7 PM (free)
Workshop reading of the play The Children 
Wednesday, May 1, 7 PM (free)
Community Forum: Canada’s Nuclear Future – Renaissance or Relic?

Read our information overview to Members of Parliament in English HERE or in French HERE. Lisez notre aperçu des députés ICI.
Our backgrounder on radioactive waste is HERE.  Notre note d'information sur les déchets radioactifs est ICI

Monday, April 29, 6:30 PM
(doors open 6 PM)
Film Screening
Mayfair Theatre, 1074 Bank Street, Ottawa
Radioactive – The Women of Three Mile Island

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RADIOACTIVE: THE WOMEN OF THREE MILE ISLAND is a stunning award-winning film. It asks the important question: What does it mean to live with nuclear energy? First-time filmmaker Heidi Hutner answers this question with solid research and interviews with scientists, engineers, whistleblowers, physicians, and most importantly with the victims themselves.       
JON BOWERMASTER,  FILMMAKER
Pay what you can. ​Hosted by Council of Canadians Ottawa Chapter and Sierra Club Canada, sponsored by Patagonia.

Tuesday, April 30, 7 PM
Workshop reading of the play The Children

Please join us to hear a reading of and discuss an intriguing play about nuclear energy and its fallout.

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The play reading will be followed by an audience discussion with the actors and citizen experts critical of Canada’s race to embrace nuclear energy. Then join us for a reception. 
A staged reading by outstanding actors from Ottawa’s Bear & Co. ​ Please RSVP HERE
THIS IS A FREE EVENT
​Great Canadian Theatre Company, 1233 Wellington St. W, Ottawa, Doors open – 6:30 PM
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The Children, Winner of the U.K. Writers' Guild Award for Best Play (2018)
The Children by Lucy Kirkwood provokes and intrigues. There has been an accident at a nearby nuclear plant. In the recovery, three retired nuclear physicists – long-time friends – confront an impossible question: What is the cost of love? “Somewhat menacing, and often funny.” –Time Out London, Director: Eleanor Crowder, Ensemble: Hugh Neilson, Beverley Wolfe and Rachel Eugster  Stage Manager: RJ Mayo  

Wednesday, May 1, 7 PM
Forum: Canada’s Nuclear Future – Renaissance or Relic?

Join us for a community forum hosted by Seniors for Climate Action Now! - Ottawa
Featuring a panel of experts in discussion with the audience. This is a hybrid event, both in-person and online. 
6:30 PM reception
7 – 9 PM forum


St. James United Church
650 Lyon Street South, in the Glebe, Ottawa
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Register HERE for the  in-person event
Register HERE for the on-line event
Over the last four years, federal and provincial governments across the country have given more than a billion dollars to new small (and large) nuclear reactor projects. Is this a wise use of tax dollars? How do renewables compare in price, safety and security, and are they up to the task of meeting all of Canada’s future electricity needs? 
  • Dr. Michael Poellet of the Inter-Church Uranium Committee Educational Cooperative (SK) will address the wreckage of uranium mining in Saskatchewan
  • Angela Bischoff of Ontario Clean Air Alliance (ON) will discuss the high financial burden of the nuclear industry and alternatives
  • Dr. Gordon Edwards of Canadian Coalition for Nuclear Responsibility (QC) will discuss the environmental dangers and medical aspects of nuclear power
  • Dr. Susan O’Donnell of the Coalition for Responsible Energy Development (NB) will discuss nuclear fuel reprocessing and the connection between nuclear fuel waste and weapons proliferation
  • Brennain Lloyd of Northwatch (ON) will discuss the problems of nuclear waste, industry plans and public opposition

​The not-the-nuclear lobby is a collaboration by groups across the country, including: the Canadian Coalition for Nuclear Responsibility, Sierra Club Canada Foundation, Coalition for Responsible Energy Development in New Brunswick, Northwatch, Ontario Clean Air Alliance,  Concerned Citizens of Renfrew County and Area, Interchurch Uranium Educational Co-operative,  International Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War Canada,  Coalition for a Clean Green Saskatchewan,  Protect our Waterways - No Nuclear Waste, The Council of Canadians, The Society of High Prairie Regional Environmental Action Committee,  Prevent Cancer Now,  Legal Advocates for Nature’s Defence (LAND),  Ralliement contre la pollution radioactive,  Regroupement des organismes environnementaux en énergie (ROEÉ), and Seniors For Climate Action Now (SCAN! Ottawa)
RECAP: Read about the Not the Nuclear Lobby in Ottawa April 2023 HERE
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