General Links about EFN
(Environmentalists for Nuclear Energy)

Introduction
Why is EFN-Canada / EPEN-Canada important?
Location
Media articles in Cobourg
EFN Interventions
EFN Financial Statements

Introduction

Environmentalists for Nuclear Energy (Canada) Inc. / Écologistes Pour l'Énergie Nucléaire (Canada) Inc. [EFN-Canada/EPEN-Canada] was federally incorporated in February 2006. See the official website of EFN-Canada. The organization is affiliated with an international organization (EFN-International) headquartered in Paris France and having some 8,000 members and supporters, throughout the world in 56 countries, on five continents.

Why is EFN-Canada / EPEN-Canada important?

Everywhere one looks in Canada today, environmental groups have a strong but, we believe, misinformed reaction against nuclear energy (Tom Adams, David Suzuki, Maurice Strong, etc. etc.). It is surely important to have a highly visible environmentalist group (visible to the Canadian public, to the media, and to Canadian politicians) that takes the opposite viewpoint. Since EFN-International already exists, how much better for this Canadian profile to be tied to an international movement!

The "objects" of EFN-Canada are:

to provide complete and straightforward information about energy and the environment
to make known the advantages of nuclear energy, and especially the environmental benefits;
to bring together persons favouring the use of nuclear energy for peaceful purposes with respect for the environment and with proper management of nuclear waste.
to achieve its purposes through the publication of books, pamphlets and CD-ROM's; the conduct of lectures to the public; the participation in public and written debate; the contribution of scientific, technical, and generally educational communications to the press, to the audio-visual media, and to other publics; the creation, operation and maintenance of multilingual internet sites; and appearances at public and professional fairs and exhibitions.

Location

The directors of EFN-Canada are spread across the country (for info on our directors, see the EFN-Canada official website). But our head office is currently located in Cobourg, Ontario -- simply because that's where I (Rod Anderson), the current acting-president of EFN-Canada, reside. In Cobourg Zircatec (a Cameco subsidiary) has a metal fabrication plant making zirconium alloy tubes (used in uranium fuel bundles) and related products while in Port Hope, a few minutes down the road, Zircatec has a fuel bundling plant (assembling uranium fuel bundles) and Cameco has a conversion plant (converting uranium trioxide (a) to uranium dioxide for CANDU reactors throughout Canada and (b) to uranium hexafluoride for export to enrichment plants supplying light-water reactors.

Media articles in Cobourg

Is nuclear power the answer to global warming?: An excellent artice by Mike Hick, which appeared in the Cobourg Daily Star on August 19, 2005 (and my responding, congratulatory letter to the editor)
How safe is nuclear power?: Another excellent artice by Mike Hick, which appeared in the Cobourg Daily Star on October 13, 2006 (and my responding, congratulatory letter to the editor)

EFN Interventions

The "Day 2" Hearings on Nov 28-30/06 by the Canadian Nuclear Safety Commission [CNSC] with respect to the applications for renewal of the 5-year operating licences for (a) the Cameco Port Hope Conversion Facility and (b) the Zircatec Port Hope Fuel-Bundling Plant

Submission by Rod Anderson (although I was then President of EFN-Canada I submitted this intervention as an individual): You can either read it online or download it as a pdf file

EFN Financial Statements

Here is a link to the EFN-Canada 2007 Financial Statements covering its second year of operations (a downloadable pdf file).

General Links about EFN (Environmentalists for Nuclear Energy)

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