The Conservation Council and CELA’s 2017 submission to Canadian Nuclear Safety Commission

24: As CELA has recommended in the past, the CNSC should require the designated municipalities and NB Power to communicate to the public in annual outreach and education, the fact that the nuclear emergency response plans expect the public to make their own arrangements in the event of evacuation, and for those who cannot, what is expected to be provided by the municipalities. [...] 25: CELA submits that a similar recommendation to the one made by the US General Accounting Office to the US Nuclear Regulatory Commission is relevant in this case: that the CNSC require the applicant to conduct a study as to the awareness of Point Lepreau in people beyond the 20 km zone and their likely response in the event that a general emergency is declared and the EPZ is evacuated. [...] As found by the US-based, National Research Council of the National Academies, the emergency management plans in Japan at the time of the Fukushima Daiichi accident “were inadequate to deal with the magnitude of the accident.”14 It has come to CELA’s attention that the province of New Brunswick “does not have its own planning basis or definition of type of release.” Instead, the operator itself, N. [...] CELA Submissions – Point Lepreau 15 [A] plan, program or procedure prepared by the Province or a municipality, as the case may be, that is intended to mitigate the effects of an emergency or disaster and to provide for the safety, health or welfare of the civil population and the protection of property and the environment in the event of such an occurrence It is the province’s jurisdiction to prov. [...] The Bay of Fundy is home to a number of federally protected species under the Species at Risk Act, including the north Atlantic right whale,64blue whale65 and fin whale.66 Given the globally recognized uniqueness and importance of the Bay of Fundy region, CELA requests that the CNSC consider the marine environment within its reading of “protection of the environment” and “safety of persons” per s.