This past few weeks I've been spending all my spare "nuclear" time on Canada (me living in Alberta and all).
There's been a lot of pro-nuclear statements made by federal legislators and I'm trying to elevate their exposure.
The above example is just such an exchange, but on YouTube it gets minimal interest.
So from that footage, I edited something shorter that got a few views...
The Liberals & Conservatives actually agree on something?
https://twitter.com/Dr_Keefer/status/1374478564469342210
Who is Dr. Chris Keefer (whom I relayed the MP4 to so he could native-video-tweet it)?
He's the host of Decouple Podcast, and Canadians for Nuclear Energy.
We (all of C4NE) are trying to advance Canadian nuclear communications and responsiveness to anti-nuke coverage. One such success story was this...
CBC Conflates 2011 Japanese Tsunami fatalities with Fukushima Meltdown
CBC Radio One is quite popular in Canada, although I rarely catch it. One C4NE volunteer (we're all volunteers) caught the following statement on the 10th year anniversary of the quake:
"Japan is marking 10 years since a magnitude 9 earthquake and tsunami struck the north east cost. The waves triggered a triple-meltdown at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant. Radiation spread to the surrounding communities, nearly 20,000 people were killed in the disaster. And, as Katie..."
CBC said this the very day after UNSCEAR updated their 2013 report to re-state (in 2021) that still no discernible health impacts from radiation have been seen, nor are expected to be seen.
Many of us wrote to CBC and asked for a retraction. CBC did issue a clarification.
And at that point I learned how hard it can be to recover ephemerial hourly-update news programs audio. It actually took many days to create the seemingly slapped-together video which follows...
https://twitter.com/gordonmcdowell/status/1371530061598261250
...which received 3,300 Twitter views, and directs people to C4NE.
Canadians for Nuclear Energy
C4NE.ca itself now boasts (thanks to help from Generation Atomic) letter writing infrastructure, to Canadian legislators and Canadian (print) media outlets.
In fact, today is the day we are attempting to seriously draw Canadians to the site, as today we're releasing the video of C4NE's successful pro-nuclear petition e-2962 being introduced in House of Commons being announced by Liberal MP.
The House of Commons petition video is in this Tweet:
https://twitter.com/CanadiansEnergy/status/1375531209485385729
Americans?
I hope Americans aren't bored silly by this, but it is an exciting time to be a pro-nuclear Canadian. Most Canadians don't know nuclear is low carbon, so there's a lot of low-hanging fruit.
