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The mayor of Saint John says the State of the Province address earlier this week included a number of positive...

Former U.S. regulator questions small nuclear reactor technology,    Business case for small reactors ‘doesn’t fly,’ says expert on nuclear waste, Jacques Poitras · CBC News Jan 15, 2021   A former head of the United States’ nuclear regulator is raising questions about the molten-salt technology that would be used in one model of proposed New Brunswick-made nuclear reactors. The technology pitched by Saint John’s Moltex Energy is key to its business case because, the company ar...

Posted: Jan 15, 2021 6:00 AM AT | Last Updated: January 15 Allison Macfarlane, director of the School of Public Policy and Global Affairs at the University of British Columbia, says she has a lot of unanswered questions about molten-salt technology.(University of British Columbia)

  SAINT JOHN, N.B. -- Many New Brunswickers watched Thursdays provincial COVID-19 briefing with the unmet expectation some areas would transition to red -- the governments highest level of pandemic restrictions. "Theres a lot of comments and chatter on social media about red and it hasnt come from government," said New Brunswick Health Minister Dorothy Shephard. "This situation will be assessed every single day." All areas of New Brunswick went from the yellow phase (the provinces lowest l...

Many New Brunswickers watched Thursdays provincial COVID-19 briefing with the unmet expectation some areas would transition to red -- the governments highest level of pandemic restrictions.

by The Narwhal on Wednesday Dec 30 2020 Forester and ecologist Sybille Haeussler is searching for ways to save the whitebark pine, Western Canada’s only endangered tree, from extinction. Photo: Marty Clemens / The Narwhal A surprising thing happened at The Narwhal during the very-bad-not-at-all-good year of 2020: we wrote more good news and solutions-focused stories than ever before You don’t need me to tell you what the seven years of 2020 have been like.  But ...