Citizens Awareness Network
Our Purpose
Citizens Awareness Network (CAN) is a New England grassroots environmental organization, located in Western MA, working to end the production of unaffordable, dangerous nuclear waste and power and its waste. CAN advocates for a sustainable, reliable, and just energy future. CAN is committed to a democratically led and scientifically sound solution for nuclear waste.The resurrection of nuclear power as a solution for anything is a travesty. Nuclear power is neither clean nor green. It relies on its invisibility to keep its lies going while communities suffer the burden of its broken promises. High level nuclear waste is stranded at reactor sites with no solution. The government and industry abdicated their responsibility to develop a scientifically sound and environmentally just solution to this monstrous waste problem. The communities targeted for this waste, like the communities targeted for reactors, are working poor, people of color, and Indigenous. This is environmental racism.We need real solutions that protect our communities, our environment, and provide safe, clean, real solutions to our energy needs.
Summary of Projects
To support the 1999 Northeast Action Camp II, a week of activist training to give citizens the knowledge and tools to confront issues related to nuclear generation, waste disposal and decommissioning of the region's aging nuclear power plants.
for its Nuclear Free New England Campaign.
To fund implementation of CAN's Radioactive Waste Caravan project which will bring attention to many of the public health and environmental justice issues shipping high level radioactive wastes across public transp0rtation routes raises. As operating nuclear power plants come to the end of their functional lives and are decommissioned, this issue will become more pressing. CAN is one of only a few grassroots groups nationally addressing these concerns.