zirkus

0 posts0 participants0 posts today

DoomsdaysCWNorthern Ontario site selected for <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/NuclearWaste" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#NuclearWaste</a> underground repositoryA region in northern Ontario was chosen Thursday as the site to hold Canada's nuclear waste in a deep geological repository, a critical milestone in a $26-billion, decades-long project to bury millions of used fuel bundles underground.Allison Jones, The Canadian Press Nov 28, 2024"The site selection process began in 2010 with 22 potential locations and was eventually narrowed down to two finalists in Ontario. Both <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Ignace" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Ignace</a> and <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/WabigoonLakeOjibwayNation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#WabigoonLakeOjibwayNation</a> in northern Ontario decided to move ahead, while the 'yes' side narrowly won in a referendum in the Municipality of South Bruce."But nearby <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/SaugeenOjibwayNation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#SaugeenOjibwayNation</a> had not made a decision, and the <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/NWMO" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#NWMO</a> had a timeline of selecting a site by the end of this year."'We've been working with Saugeen Ojibway Nation for many years, and despite our best efforts, we did not see a path forward where Saugeen would be in a position to determine their willingness in the short, probably the mid-term,' Swami said."Chief Clayton Wetelainen of Wabigoon Lake Ojibway Nation said his community's role as the potential host for Canada’s used nuclear fuel is one of the most important responsibilities of our time."'We can not ignore this challenge and allow it to become a burden for future generations,' he wrote in a statement."The First Nation will ensure that its role as guardians of the land and water remains central to the decision-making process, Wetelainen and the council said, and the project can only continue if it can be proven to be built safely, with respect to the environment and in a way that protects Anishinaabe values."But <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/GrassyNarrowsFirstNation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#GrassyNarrowsFirstNation</a>, also in northwestern Ontario, is upset with the decision. Grassy Narrows is grappling with generations of <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/MercuryPoisoning" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#MercuryPoisoning</a> after a mill in Dryden dumped 9,000 kilograms of the substance into the English-Wabigoon River system in the 1960s."'This decision puts the people of Grassy Narrows in grave danger,' Joseph Fobister, Grassy Narrows' land protection team lead, said in a statement."'The transport of extremely dangerous nuclear waste and its disposal within our <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/watershed" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#watershed</a> will do irreparable destruction to our lands, rivers, and our way of life, which have already been damaged by so many harmful decisions imposed on us.'"<a href="https://www.burnabynow.com/indigenous-news/northern-ontario-site-selected-for-nuclear-waste-underground-repository-9877055" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.burnabynow.com/indigenous-news/northern-ontario-site-selected-for-nuclear-waste-underground-repository-9877055</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/NuclearWaste" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#NuclearWaste</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Canada" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Canada</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/FirstNations" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#FirstNations</a>

DoomsdaysCWThe Most Toxic Substance on Earth – and the Tiny Town Volunteering to Host ItThe fraught quest for a safe site to bury <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/NuclearWaste" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#NuclearWaste</a> by William Leiss Updated 8:12, Jan. 13, 2025"In a landmark decision announced this past November, Canada’s Nuclear Waste Management Organization, or the <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/NWMO" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#NWMO</a>, selected the municipality of Ignace in Northwestern Ontario as the site for the country’s first deep geological repository—DGR—for spent nuclear fuel. The repository is to be located within the traditional territory of the <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/WabigoonLakeOjibway" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#WabigoonLakeOjibway</a> Nation, forty-three kilometres from Ignace.[...]"The Wabigoon Lake Ojibway Nation—WLON—or <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/WabigoonFirstNation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#WabigoonFirstNation</a>, based in the Kenora district southeast of Dryden and a member of Grand Council Treaty 3, is the First Nation partner for the NWMO in the Ignace area. Treaty 3 encompasses 55,000 square metres and stretches from eastern Manitoba to just west of Thunder Bay; it includes twenty-eight communities of <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Anishinaabe" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Anishinaabe</a> peoples, located in Northwestern <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Ontario" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Ontario</a> and southeastern <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Manitoba" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Manitoba</a>, with a total population of about 25,000. The WLON is a Saulteaux First Nation band and, as of 2021, had a registered population of 822, with an on-reserve population of 186 residing at Wabigoon Lake 27 Indian Reserve who operate a wild rice processing plant, a logging business, and a tree nursery there. The consultations over the possible DGR siting in the Ignace area led to some quite acrimonious public controversy among a number of First Nations communities, many of which are very close to each other in an area at the southernmost corner of the extreme northwestern edge of Ontario, near both the Manitoba and US borders."Read more: <a href="https://thewalrus.ca/the-most-toxic-substance-on-earth-and-the-tiny-town-volunteering-to-host-it/?utm_source=firefox-newtab-en-us" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://thewalrus.ca/the-most-toxic-substance-on-earth-and-the-tiny-town-volunteering-to-host-it/?utm_source=firefox-newtab-en-us</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/EnvironmentalRacism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#EnvironmentalRacism</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/NoNukes" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#NoNukes</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/NuclearWaste" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#NuclearWaste</a>

DoomsdaysCW<a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/EagleLakeFirstNation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#EagleLakeFirstNation</a> challenges <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/NWMO" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#NWMO</a> in courtBy Mike Stimpson, 2 January 2025EAGLE LAKE – "<a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/EagleLake" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#EagleLake</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/FirstNation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#FirstNation</a> is challenging the <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/NuclearWasteManagementOrganization" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#NuclearWasteManagementOrganization</a>’s site selection in court, and that’s more than welcome news to Neecha Dupuis."'I love it,' Dupuis, a member of the <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Ojibway" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Ojibway</a> Nation of <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Saugeen" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Saugeen</a> (<a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/SavantLake" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#SavantLake</a>), said from Ottawa. 'Just pure love.'"Eagle Lake’s chief 'came and walked with us' in this year’s <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/WalkAgainstNuclearWaste" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#WalkAgainstNuclearWaste</a>, she noted."'It’s all coming together, like one giant dream catcher,' Dupuis said."Dupuis said she doesn’t understand <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/WabigoonLakeOjibway" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#WabigoonLakeOjibway</a> Nation’s decision to move forward with the NWMO on possibly constructing a deep geological repository, or DGR, for high-level nuclear waste."'For them to choose nuclear waste over the land, that doesn’t make sense. It doesn’t make sense at all.'"<a href="https://fftimes.com/news/district-news/eagle-lake-first-nation-challenges-nwmo-in-court/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://fftimes.com/news/district-news/eagle-lake-first-nation-challenges-nwmo-in-court/</a>

Recent searches

Search options

Administered by:

Server stats:

#nwmo