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13 posts published by Christina Macpherson on January 21, 2024

Nuclear waste disposal would run counter to Aboriginal rights and environmental protection. by Alexia Leclerc, Pivot, January 16, 2024 The Kebaowek First Nation denounces the Canadian Nuclear Safety Commission's decision to grant a license to the private company Canadian Nuclear Laboratories to build a radioactive waste disposal facility at Chalk River, on Algonquin Anishinabeg traditional…

“You cannot sit there and tell me that over the next 550 years nothing is going to leach out of this mound and get in and make its way into the surrounding environment and waterways.” —Kebaowek First Nation Councillor Justin Roy By Shari NarineLocal Journalism Initiative ReporterWindspeaker.com   12 Jan 24 Kebaowek First Nation is considering…

Indigenous Climate Action, August 23 Canadian Nuclear Laboratories (CNL) is pushing forward construction of a Near Surface Disposal Facility (NSDF), otherwise known as a nuclear waste dump, less than 1 kilometre away from the Kichi Sìbì (the Ottawa River) without the Free, Prior, and Informed Consent of the Algonquin Nations whose territory they are on.…

Canadian Nuclear Safety Commission heard final arguments Thursday Guy Quenneville · CBC News · Aug 10, 2023 The Canadian Nuclear Safety Commission (CNSC) held its final hearings in Ottawa on Thursday into a proposed radioactive waste disposal site further north in the Ottawa Valley that is fiercely opposed by Algonquin First Nation groups.  Canadian Nuclear Laboratories (CNL) wants to build an engineered…

OTTAWA — Several First Nations are sounding the alarm about a proposed nuclear waste facility near the Ottawa River, as Canada's nuclear regulator decides whether the project should be approved.

The Canadian Nuclear Safety Commission (CNSC) held its final hearings in Ottawa on Thursday into a proposed radioactive waste disposal site further north in the Ottawa Valley that is fiercely opposed by Algonquin First Nation groups.