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Thanks to politicians corrupted by the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA), a U.S. mining company is poised to make commercial profit by spreading uranium contamination across eastern Ontario and western Quebec. However, activists led by Grandmother Donna Dillman and Native-Canadian associates have sought to inspire opposition against a $3-million financing deal by an American exploration company. This U.S. transnational enterprise seeks to redevelop a decades-old uranium project near Haliburton in eastern Ontario.
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This inquiry took place April of 2008 and has dozens of presentations on uranium mining issues. Couldn't be a finer piece of material!
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The Ottawa Coalition Against Mining Uranium (OCAMU) is an Ottawa-based community association. Our mission is as follows:
We are a group of Ottawa citizens acting to ensure that Ottawa's water, air and surrounding ecosystem remain free of the byproducts of uranium mining. Uranium mining would poison these basic elements irreversibly. Our goal is to raise awareness and request a moratorium on uranium mineral prospecting, exploration, and mining in the Ottawa watershed. We call on our local political representatives to fulfill their responsibility of ensuring a healthy Ottawa.
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Natural Resources Minister Donald Arseneault is vowing that uncovered uranium drill holes in the Moncton area will be filled soon or the company will face consequences.
"If a company does not follow the rules or does it negligently, I will not tolerate that," he said.
Arseneault didn't set a firm timeline for ensuring the holes are filled, but said he has the authority to revoke the company's claims if it's not done soon.
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The Department of Natural Resources is giving a mining company the benefit of the doubt that it will fill holes it left uncovered while drilling for uranium in the Moncton area, says a department spokeswoman.
But Kent South Conservative MLA Claude Williams is calling on government to fix the situation immediately, especially given that a local resident's well is now full of murky water.
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As one of the most controversial topics that the Province of New Brunswick has dealt with this year, even those who have been on the front lines of uranium mining have differing opinions on the potential dangers of the radioactive material.
Wayne MacCallum, 58, is a Miramichi man who worked in a uranium mine in Elliot Lake, Ont., from 1979-90. He says as long as conditions and regulations were upheld, there weren't any significant safety risks associated with his work.
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The Graham government still doesn't get it.
New Brunswickers have said loud and clear, time and time again, that they do not want uranium exploration and mining in the province. It is now clearer than ever that this government refuses to listen to the people.
Premier Graham has demonstrated once again that he is working for the uranium companies.
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A Canadian company that acquired a reported 550 tonnes of yellowcake uranium from Iraq says that the U.S. military wanted the deal to be kept quiet.
"We were following the request of the U.S. government,'' Saskatoon-based Cameco Corp. spokesperson Lyle Krahn told The Canadian Press of the clandestine route the material took to get out of Baghdad and to Canada.
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SAINT JOHN - The provincial government signaled Friday it is no longer open for uranium business after announcing a series of exploration restrictions, industry firms say.
The restrictions, banning uranium exploration in municipalities, watersheds, well fields and within 300 metres of private homes, have triggered concerns for investor confidence, with at least one firm reviewing its future in the province.
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GOLIAD – Residents can still comment on the ongoing uranium mining project in Goliad County.
The Texas Commission on Environmental Quality prepared the draft permit which is now available for public comment until July 25. Uranium Energy Corp. has not yet submitted its affidavit that it has printed a public notice, TCEQ spokeswoman Andrea Morrow said.
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Uranium exploration should be suspended in Ontario until its impact on health, the environment and aboriginal land rights is properly addressed, said a report released yesterday by the Community Coalition Against Mining Uranium.
The report emerged from a series of public meetings in Ottawa, Sharbot Lake, Kingston and Peterborough in April. It also called for a royal commission to review Ontario's Mining Act, deeming it out of date.
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MEMRAMCOOK - About 75 people filled the Abbey-Landry School auditorium in Memramcook last night, anxious for assurances that uranium mining in their midst would not be a threat to their health and the environment.
The people, like those at similar meetings held elsewhere in the province in past weeks, are worried about the long-term effects of mining the radioactive material and of the disposal of the mine tailings which remain a hazard to air, soil and water sources for a very long time.
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CBC News has learned that 16 Canadian lakes are slated to be officially but quietly "reclassified" as toxic dump sites for mines. The lakes include prime wilderness fishing lakes from B.C. to Newfoundland.
Environmentalists say the process amounts to a "hidden subsidy" to mining companies, allowing them to get around laws against the destruction of fish habitat.
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MONCTON - Premier Shawn Graham says his government will bring forward "significant policy changes" to address the public's concern over uranium mining in the province by the end of the month.
In a speech to more than 1,000 of his Liberal counterparts at a party fundraiser Saturday evening in Moncton, Graham talked mostly about what the party has completed so far, as it gets closer to the midway point of its mandate this fall.
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When House Bill 1161 -- the Land and Water Stewardship Act -- was signed into law by Gov. Bill Ritter on May 20, I was relieved for a short period of time.
This legislation places restrictions and qualifications on uranium mining companies that propose to mine groundwater via the in-situ leach (ISL) process. The body of ground that I am most concerned with is the Denver Basin Aquifer System, which supplies drinking water to 500,000 to 700,000 Coloradans.
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Premier Shawn Graham says he's willing to consider changes in how mining companies look for uranium in New Brunswick.
He made the comment Friday after hundreds of angry citizens packed public information meetings in Fredericton and Moncton this week.
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This letter is in response to a quote by Dr. Sonja Johnson's in the article titled "Public voices displeasure at uranium meeting" in the June 5 Times & Transcript.
She is quoted as saying "80 percent of an individual's exposure to uranium is through sources such as the Earth's core, water and food."
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A near-capacity crowd turned out to a government-led information session Thursday night to show their opposition to any uranium exploration or mining whatsoever in southeast New Brunswick.
"Who here does not want a uranium exploration or mining? Please stand up now," one attendee asked the more than 700 people gathered at Moncton's Capital Theatre.
Moments later, after loud cheers and applause, he added, "Thank you very much. As a unit of measure, the record would reflect that it is unanimous."
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FREDERICTON - More than 250 people worried about uranium exploration and the possibility of mining in the province showed up to voice their concerns at a public meeting hosted by the government in Fredericton last night.
And it didn't appear that residents left the meeting any less concerned as nearly everyone at the standing-room-only event raised their hand when asked by a member of the audience if they still opposed uranium mining.
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