Canada
Sandra Inutiq’s speech at the GN public forum (2011, en)
March 20, 2011 I would like to talk about an important void in these discussions onmining, which is sustainability. Sustainability includes having aclear vision for Nunavut as a healthy ecosystem, a healthy and vibrantsociety that is strong in its cultural roots. The very basis of Inuitculture is sustainability which includes respect for all that isaround…
Read MoreIn defense of emotionalism, Makita responds (Nunatsiaq News, 2011, en)
letter to the editor Nunatsiaq News March 31, 2011 The editorial “On uranium, don’t look for simple answers” (March 28) asks “What, exactly, does … ‘political oppression’ consist of?” Oppression consists of residents of Baker Lake who voted to oppose the proposed Kiggavik uranium mine in a municipal plebiscite in 1990 — the only free…
Read MoreA vast canadian Wilderness poised for a Uranium Boom (Yale Environment, 2012, en)
30 JAN 2012: REPORT Canada’s Nunavut Territory is the largest undisturbed wilderness in the Northern Hemisphere. It also contains large deposits of uranium, generating intense interest from mining companies and raising concerns that a mining boom could harm the caribou at the center of Inuit life. by ed struzik Until her semi-nomadic…
Read MoreFrench Company pushes for uranium mine in the Canadian Arctic wilderness (2012, en)
by Rachel Cernansky Energy / Energy Police January 30, 2012 If you travel to Nunavut, a territory in Canada that stretches from the mainland to nearly the North Pole, you can encounter—because it’s so remote and has so few roads—caribou herds migrating freely that are among the biggest in the world. Between 65,000 and 400,000 animals or more live…
Read MoreThe uranium controversy in Baker Lake (Indigenous Politics, 2012, en)
INDIGENOUS POLITICSWARREN BERNAUER | February 3rd 2012 Baker Lake is a small and mostly Inuit community. The only inland community in Nunavut, it is located west of Hudson Bay, near the geographic centre of Canada. Its Inuktitut name is Qamani’tuaq (“where the river widens”). Baker Lake is in what is referred to today as the…
Read MoreUranbbau in Kanada auf Gebiet der Cree und Dene (2004, ger)
Die weltgrößten Uranminen liegen im Norden der Provinz Saskatchewan, Canada. Die „First Nations” der Region haben sich von Anbeginn des Uranabbaus (vor mehr als 30 Jahren) gegen die Uranbergwerke ausgesprochen, ohne ihr Ziel – Anerkennung ihrer vertraglich gesicherten Landrechte und Stopp des Uranabbaus bzw. seine Eingrenzung – zu erreichen. Nach offiziellen Feststellungen eines Regierungsausschusses (FEARO-Panel)…
Read MoreStop plans to build small nuclear reactors in Saskatchewan to power oil extraction from the Alberta Tar Sands.
A NEW PETITION against the building of small nuclear reactors in Saskatchewan is online at Avaaz.org. Quote from the site: “The Saskatchewan government and nuclear industry – with public and corporate money “laundered” through the University of Saskatchewan (U of S) – plan to build a small nuclear reactor to power extraction of oil from…
Read MoreNorthern protesters begin 820-km walk (Article, The Star Phoenix)
Northern protesters begin 820-km walk By Jeanette Stewart, The StarPhoenix,July 28, 2011 4:41 AM Fourteen residents of northern Saskatchewan have now begun an 820-kilometre walk from Pinehouse Lake to Regina to protest nuclear waste storage in Saskatchewan. The 7000 Generations Walk Against Nuclear Waste is organized by a group called the Committee for Future Generations.…
Read MoreCTV Saskatchewan – Protest over nuclear waste
A group plans to march 800 kilometers from the northern village of Pinehouse Lake to Regina to protest a proposal to store nuclear waste in northern Saskatchewan. About 30 of them kicked off the march with a rally Wednesday morning in Pinehouse. Fred Peterson was one of them. “The forests that we have,” said Peterson,…
Read More“Walk against nuclear Waste” will start on July 27 in Pinehouse, Saskatchewan
PLEASE support the Walk through supportive mails and messages, flags or banners and make a financial contribution! e-mail: committeeforfuturegenerations@gmail.com Mail:Committee for Future GenerationsP.O. Box 155Beauval, Saskatchewan, S0M 0G0CANADA Financial contributions: see http://www.cleangreensask.ca/Home/learn-more/nuclear-waste/northerners-say-no-to-nuclear-waste/make-a-donation There will be a PayPal account set up, check on the website mentioned above. … click here to read more…
Read More