Saskatchewan

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)…

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…

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.…

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,…

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…

by James Wood Saskatoon StarPhoenix April 15, 2011   Premier Brad Wall says Saskatchewan residents haven’t warmed to the idea of storing nuclear waste in the province and it is highly unlikely the government would allow such a facility to be built. Wall made the comments Thursday after a petition with more than 4,500 signatures…

Uranium has forced people to move   Publicerad 100325 15:40.    For over 30 years, a large proportion of the uranium used to produce electricity in the Oskarshamn nuclear power plant in Sweden derived from Canada. Uranium mining has forced indigenous people to flee from the land where they lived for thousands of years.

click:“No Nuclear Power: Rally” (ARTICLE in StarPhoenix, Oct 5, 2009, local Saskatchewan newspaper) ANNOUNCEMENT of the Rally by the Saskatchewan Greens