Doreen Docken explains why people are against nuclear waste in Saskatchewan and why they are opposed to nuclear energy.
Thanks to Max and Debby Morin and the Committee for Future Generations for making this walk happening.
For more information and how to get in contact, use following links:
https://www.facebook.com/sayno2nuclearwaste
http://www.cleangreensask.ca/
Sign the petition to support the pass of legislation to permanently ban nuclear waste storage and transportation of nuclear waste into, out of and through Saskatchewan:
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"The 7000 Generations Walk left Pinehouse Lake on July 27 headed to Regina, and are meeting with Saskatchewan residents along the route, collecting petitions & connecting with people from all walks of life on this important issue. "
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"The purpose of our Walk is to wake people up to the reality that northern Saskatchewan is being targeted to store millions of used nuclear bundles which would be highly radioactive for hundreds of thousands of years. We will carry a petition to the Legislature that people may sign, directing the government to legislate a ban on nuclear waste storage and transportation in our province."
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Interview at city hall in Saskatoon by Thomas Schoene.
7000 Generations Walk against nuclear waste in Saskatchewan
| August 17, 2011This video can be found at YouTube
Targeted? Seriously?!
The NWMO asked if anyone might be interested! Several northern communities asked for more information.
The people of Northern Sask. approached the NWMO. They asked for more information. As is their right. No one 'Targeted' them. This is just rediculous grand standing.
Not to mention the hypocritical stance these people are taking. They profit from the uranium they produce for nuclear power generation world wide. They reap the benefits of medical isotopes produced in reactors. Yet they refuse to accept any possibility that they could share in the solution to the waste.
Makes me sick. I live in Manitoba and I am ashamed of our ban on nuclear waste. We also reap the benefits of nuclear technology, but are unwilling to accept any part of the responsibility to deal with the wastes involved. It's pathetic.
No Canadian has the right to say they can't take the waste. We have all benefitted. We should all share the responsibility to deal with it. If these communities want to hear more about the solution to the nuclear waste problem. Then let them hear it. Just because you're ignorant and scared, doesn't make it right to force a willing community to give up the opportunity to be a world leader in nuclear waste technology.
I know this is an older article so my comments might be unread forever, but I just couldn't let that one stand without rebuttal. You obviously have never been to northern Saskatchewan to see the rampant poverty and third world living conditions of most of the residents despite millions of dollars in resources being extracted every year. The uranium industry has been actively pushing nuclear waste in the north since the early 1990's, telling Native Elders they have a responsibility to take "it" back as if spent fuel rods and uranium yellow cake are the same thing.
Saskatchewan has tonnes of highly radioactive uranium mine tailings without adding to the toxic legacy we will already be leaving future generations. It's not about fear, it's about the reality that the entire process is being driven by the nuclear industry, including its newest group, the Nuclear Waste Management Organization. Just take a look at the composition of the board, they're almost all people who work, or have worked, for the industry. This is in the best interests of the industry so they can continue to make more of the stuff.
You can be ashamed of Manitoba all you want, I am proud to know the NDP government of the day saw fit to say no to this horrible legacy of radioactive toxicity. Sure, we have to deal with it, but not until we make a commitment to stop making more of it, and dedicate serious resources away from energy which produces such garbage, including Tar Sands, and work to transition to clean, green, safe energy including conservation. We can start to deal with the waste when we have set up a process to do so that is not guided & funded by entities with an interest to promote nuclear power and make more waste. When the industry is out of it all together, then we can talk. But until then, it's a sales job & the communities who have "approached" the NWMO have been brainwashed by nuclear industry propaganda & shiny bobbles (smallpox blankets anyone?) Sorry to be crass, but it's the same damn thing.
Ignorance is not bliss, it's just pathetic.