Kitigan Zibi Anishinābeg chief Jean-Guy Whiteduck hopeful 26-year water advisory will soon end

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Le chef de la nation Kitigan Zibi Anishinābeg Jean-Guy Whiteduck à espoir que l’avis sur l’eau potable sera bientôt chose du passé

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#KitiganZibiAnishinābeg #Anishinābeg #FirstNations #PremièresNations

Kitigan Zibi Anishinābeg chief hopeful 26-year water advisory will soon end | CBC News

Kitigan Zibi Anishinābeg's chief says he's hopeful residents of the community who remain under a decades-long drinking water advisory will soon have access to safe, clean water.

CBC

@kevinrns @wdlindsy And #ChaulkRiver #nuclear reactor was built on unceded land.

"Verna McGregor, a Kitigan Zibi #Anishinabeg elder, plans to explain at the CNSC licensing hearing how the #Algonquins were bypassed in the establishment of the original #ChalkRiver nuclear site on their unceded territory in the 1940s, and regard the river as sacred to their culture."

https://www.theglobeandmail.com/politics/article-first-nations-ottawa-nuclear-waste-water/

First Nations raise alarm over impact of planned nuclear-waste dump on Ottawa drinking water

Canadian Nuclear Laboratories says storage says new storage site will not impact drinking water, but Chief of Kebaowek First Nation says the risk posed by the storage site cannot be avoided

The Globe and Mail

TY to @bojacobs for posting this news story.

#FirstNations raise alarm over impact of planned #nuclear-waste dump on #Ottawa drinking water

by Marie Wolf, Published August 9, 2023

"'This is not just a problem of the #AlgonquinNation but all people on the #OttawaRiver. Why are we trying to put a radioactive mountain adjacent to the drinking water of millions of people that are south of this NSDF site?'

"Verna McGregor, a Kitigan Zibi #Anishinabeg elder, plans to explain at the CNSC licensing hearing how the #Algonquins were bypassed in the establishment of the original #ChalkRiver nuclear site on their unceded territory in the 1940s, and regard the river as sacred to their culture."

https://www.theglobeandmail.com/politics/article-first-nations-ottawa-nuclear-waste-water/

#InformedConsent #EnvironmentalRacism #WaterIsLife #NuclearWaste #IndigenousNews #IndigenousRights #DrinkingWater

First Nations raise alarm over impact of planned nuclear-waste dump on Ottawa drinking water

Canadian Nuclear Laboratories says storage says new storage site will not impact drinking water, but Chief of Kebaowek First Nation says the risk posed by the storage site cannot be avoided

The Globe and Mail