Kitigan Zibi Anishinābeg chief Jean-Guy Whiteduck hopeful 26-year water advisory will soon end
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/ottawa/kitigan-zibi-anishinabeg-uranium-well-water-9.7008736
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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
https://ici.radio-canada.ca/info/long-format/2211931/eau-potable-uranium-kitigan-zibi
#KitiganZibiAnishinābeg #Anishinābeg #FirstNations #PremièresNations
@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/
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
Edwin G. 
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