Native Issues in the news...Or not!

[CDNBear]

[FONT=Arial, Verdana, Geneva, Helvetica, sans-serif]URGENT! JUDGE ILLEGALLY ORDERS ALGONQUINS TO BE INVADED AUG. 29th[/FONT][FONT=Arial, Verdana, Geneva, Helvetica, sans-serif]Brothers, Sisters, Friends, Allies, Supporters, and Environmentalists needed![/FONT]

[FONT=Arial, Verdana, Geneva, Helvetica, sans-serif]MNN. August 28, 2007. Judge Gordon Thompson has ordered the Algonquins who are blocking access to a proposed uranium mine north of Sharbot Lake to leave immediately. The people have been told to expect the police on Wednesday, August 29th. All supporters are asked to come to the site to help maintain the peace. This is only the beginning of things to come under the conservative regime with the help of the liberals at Queen’s Park Toronto. The Bush administration in Washington DC needs uranium for their military industrial schemes. [/FONT]

[FONT=Arial, Verdana, Geneva, Helvetica, sans-serif]Justice Thomson has ordered the protesters to leave and allow Frontenac Ventures Corporation to start uranium mining, to contaminate the watershed of all of eastern Ontario and western Quebec, one of the most densely populated areas in Canada. [/FONT]

[FONT=Arial, Verdana, Geneva, Helvetica, sans-serif]"Frontenac shall have immediate, unfettered and unobstructed access to the subject property including the field office, access road and all of the identified exploration property and the Clarendon site," Justice Thomson wrote. If the judge wanted to be truthful, he should have added, “and the right for Frontenac to contaminate, destroy the unborn, carry out genetic damage to the flora and fauna of the entire area”. [/FONT]

MNN

Why is it when the Natives are dead to right, we never hear about the criminal actions against them in the MsM?

 

[lone wolf]

Why the big interest in uranium? The mines in Elliot Lake are seeing renewed action too....

Wolf

 

[hermanntrude]

I read recently that surveys of the US nuclear weapons systems had revealed some "parts" had gone missing. Maybe it was the Uranium!

 

[wallyj]

Whoa now. The indians are right? I don't think so.Why should they be allowed to block someone else business? Notice how they work in the dreaded boogeyman Bush and of course the enviroment. That always starts my BS detector going.

 

[CDNBear]

Whoa now. The indians are right? I don't think so.Why should they be allowed to block someone else business? Notice how they work in the dreaded boogeyman Bush and of course the enviroment. That always starts my BS detector going.

It's Federally recognised as their protective lands...Which means they are supposed to be consulted at length and have the final say as to whether or not the land can be used in such a manner.

This usually only pops up when the land is being surveyed for resource extraction...It's big money and that washes a whole lotta hands, so the fact that the Algonquin have the last word seems to get forgotten.

 

[wallyj]

Well,that does make a diference. It is not mentioned in the article.

 

[wallyj]

Uh oh. I went through about a dozen articles on this situation. The best I could find (and I don't know why I am now writing in italics) is that the Algonquins have a land claim over the land. I agree with the judge,considering that all of B.C. and most of the rest of Canada has been claimed . If we wait for every claim to be settled before allowing business to be conducted we may as well shut down the whole country.

 

[lone wolf]

Somebody's got to look out for the land - AND the water around and under it. Do you realize how much cancer that can be traced back to sloppy handling of radioactive waste there is around Elliot Lake? Dennison wasn't long leaving town when threats of litigation loomed over those dusty hills.

Wolf

 

[Sparrow]

Well then I guess the government better get of their collective asses and settle the claims in a timely order.