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

Lady Chainsaw (roots from #Dakota first peoples) wanted to visit & give support to #OldGrowth #forestdefenders up at ridge camp last July & we got her up the mountain.
Pictured here, with the mountains behind us, from left to right:
Raven (from #AlgonquinNation & one of my good friends from the blockade), Lady Chainsaw (longtime #Indigenous #Landback #activist ) & me.

#StopEcocide #SaveOldGrowth #FightForTheForests #POC #StopClearcuts #CliimateAction #VancouverIsland #PNW #Activists #OneEarth