@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

"Proposed Chalk River# nuclear dumpsite violates UNDRIP, says #Algonquin chiefs"

#NuclearWaste #Canada #ChalkRiver

https://www.aptnnews.ca/national-news/chalk-river-nuclear-site-violates-undrip-says-algonquin-chiefs/

TIL that Jimmy Carter, the 39th president of the United States, helped save the #ChalkRiver #nuclear reactor near #Ottawa after a meltdown ... one of the world's first major reactor accidents 🤯

"It was a very exciting time for me when the Chalk River plant melted down [...] I was one of the few people in the world who had clearance to go into a nuclear power plant," he said.

"There were 23 of us and I was in charge. I took my crew up there on the train."

This sounds like a schlocky action movie (thanks to @LundeenOttawa for the term and posting about this elsewhere), but it really happened:
http://www.cnn.com/2011/OPINION/04/05/milnes.carter.nuclear/index.html