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Lakes, Liabilities, and Legacies - The Real Impacts of "Modern" Uranium Mining
Thursday, August 26, 2010

Jamie Kneen presents at the Fourth Keepers of the Water conference, held in Wollaston Lake, Saskatchewan, August 19-23, 2010.

Water, Reforming Mining Laws and Policies, Areva/Cogema, Environmental Planning, Saskatchewan, Impact on Communities, Indigenous Rights, Cameco, Denison, Uranium, Water and fisheries
Uranium Hype Hits Indigenous Opposition Globally, Provokes Conflict in the North
Friday, February 2, 2007

The Indigenous World Uranium Summit

The Indigenous World Uranium Summit, held in Window Rock, Arizona, on November 30 to December 2, 2006, was a vindication of the Navajo Nation’s ban on uranium mining in Navajo Nation Territory and a regrouping of Indigenous opposition to uranium mining globally. People from Indigenous communities around the world spoke about their experiences living with the effects of the mining and use of uranium, from Fiji to India to the North America.

Labrador, Nevada, Newfoundland & Labrador, New Mexico, Northwest Territories, United States, Reforming Mining Laws and Policies, South Dakota, Areva/Cogema, Nunavut, Ontario, Québec, Saskatchewan, Free Entry/Land Access, Indigenous Rights, Newsletter 24: Winter 2006-2007, Cameco, Denison, Uranium
This is My Homeland: Stories of the effects of nuclear industries by people (Review)
Saturday, December 2, 2006
(Edited by Lorraine Rekmans, Keith Lewis and Anabel Dwyer; published by the Serpent River First Nation, Cutler, Ontario, 2003. 123 pp. Reviewed by Jamie Kneen.) It was not the Anishinabe people of the Serpent River, who decided to mine the massive uranium deposits that lie under the river basin where the town of Elliot Lake now sits. But it is they who have suffered the most from ...
Ontario, Denison, Uranium, Rio Tinto
Urgent Action: Mining companies to end support for community-based laboratory analysis of uranium tailings in the Serpent River
Wednesday, February 22, 2006

Rio Algom, a subsidiary of BHP-Billiton, and Denison Mines Limited have awarded a contract for laboratory analytical work to monitor 14 decommissioned uranium mines and 130 million tonnes of residual radioactive tailings in the Serpent River basin area to a large commercial laboratory in Peterborough, Ontario.

Ontario, BHP-Billiton, Denison, Uranium
Mining Companies Try to Duck Liabilities at Old Uranium Mines
Sunday, March 7, 2004
Recent months have seen mining companies trying to get out of their obligations at the closed-out uranium mines in Cluff Lake, Saskatchewan and Elliot Lake, Ontario. In January, Denison Mines Limited (now known as Denison Energy) brought an application to the Canadian ...
Abandoned Mines, Ontario, Saskatchewan, Newsletter 15: Winter 2003-2004, Denison, Uranium

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