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Green Glow Renaissance: Global Nuclear Genocide

The nuclear industry seized on the “peak oil” and “global warming” crisis which they created and turned it to their advantage.  They call nuclear a “green”, “clean”, “renewable” resource because they can reuse the deadly waste to make nuclear weapons.  They lump it under with wind and solar.  The theme of the Canadian Nuclear Association CNA convention and trade show from February 25 to 27 at the Westin in Ottawa is “the reality of renaissance”.  [Is that crazy or what?]  Yes, they rely on our ignorance and naivety. ………………..They want to build dozens of nuclear reactors all over the world in Indigenous communities along and dump the nuclear waste for us to “manage”!!  We live in remote areas far from any place they would want to even visit. …………………….

Meanwhile, Canada helps set up private organizations as government fronts like CNA (Canadian Nuclear Association), NWMO (Nuclear Waste Management Organization) and CAP (Congress of Aboriginal People) and OMAA (Ontario Metis and Aboriginal Association).  The latter two are so-called “aboriginal” organizations.  NWMO and CNA are funding the Assembly of First Nations, another government set up, and CAP to talk us into managing and storing nuclear fuel waste on our territories.  Meetings have gone on for years to get Elders and “leaders” on side.  Canada has even sent in Mother Joan Holmes to turn non-natives into “Indians” who can then sign away our inherent rights.  Nuclear salesmen are courting “Aboriginal partners” to sign away our birthright and existence.

So-called 34-year old “aboriginal”, Patrick “Fabio-Wannabe” Brazeau, was recently appointed Senator by Canadian Prime Minister Stephen “Ford-Modelling-Agent” Harper.  What was this all about?  Brazeau’s rap sheet looks like the antithesis of anything anyone would want in the Senate.  He was rewarded for fronting the phony CAP to try to destroy Indigenous nations and sovereignty.

CAP has arrangements with NRC (Natural Resources Canada) and NWMO to consider nuclear waste management on or near our communities.  Brazeau proposed, “… the 633 native communities in Canada be reduced to between 60 and 80. The 10 Algonquin reserves in Quebec and Ontario, for example, would become one.  Same for the Cree. The Mohawk. And so on”.   The guy didn’t consult  any of us or visit any of our communities.  Now, if he has any sense, he’d be afraid to come.  He wants to redirect the flow of nearly $10 billion in federal funding for “aboriginal” programs and services in Canada.  He thinks we wont need it because we are going to liquidated.  So he wants the money to go to the many “aboriginal” that he and Mother Jones have created.    …………………………NWMO wants to store nuclear waste in Indigenous communities in the Canadian Shield.  Sites in NAN (Nishnaabe Aski Nation) in northern Ontario appear to be the most likely. ………………………………A telling example of these “courtships” with the Indigenous is the recent attempted seduction of the Navaho.  Areva, the French nuclear power company, took the council on a recent trip to Paris.  Areva “owns” uranium mines in northern Saskatchewan.  They want the Navaho to put a nuclear reactor and to do more uranium mining in their territory in the U.S. southwest.

The Navaho know about the devastation of uranium tailings.  Most want nothing to do with nuclear development.  The same is true of the Ojibwe, Cree and Metis who have been targeted in northern Canada.  Nishnaabe are fully aware of and suffering from the ongoing poisoning at Blind River and the tons of nuclear waste at Elliot Lake.

Nuclear promoters like AECL (Atomic Energy Canada Ltd) and CNSC (Canadian Nuclear Safety Commission) will coo soothingly, in their brushed suits, carefully coiffed hair [if they have any] and manicured hands, “There’s no risk”…………………………

We all have to drastically cut back on our materialistic lifestyle.  Every household could be generating enough clean energy to power their own grid.  We Indigenous understand this basic and practical way of taking only what we need and leaving little or no footprint.

The elders are concerned about the future based on our traditional knowledge.  The youth are concerned with living with the legacy of nuclear waste disposal.  Women are concerned with protecting the clean and safe water for all people and the environment as this is our traditional role.

http://www.pacificfreepress.com/news/1/3738-green-glow-renaissance-global-nuclear-genocide.html

February 20, 2009 - Posted by Christina Macpherson | Canada, indigenous issues