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Successful anti-uranium protest rubbished by mining interests

“the doctor thing usually wears a bit thin” “This is strictly a fear campaign. The doctors probably have cottages near the site and don’t want to be bothered.”

Canadian uranium news for December 2009  Idaho Samizdat nuke notes 29 Dec 09 ” ………….…protest by 23 area physicians who threatened to leave the area. They said a drilling exploration project being operated by Terra Ventures (CVE:TAS) at Lake Kachiwiss 13 km from the town of Sept-lles was a threat to drinking water supplies.

The site is 900 km northwest of Montreal.Marc Fafard, a spokesman for the uranium protest group, said his organization feels a national referendum on uranium mining is the only way to get attention to their issues. Getting one on the ballot he said means “the government will no longer be able to ignore us.”Fafard has been active for some time in his cause to stop uranium exploration in Quebec. What’s different this time is that on Dec 13 he led a march of over 1,000 people through the town against uranium mining.The doctors were reportedly joined by the local chamber of commerce and city council in a protest march through the town Dec 13………………

Steve Aplin, VP for Energy & Environment at The HDP Group in Montreal, told FCW the protest by the doctors looks like “copy cat environmentalism.”

“Something is definitely afoot in Quebec. Whatever organized effort is happening in Sept Iles, it’s working. The town council adopted two resolutions for a moratorium on exploration. Plus, the official opposition party in Quebec, the Parti Quebecois, is now officially anti-nuclear. ”

“The mainstream media in Canada always watches and reports on this kind of thing, and always does the both-sides-of-the-story thing, even if one of the sides has less facts than the other. But the doctor thing usually wears a bit thin. Most people can sniff out an ideological bias, even in a doctor.”…

Jean-Pierre Thomassin, director general of Quebec’s mining exploration association told Canadian wire services, “This is strictly a fear campaign. The doctors probably have cottages near the site and don’t want to be bothered.”

December 30, 2009 - Posted by Christina Macpherson | Canada, spinbuster | antinuclear, nuclear, nuclear wastes