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International interest in Montreal’s anti nuclear protest walk

“The support is coming from everywhere,” said Max Morin, one of the leaders of the Committee for Future Generations, the group organizing the walk.

Participants in the 7,000 Generations Walk Against Nuclear Waste planned to reach Prince Albert by Tuesday evening. They left the community of Pinehouse Lake one week ago and will walk 820 kilometres to Regina to deliver a petition to the legislature Aug. 16, stopping in 12 communities along the way…..

more than a thousand people have signed the petition, including the leader of the Metis Nation-Saskatchewan, and Jeanette Wicinski-Dunn, the NDP candidate for Saskatchewan Rivers, who also walked along with the team for two kilometres.

The decision to host a nuclear waste storage site in Saskatchewan must be made by all people, not only by community leaders, said Morin.

“It has to be decided by the people of Saskatchewan,” he said. “If the majority of people want nuclear waste, what can the people say that don’t want it? But you know what? I’m sure the majority of people do not want it.”

The Nuclear Waste Management Organization (NWMO) of Canada has been asked by the federal government to find a location for the permanent storage of waste from nuclear generators in Ontario, Quebec and New Brunswick. Canadian reactors have created more than two million radioactive bundles of spent fuel since the 1970s. The NWMO says the bundles are toxic and must be isolated permanently from humans and the environment…..

http://www.montrealgazette.com/news/world/Anti+nuclear+walk+gains+international+support/5196740/story.html

August 7, 2011 - Posted by Christina Macpherson | Canada, opposition to nuclear