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David vs. Goliath: A small Indigenous community's fight against a federal radioactive dump

QUOTE: "They are less than 500 but manage to put on hold a federal nuclear dump project worth several hundred million dollars nuclear burial"

Anne Caroline Desplanques September 19, 2025 - le journal de Montreal

EXCERPT: "Federal authorities plan to store the remains of the Bécancour nuclear power plant, Gentilly-1, in a landfill in Chalk River, on the edge of the drinking water source for millions of Quebecers. At a time when the Carney government is promoting nuclear power as one of the ways to make Canada an energy superpower, our Bureau of Investigation was granted rare access to this ultra-secure complex, which Ottawa wants to hand over management to the Americans. We spoke with citizens and experts concerned about the environment and the country's sovereignty.

There are only 365 Anishinabeg gathered in the tiny Kebaowek Indigenous Reserve in Abitibi-Témiscamingue. But they have succeeded, through their lawyers, in halting a federal radioactive waste dump project worth several hundred million dollars on their traditional territory. . . . . ."

[ https://www.journaldemontreal.com/2025/ ... if-federal ]