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The growing movement of Indigenous leaders across Northern Ontario opposing nuclear waste dump – ricochet.media

October 3 2024

First Nations opposing nuclear waste burial in northwestern Ontario are growing in number and are now mobilizing across the region.

A fledgling movement of Indigenous leaders hosted a small rally with non-Indigenous allies in Thunder Bay on Wednesday, with a refrain of “Gaa-Wiin,” the Anishinaabemowin word meaning “no” to nuclear waste burial.

The demonstration followed a letter signed by nine chiefs last week, asking the Nuclear Waste Management Organization to respect their will not to bury Canada’s most radioactive nuclear waste in a deep repository site between the town of Ignace and Wabigoon Lake Ojibway First Nation.

Read More: https://ricochet.media/indigenous/the-growing-movement-of-indigenous-leaders-across-northern-ontario-opposing-nuclear-waste-dump/

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