Eastern Ontario activists successful get Citizen's Inquiry on Uranium Mining plans

by Uranium News staff

The Community Coalition Against Mining Uranium (CCAMU) has announced details on the "Citizens' Inquiry on the Impacts of the Uranium Cycle."

Public Hearings are scheduled to take place during April in Sharbot Lake, Kingston, Peterborough and Ottawa.

"It became clear that the government of Ontario was not going to put a moratorium in place before they recessed for the holidays and wasn't listening to concerns around the exploration for uranium that is taking place in eastern Ontario," stated Donna Dillman, the 53 year-old grandmother who resumed eating on December 13, after 68 days without food, when several organizations, including Greenpeace, Canadian Association of Physicians for the Environment, David Suzuki Foundation, Canadian Coalition for Nuclear Responsibility, Voice of Women, Mining Watch Canada, Student Against Climate Change and Sierra Club of Canada stepped forward to initiate a citizens' inquiry. "A team is in place and plans for the inquiry are well underway," she said, from her home near Lanark, ½ hour from the exploration site.

The interested public is invited to attend the Hearings to observe or to make presentations. The Inquiry will be accessible to citizens and experts alike. Presentations can be in a variety of forms and will be limited to 10 minutes each. "Because people express their ideas in different ways, presentations can be through narratives, poems, skits, and songs as well as with written submissions," said Ms. Dillman, adding that the hearings will be documented.

CCAMU anticipates a broad range of topics relating to the issues and facts, including public and environmental health and safety, economics and political responsibility.

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