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From: "chris" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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Subject: Mohawks threaten action over nuclear waste
Date: Fri, 1 Oct 1999 17:36:51 -0700
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Mohawk communities reject shipment of nuclear fuel
WebPosted Fri Oct 1 20:05:28 1999
MONTREAL - The leaders of two Mohawk communities are threatening to take action if
nuclear fuel from Russia and the United States is shipped through their communities.
Joe Norton of the Kahnawake reserve near Montreal and Mike Mitchell of the Akwesasne
reserve near Cornwall, are angry they were not given more notice about the plan by
Atomic Energy of Canada (AECL) to receive a test shipment this fall.
Both Norton and Mitchell plan to fight AECL's plan to bring the Russian fuel to Chalk
River, Ontario.
The chiefs' reluctance to accept the nuclear waste is part of growing resistance to
the Ottawa-approved test to see if a mixture of plutonium and uranium oxides from
leftover warheads can be used in Candu nuclear reactors.
AECL has agreed to take as much as 50 tonnes of the fuel from old Russian nuclear
warheads to its Chalk River facilities.
The shipment of the plutonium and uranium is expected to pass through both Kahnawake
and Akwesasne as it makes its way up the St. Lawrence Seaway later this fall. It will
then be trucked to Chalk River from Cornwall.
The Mohawk chiefs say they don't think Canada should accept nuclear fuel from other
countries and they'll try to pressure politicians to stop the shipment. The chiefs say
they'll take it to the courts if they have to.
Mitchell warns if that fails, the chiefs will rally the Mohawk communities to try to
physically stop the shipment from moving up the Seaway.
To CBC News, Mitchell described potential action as: "Massive, massive human
resistance, that's all I can tell you right now."
Norton says he hopes other communities will join the opposition to the project.
"If nobody else in this part of Canada gives a damn, we certainly do and our position
is we'll use whatever means possible to prevent it from coming through out
communities," Norton says.
Larry Shewchuk, a spokesperson for AECL, argues that Canada has a responsibility to
help rid the world of plutonium. Sewchuk says there's a greater risk in just leaving
the plutonium out there than in helping to destroy it.
Shewchuk says the test shipment will contain only five kilograms of fuel and of that
only 132 grams of plutonium.
The chiefs say any amount is too much and they plan to go ahead with plans to stop it
although they won't say what type of action they could take.
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