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Canada’s Deadly Secret: Saskatchewan Uranium and the Global Nuclear System
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Canada’s Deadly Secret: Saskatchewan Uranium and the Global Nuclear System is a 2007 book by Jim Harding which chronicles the struggle over Saskatchewan’s uranium mining, and demonstrates the negative impacts on Aboriginal rights and environmental health, and the effect of free trade. Professor Harding argues that nuclear energy cannot address global warming and that there is no such thing as a “peaceful atom.” Helen Caldicott wrote the foreword to the book.

Jim Harding is a retired professor of environmental and justice studies. He is a founding member of the Regina Group for a Non-Nuclear Society and International Uranium Congress and was director of research for Prairie Justice Research at the University of Regina. Professor Harding also acted as Prairie Correspondent for Nuclear Free Press and consultant to the award-winning film Uranium.

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http://sites.google.com/site/cleangreensaskca/Home/jim-harding-s-column

Jim has a regular weekly column in R Town News, papers that serve many towns in rural Saskatchewan. R Town and Jim have kindly given permission for us to post his column our our website as well. Please feel free to copy and distribute to others as long as you acknowledge the source.

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http://nuclear-news.net/2010/03/23/canadian-doctors-protest-uranium-mining-threaten-to-resign/
http://www.cbc.ca/canada/montreal/story/2010/03/22/mtl-uranium-sept-iles-doctors.html

Anti-uranium doctors renew threat to resign
Last Updated: Monday, March 22, 2010 | 3:31 PM ET
CBC News


Hundreds of protesters gathered in Sept-Îles, Que., in December to protest against uranium exploration in Quebec.

Nearly two-dozen doctors in Sept-Îles, Que., are renewing their threats to resign and leave the province after the government rejected calls for a moratorium on uranium mining and exploration in the region.

The province decided against a moratorium before hearing from a provincial panel researching the health effects of uranium mining, said psychiatrist Dr. Isabelle Gingras, one of the north shore doctors who is threatening to resign.

In December, Dr. Alain Poirier, the chief public health officer in Quebec, announced the creation of a special committee to study the potential effects of uranium exploration and mining on the health of the population.

Gingras is a member of the committee, which was set up after 23 doctors at the Sept-Îles Hospital threatened to resign unless the province banned uranium mining and exploration, which they called a threat to public health.

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http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=102x4172679

Quebec unmoved in standoff with doctors

Source: Globe and Mail

The Quebec government is resisting calls for a moratorium on the development of uranium deposits in the province despite threats by doctors in Sept-Îles to quit over plans to open a mine near the town.
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Physicians in the North Shore community spent the last year fighting mining company Terra Ventures Inc.'s exploration activities. The doctors, municipal officials, community organizations and residents are worried about potential radioactive contamination of the town's water supply.
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“Fearing for the health of the population, our personal health and that of our families, especially our children, we have decided to leave the region, and for many of us, even the province,” the doctors said in a letter sent Thursday to Quebec Health Minister Yves Bolduc.
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“I looked at the list and you have anesthetists, a lung specialist, surgeons, gynecologists. I'm telling you that the hospital won't be able to function without them. It wouldn't be able to if only five of them left,” said Lorraine Richard, the Parti Québécois Member of the National Assembly for Sept-Îles.
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Read more: http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/national/quebec-unmoved-in-standoff-with-doctors/article1389964