lenaitch
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Plus a lot more real estate, FNs, treaties and commuities 'twixt there are where the waste will come from.Yup ...
... but still showing cracks in the unified organization facades, too (first article from 2022, second article from this past September)
Grassy Narrows Says No to Nuclear Waste Storage
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Anishinaabe Nation in Treaty #3 and Nuclear Waste Management Organization renew Relationship Agreement - Grand Council Treaty #3
On October 5, 2022 at Lac Seul First Nation, Treaty #3 Chiefs in Assembly passed a resolution by consensus to renew the ongoing relationship with the Nuclear Waste Management Organization (NWMO). The relationship agreement between Grand Council Treaty #3 (GCT3) does not consent or imply any...gct3.ca
To give you a sense of what's where, here's the Treaty 3 area map, with the black spot in the middle the approximate area of the proposed nuclear waste dump site, and the FNs mentioned above highlighted in yellow (for scale, a straight line between Thunder Bay and Winnipeg is a hair under 600 km according to Google Maps):
Onigaming chief resigns from Treaty 3 panel
“I worry Grand Council Treaty #3 has chosen to accept money from NWMO that will open the door to nuclear waste being buried near our lakes, rivers and waterways.”www.nwonewswatch.com
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A good reminder to anyone who thinks one can get a single, unified position on most things among any group of FNs - yeah, it can happen, but it only takes a few (or even one) to throw things for a loop.
Nah, then you have the pesky tourists and Americans who own the other half of the lake.
The federal government has formally adopted the UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples into Statute. That declaration calls for the "free, prior and informed consent in decisions that affect them, their communities and territories", which goes beyond mere consultation. One problem is, the parameters are, so far, poorly defined. What is 'traditional territory'? What is consent? Unanimity? Consensus? Who speaks for them? Traditional or Elected? Do BC nations get a vote because it is all 'turtle island'?That's the thing about dealing with FNs. Big Nuke Burial (BNB) is quoted saying there were "discussions" with the FN, while the FN is claiming they were rejected. BNB's page doesn't even list Eagle Lake as a place they "studied".
Did the "discussion" meet the legal definition of "consultation"? We'll see.
Areas No Longer Being Studied | NWMO
A list of areas that are no longer involved in the site selection process.www.nwmo.ca
Also, even though the federal Minister of Natural Resources is named, some say the Federal Court can only review decisions of government, not NGO's like BNB.
NEVER out of the question. Could also be background stuff between the FN going to court and the "winning" or other FNs. FN politics, like most politics, can sometimes be a wilderness of mirrors.
Municipality of Saugeen was good to go, Saugeen Ojibway Nation still wasn't ready to decide, so early bird, worms and all that. Coming back to SKT's points, though, FN leaders there were underwhelmed with the result as well:
Eagle Lake says "they dumped us unreasonably", while Saugeen Ojibway says "hey, they didn't even let us do our own internal consultation in our own time."
As I mentioned above, in addition to litigation, this sort of thing'll need an environmental assessment process, which could potentially drag in folks from almost all over, given some of the waste would have to travel from as far away as Quebec and New Brunswick to NW Ontario. Would anyone along the route not impressed with the stuff coming through be willing to lawyer up? We'll see ...
Saugeen FN were considering the matter 'in our own time'. The project has been going on since 2012. Can an individual FN grind something down by simply not voting? Who do they think they are? Parliament?
Other remote crossings'll be the same - slow now, but maybe not so much down the road?
