Northerners Say No To Nuclear Waste in Saskatchewan
The Committee For Future Generations is a group from Northern Saskatchewan raising awareness about the possibility of a nuclear waste dump coming to this province. Support from the north is building, and the group is demanding a province-wide ban on nuclear waste storage & transportation.
The 7000 Generations Walk left Pinehouse Lake on July 27 headed to Regina, and met with Saskatchewan residents along the route, collecting petitions & connecting with people from all walks of life on this important issue. Check out pictures from the road.
"The purpose of our Walk is to wake people up to the reality that northern Saskatchewan is being targeted to store millions of used nuclear bundles which would be highly radioactive for hundreds of thousands of years. We will carry a petition to the Legislature that people may sign, directing the government to legislate a ban on nuclear waste storage and transportation in our province"....read more...
“And lastly I just want to say the North doesn’t owe NWMO (Nuclear Waste Management Organization) or the government anything, we don’t owe them anything. They woke up this rock
and transformed it and it went out of control on them, we don’t
owe them anything to take this dangerous ore back here.”
- Max Morin, Committee for Future Generations, June 24, 2011-
Five Aboriginal Youth Were Honoured for their participation in the 7000 Generations Walk, read the article in Eagle Feather News, February 2012. Congratulations & Thank You!!
T-Shirts Available!! w/7000 Generations Logo "Mother and Child" Painting (graphic on left side of this page) donated by Dene Artist Marius Paul.
"Wake Up" in 4 languages: Cree, Dene, French and English Sizes M, L for $30; mail cheque to: Committee for Future Generations, Box 155, Beauval SK., SOM OGO
Here are a few things you can do to support this important campaign:
"Wanska!" is Cree for "Get up!" and "Nah-the-ruhn-dehl" means "Lift up your head, all of you" in Dene.
Painting of Mother and Child by local Dene Artist Marius Paul; graphics by local Dene Artist Candyce Paul and Cree Artist Max Morin.
Get the petition and cover page, circulate among your networks.
Make a financial contribution
Read and circulate the Open Letter to the people of Saskatchewan.
Listen to Committee members Max & Debby Morin talk about the birth of this group on Making the Links with Don Kossick, and Human Rights Radio.
Visit the group's Facebook page "Say No To Nuclear Waste Storage in Northern Saskatchewan"
Write a letter to your MLA, or a Letter to the Editor.
Form a chapter of Committee For Future Generations in your community.
Contact the Committee for Future Generation <committeeforfuturegenerations@gmail.com> to find out how you can support the campaign.
7000 Generations Walk News Coverage
The Committee for Future Generations held a Forum on Nuclear Waste in Beauval on June 2, 2011
Here is some of the coverage following the meeting:
Push-back from Pinehouse (CBC Blog)
Meadow Lake Progress
Northern communities discuss nuclear waste
Northern Pride
Northern forum confronts nuclear waste storage in Saskatchewan
Saskatchewan Government needs to listen
R-Town News - Jim Harding's regular column
Why the Northern Saskatchewan Forum voted to ban nuclear wastes
CBC Radio Bluesky Phone In June 3, 2011
Nuclear waste storage in Northern Saskatchewan
News coverage of the walk:
Walk against nuclear waste to challenge NWMO
Nuke waste opposition grows: residents seek ban on dump
Group begins trek to legislature: industry defends its plan
Northern protesters begin 820-km walk
Informed choice should be made on nuclear waste
Anti-nuclear walk gains international support
Group protests potential nuclear waste facility in Sask | News Talk 650 CKOM
Nuclear storage needs study - SP Editorial
Meet Opponents (Letter in response to SP Editorial)
Stop Nukes Now (Letter in response to SP Editorial)
Nuclear waste protest walk reaches steps of legislature
Saskatchewan walk against nuclear waste (this is a Canadian Press story printed nationally, including the Globe & Mail. Video will play after short commercial)
Life is Precious - Don't Waste It (Planet S)
Max Morin talks about why people say no to NWMO.
This YouTube video was created by Thomas Schöne who was at the City Hall event on August 8. Thanks Thomas
