Uranium News

Hello, dear readers,

here's the latest Uranium news. All previous editions can be looked up on ccamu's website: www.ccamu.ca. Looking forward to some feedback for the Toronto events today and Wednesday (KI appeal, s.b.). Check back soon for Michael Swinwood video footage when he appeared as a friend of court in the Kingston courthouse in March 08.

URANIUM NEWS
http://www.ccamu.ca

MAY 24, 2008


IN THIS ISSUE:

1) PRESS RELEASE: KI 6 TO BE RELEASED TODAY, BOB LOVELACE TO REMAIN INCARCERATED
2) AAFN MEETING MABERLY HALL SUNDAY
3) URANIUM PRODUCER WARNS OF LAKE ONTARIO POLLUTION
4) YOUTUBE VIDEO: DEPLETED URANIUM IN THE HUMAN BODY
5) DONNA DILLMAN LOOKING FOR A RIDE
6) NEW BRUSWICK: URANIUM PUBLIC SESSIONS PLANNED
7) ARTICLE: BRUCE COX DEFENDS GREENPEACE (AND TAKES ON PATRICK MOORE)
8) TIRELESS ANTI-URANIUM ACTIVIST DIES AT AGE 93
9) LETTER TO THE EDITOR: BILL ADAMSON
10) LETTER TO THE URANIUM NEWS: THE LAW IS WRONG!
11) ARTICLE: CAMECO TESTING FOR URANIUM LEAK IN LAKE ONTARIO
12) ARTICLE: BARRICK GOLD PROTESTERS COME TO ARDOCH
13) ARTICLE: STAR-LADEN LOVELACE BENEFIT SELLS OUT
14) ARTICLE: THE URANIUM BOOM HITS WESTERN U.S.
15) ARTICLE: URANIUM SHORTAGE HITS NUCLEAR POWER


1) PRESS RELEASE: KI 6 TO BE RELEASED TODAY, BOB LOVELACE TO REMAIN INCARCERATED

A motion was heard today in Toronto asking for the immediate release of political prisoners Bob Lovelace, and the KI 6 pending the appeal of the sentencing for contempt which will be heard on Wednesday May 28.

Members of KI will be released today because Platinex, the platinum exploration company operating within their lands prior to the blockade, agreed to no drilling during this week leading up to the appeal. Frontenac Ventures, on the other hand, refused to make a similar guarantee to refrain from exploration work in Algonquin territory. Such a gesture would have allowed Bob Lovelace to be released pending the appeal under the same circumstances as KI leaders and council members. Bob Lovelace, therefore is to remain incarcerated and will be transported to the appeal hearing on Wednesday.

For more information on what transpired in court today, contact Chris Reid who is legal council for both Ardoch First Nation and KI.

He can be reached at 1-416-466-9928 or lawreid@aol.com

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2) AAFN MEETING MABERLY HALL SUNDAY

Ardoch Algonquin First Nation will be having its regular council meeting at Maberly Hall on Sunday and the public is invited to join them at 3:30 for a general meeting and update on the uranium issue.

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3) URANIUM PRODUCER WARNS OF LAKE ONTARIO POLLUTION

(Editor's Note: What does the American media know that our Canadian media ignores? -LD)

By IAN AUSTEN
May 22, 2008
The News York Times

OTTAWA — Cameco, the world’s largest uranium producer, has told the Canadian nuclear regulator that its refinery might have leaked uranium, arsenic and fluorides into Lake Ontario.

To read the rest of this article go to,

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/05/22/business/worldbusiness/22pollute.html?_r=2&adxnnl=1&oref=slogin&adxnnlx=1211555119-jpMqdMVxS9oLzE0laQtsFw

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4) YOUTUBE VIDEO: DEPLETED URANIUM IN THE HUMAN BODY

A video of Sister Rosalie Bertell, PhD.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WgQ79-oDX2o

Event: An Afternoon with Rosalie Bertell Ph.D.
Bloor Street United Church
300 Bloor Street West, Toronto Ontario
May 31st 1:30pm - 3:30pm

CCAMU's Donna Dillman will be speaking at this event.

To read the bio of the Anti-nuclear Nun go to,

http://www.ratical.org/radiation/RBanNun.html

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5) DONNA DILLMAN LOOKING FOR A RIDE

Donna Dillman is looking for a ride from Toronto to the Lanark/Perth area on the late afternoon or evening of Sat. May 31st. She will be attending the rally at Queen's Park and staying over in Toronto to take part in (and say a few words at) the Rosalie Bertell Luncheon from 1:30 to 3:30 on the Sat.

Please email her directly at donna54@superaje.com

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6) NEW BRUSWICK: URANIUM PUBLIC SESSIONS PLANNED

Public sessions planned on controversial uranium issue

May 20th, 2008
The Daily Gleaner

The provincial government will hold public information sessions on uranium exploration and mining in Fredericton and Moncton next month.

"Our primary focus is ensuring that New Brunswickers have all the facts about uranium exploration and mining," Natural Resources Minister Donald Arseneault said in a news release.

To read the rest of this article go to,

http://dailygleaner.canadaeast.com/cityregion/article/301105

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7) ARTICLE: BRUCE COX DEFENDS GREENPEACE (AND TAKES ON PATRICK MOORE)

May 20, 2008
By Marni Soupcoff

Patrick Moore used an article about himself in the National Post on May 1 to launch yet another tirade against Greenpeace (Full Comment, May 12.)

In his article, he accuses Greenpeace and other environmental groups of “name-calling.” For the record, no one with Greenpeace called him any names in the article and no one from Greenpeace Canada was even quoted.

Mr. Moore took offence at the term “Eco Judas,” referenced by the writer. It may be harsh, but consider this: Mr. Moore left Greenpeace and now works for the nuclear industry, logging companies, the fish-farm industry and other large corporations he once opposed. His positions on climate change, nuclear power, clear cutting forests and uranium mining are the opposite of every major environmental organization in the country. How should one characterize his behaviour?

To read the rest of this article go to,

http://network.nationalpost.com/np/blogs/fullcomment/archive/2008/05/20/bruce-cox-defends-greenpeace-and-takes-on-patrick-moore.aspx

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8) TIRELESS ANTI-URANIUM ACTIVIST DIES AT AGE 93


For those who didn't know her, she was a giant among activists.

http://www.econet.sk.ca/sk_enviro_champions/maisie_shiell.html

I first met her in 1977, during the Bayda Inquiry Into Uranium Mining in Saskatchewan, and was immediately struck by her strength of character and her keen determination to understand the science as well as the societal sanity needed to confront this multibillion dollar industry.

In February 19 2008 I was in Saskatoon submitting my comments on Cameco's Environmental Impact Statement for the Midwest Uranium Project (see attachment below), and there was Maisie, 93 years old, submitting her own comments with characteristic gusto.

Yesterday, May 21, 2008, Maisie passed away. Even in death she continues to inspire and provide leadership.

Gordon Edwards

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9) LETTER TO THE EDITOR: BILL ADAMSON

The Star Phoenix

Uranium cycle gives Saskatchewan "value subtracted" benefits

Government leaders and newspaper editors have glommed onto a new buzzword—“value added” which they repeat ad nauseum regarding the uranium chain. They only have dollar signs shining in their eyes, only jobs and business on the brain. They do not have the honesty to mention the other sides of the equation. They do not list any of the hazards regarding people’s health, effects on the biota or water, the radioactivity released into the air currents. Any one who raises a critique is branded an “anti-nuke radical.”

**No mention of Dr. Chris Busby of England, specialist in radiation and epidemiology, stating that the proposed open-pit mine at Midwest will send radioactive dust and radon gas on the wind currents sweeping down across Winnipeg!

**No mention of the presentation by Dr. Gordon Edwards warning that the regulatory limits of radiation exposure do not provide a guarantee against adverse health effects, and that radium -226 and polonium -210 and thorium contained in millions of tonnes of mining wastes will emit alpha radiation for thousands of years.

**No mention that the European Committee on Radiation Risk proclaims that our radiation exposure limits are twice too high—with lots of cancer down the road for our workers.

**No mention that the tritium levels in the Great Lakes is rising rapidly from the nearby reactors in Ontario.

**No mention of increased radiation swirling in the wind currents of the planet from thousands of bomb tests, the Gulf War, Three Mile Island and Chernobyl meltdowns, plus the fall out of depleted uranium from ammunition.

**No mention of 30,000 cubic metres of water per day used in conversion refineries.

**No mention of thousands of boreholes releasing radon into the air, and contamination into our aquifers.

**No mention that Wall Street is very reluctant to supply $12 billion for each reactor, taking many years for construction before electrical production.

Members of the public are not dumb when they do their equations!

-Bill Adamson

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10) LETTER TO THE URANIUM NEWS: THE LAW IS WRONG!

Please advertise the recent documentary Toxic Trespass released last Wednesday night.

I am not a TV watcher but somehow was there to see this startling program at 10 pm on TVO.

There is more information at www.toxictrespass.ca and www.toxicnation.ca and at www.TVOparent.

It directly aligns with the message that you are doing such a wonderful job to send to everyone.

I will be the next grandmother to go on a hunger strike if the government does not come to its senses very, very soon!

I am the worm lady. We raise earthworms and teach the healthy soil food web to school children and we encourage personal responsibility for organic waste recycling through composting and we grow healthy food to feed people.

I cannot just continue to do my little bit of good when the government who is supposed to be caring for the people and the justice system that is supposed to be protecting the people is doing so much harm.

I can only believe that to not react they are only stuffing their own pockets financially and waiting for someone else to clean up their dirty act.

It is this total lack of responsibility and passing the blame that has led to the problems we are faced with and it is now up to every single citizen to demand accountability by government.

Bob Lovelace should not be in jail. Michael Schmidt should not be in court.

The law is wrong!

Geraldine Baker

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11) ARTICLE: CAMECO TESTING FOR URANIUM LEAK IN LAKE ONTARIO

By Unnati Gandhi

The Goble & Mail

May 23, 2008

The world's largest uranium producer is looking into whether the element, along with arsenic and fluorides, might have leaked into Lake Ontario from its Port Hope processing plant.

To read the rest of this article go to,

http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/LAC.20080523.CAMECO23/TPStory/TPNational/Ontario/

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12) ARTICLE: BARRICK GOLD PROTESTERS COME TO ARDOCH

By Jeff Green
Frontenac News

May 14th

Leaders from aboriginal communities in New South Wales, Australia, Papua New Guinea, and Chile paid a visit to Ardoch Algonquin First Nation Honourary Chief Harold Perry this past weekend. They were on their way to Ottawa, where they will be meeting with MPs in a bid to convince them to ask Canada to rein in the worldwide activities of Canadian-owned Barrick Gold Corporation.

To read the rest of this article go to,

http://www.newsweb.ca/2008/08-19_may_15/barrick_gold.html

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13) ARTICLE: STAR-LADEN LOVELACE BENEFIT SELLS OUT

The Kingston Whig-Standard

A star-studded benefit concert to raise money for imprisoned Algonquin protester Bob Lovelace has sold out.

To read the rest of this article go to,

http://www.thewhig.com/ArticleDisplay.aspx?e=1031068

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14) ARTICLE: THE URANIUM BOOM HITS WESTERN U.S.

May 19, 2008

By Richard Martin
Energy Tribune

Thanks to soaring commodity prices, the U.S. uranium mining sector is enjoying a comeback – and that is causing conflict in several western states.

To read the rest of this article go to,

http://www.energytribune.com/articles.cfm?aid=892

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15) ARTICLE: URANIUM SHORTAGE HITS NUCLEAR POWER

Some of the uranium mining projects have been hampered due to delay in getting environmental clearances and also on account of the difficult terrain in which the mines are located

May 21, 2008
The Hindu Business Line

Mumbai- May 20 Shortage of uranium and a shut-down at four plants dragged down revenues and profit of Nuclear Power Corporation of India Ltd for the fiscal ended March 2008.

To read the rest of this article go to,

http://www.thehindubusinessline.com/2008/05/21/stories/2008052152480100.htm