Cameco's Saskatchewan Secrets Part 1

This is part one of a two-part Radioactive Show special, looking at the uranium mining industry in the north of the Canadian province, Saskatchewan. The industry is dominated by one company, Cameco, and it is omnipresent. The people of Saskatchewan have been dealing with Cameco for more than 30 years, and their story is a painful one of community divisions, illness, censorship and radioactive contamination of their lands and traditional food sources. Do these voices foreshadow the experience of the Kintyre Traditional Owners, who are challenging Cameco's plans to open Western Australia's first uranium mine?

Guests:

Candyce Paul, Committee for Future Generations, English River First Nation, Saskatchewan

Marius Paul, Committee for Future Generations, English River First Nation, Saskatchewan

Jim Harding, author of “Canada's Deadly Secret”, retired Professor of Environmental Studies, Saskatchewan resident

Kirsten Scansen, Cree activist from La Ronge, Saskatchewan

Photo: Community pot-luck to share nuclear free strategies and stories in Beauval, Saskatchewan, Canada, May 2015.