Comments on: Algonquin land to be mined for uranium. Ongoing blockade. Help Requested.

By: Sameer Gupta

Sameer Gupta — Mon, 21 Apr 2008 21:30:56 +0000

Dissapointed… They do not even ask permission even though they knew it was aborigonal people’s lands… dissapointed

By: Ant Bee

Ant Bee — Fri, 07 Sep 2007 20:05:12 +0000

Frontenac Ventures picked the wrong forest to mess with, us settlers stand arm in arm with our native brothers and sisters, As long as the Algonquin hold the blockade sight , we will bring them food, medicine or any thing they need, we just hooked them up with high speed inter-net,and food & wood for the winter. Are numbers are growing fast. we have the dragon by the tail.

By: John Leblanc

John Leblanc — Thu, 09 Aug 2007 15:07:05 +0000

FVC Corporate
Management & Board
Board of Directors
Anthony DeWerth (Chairman)
George White
Joel Lipshitz
Here are the board members of Frontenac Ventures Corp

Jack Kirkland
Jim Honsberge
Officers
George White (President & CEO)
David Callander (Treasurer)
Scott White (Secretary)
Jack Kirkland (Counsel)
Technical & Geological Advisors
Dr. Sethu Raman
F. Chris Harvey
Terrence Bottrill

By: John Leblanc

John Leblanc — Thu, 09 Aug 2007 14:31:01 +0000

They take our lands and tell us it’s for our better good, and we fall back.
They harvest our meat and tell us it;s for their tables, and we fall back.
They separate our people locating them in 3 different reserves and we fall back.
No more. We have drawn the line, no more will white man’s lies and broken treaties convice the people that this company and mines are good for the people. The will be no baking away from this resolve. They speak about the enironment and how they want to clean it up. Too long have we heard words like this, but all lies and then to find out land has been sold that is clearly algonquin. No more. no more. no more will we allow the rape of the environment, Nokomis(Motherearth) is dying, and we along with her, she sends out signals of this everyday, but the old ways are lost and forgotton and the lessons learned have been forgotten.

To Frontac Cancer causing company, Back off this land will never be surrendered for this operation. Pack your trucks up and GET OUT.

John Leblanc
Kitigan Zibi
Kikinamadinan

By: Ahni

Ahni — Thu, 02 Aug 2007 00:05:43 +0000

Hi Ann. I don’t know to what extent or detail, but I’m sure everyone’s well aware of the consequences of mining uranium. (see here)

You could always contact Chief Paula Sherman to make sure.

You’re absolutely right, it’s now or never—but it’s unfortunate that corporations don’t ever seem to learn respect.

By: Ann

Ann — Wed, 01 Aug 2007 21:04:16 +0000

We just have to look to what is happening on Lakota land in N and S. Dakota to see what happens when mining companies come to mine uranium.
If they are not made to care about the Algonquin people now, why would they care later after they bring up these dangerous pollutants (with all the residual problems such as toxins entering the water table etc).

I wonder also if all the people in this area are aware of the effect that mining companies generally have on the land, and water when mining uranium. I can’t imagine people know what really happens.

By: Ahni

Ahni — Sun, 15 Jul 2007 13:37:31 +0000

Hi Susan. This situation is not
not so much about a few mining personnel trespassing — it’s more about the Canadian government illegally usurping the land, and then selling it to the Company. And on top of that, we find out that’s all about uranium, etc…

This is the exact same thing that happened in Caledonia…

To answer your question (how they can do this) it’s because they can. Governments have no sets of laws to which they must abide — they are pretty much free to do whatever they want, and so often they do just that, without ever having to worry about consequences (that’s true everywhere) - I mean, who’s going to stop them?

Taking them to court is no guarantee of anything here. Especially since, what would likely happen is the company would just continue with their plan through the hearings.

Then if the court ruled in favour of the Algonquins, the company would appeal — Then they’d go back to court in say 10 months… throughout which the mining would continue.
Canada might even be obliged to step in, on behalf of the company..

And ultimately, the only discussion Canada will offer to the Algonquin is talk of money… as if Canada is offering to pay the Algonquins for stealing their land

It’s very twisted, but this is the way it always goes.

By: Susan Jankot

Susan Jankot — Fri, 13 Jul 2007 01:35:55 +0000

I do not understand how if this is legally property of the Algoquin Nation how the mining company personnel have not been arrested for trespass and the damage they have done on it.

By: Michael McLaughlin

Michael McLaughlin — Wed, 11 Jul 2007 23:33:17 +0000

Governments subsidize development, either through obtaining resources to distribute to corporations, or as socialist governments do, directly to their constituents.

Canada and the US seek to increase power and energy usage, equating that growth with health and life.
The waters, the creatures, and the Na Dene people, of Arizona have suffered great ill from uranium extraction. Such evidence as can be obtained needs to be presented to the department overseeing allowance of this offense.

Just as adult humans cease growing physically, so must their social and developmental institutions cease.

Now that habitats have been so fragmented that free passage for all creatures is prevented, the growth stage of governments, and takers of the land has been exceeded.
Now such organizations and decisions allowing taking and using are merely suffocating the earth.

By: Stanley Green

Stanley Green — Wed, 11 Jul 2007 07:24:27 +0000

Wealthy corporations have one main objective. The bottomline is profit. It doesn’t matter how or who may suffer. Yet, there may be another side that is often forgotten. What does it profit any man to gain the entire world, and lose his own soul?