URANIUM
A film directed by Magnus Isacsson
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University of Ottawa
Friday April 4, 2008
Screening begins 19h30
Venue: MacDonald Hall Auditorium (MCD 146), 150 Louis Pasteur Street, Ottawa, Ontario
Canada – NFB / 1990 / 48 minutes / English
Uranium explores the consequences of uranium mining in Canada. Because of toxic and radioactive waste, there are profound, long-term environmental hazards associated with uranium mining.
For miners who work at the sites, there is the substantially increased risk of getting cancer. And, because most of the mining to date has been on land historically used by Canada's Native populations, uranium mining violates the traditional economic and spiritual lives of many aboriginal people.
Given our limited knowledge of the risks associated with uranium mining, this film questions the validity of its continuation.
Directed by Magnus Isacsson
Produced by Dale Phillips
Production Agency: National Film Board of Canada
Source:
http://www.nfb.ca/collection/films/fiche/?id=18301
Information about Uranium:
http://www.wise-uranium.org/ulite.html
Film review from Peace and Environment News,November 1990:
http://www.perc.ca/PEN/1990-11/sanger.html
Directors youtube page:
http://www.youtube.com/user/misacsson
Documentary filmmaker Magnus Isacsson has received many awards for his work in photography, radio, TV and film. A former producer for the English and French networks of the CBC, he has made more than a dozen independent films since 1986. Often shot over long periods of time, they tell dramatic stories that raise important social and political issues.
Isacsson Films Montage
Related videos about Uranium mining in canada:
DONNA DILLMAN (CCAMU) ANTI-URANIUM MINING PROTEST IN OTTAWA - D8
http://ccamu.ca
Who: Donna Dillman, grandmother who has refused food for 63 days in an effort to stop uranium drilling in Eastern Ontario.
What: If Premier McGuinty has not called a moratorium or an inquiry by Tues., noon, Dillman will cut all nourishment and go to water only.
Why: Once disturbed, uranium is a serious risk to those downstream (in this case her children and grandchildren, and people living in Ottawa) and those not yet born. When dealing with one of the most serious matters on the planet, drastic measures become necessary.
Where: Dillman will remain at the legislature every day until it recesses.
Having waited ten days for Premier McGuinty to get back to her on the question of exports, Donna Dillman, who has been refusing food for 63 days, has now formally requested a meeting with the Premier. "He committed to supplying a response to my inquiry about why we have to put the health of a million people at risk, upstream of Ottawa, when we currently export most of the uranium mined in Canada," Dillman said in a speech at the Climate Change rally on Saturday.
The 53 year-old grandmother, from near the Sharbot Lake uranium drilling site, continued, "I'd hoped it would not come to this, but, as I speak, diamond drills are being readied to penetrate the ground for uranium ore samples upriver of my children and grandchildren. When that happens, radon gas, the second highest cause of lung cancer, will be released into the air."
"When dealing with one of the most serious matters on the planet, drastic measures become necessary. All through this, I have reserved the right to make a new decision every day. Unless I hear, by Tues at noon, that the Premier is calling a public inquiry that would lead to a moratorium, it is my intention to move this protest to water only. In short, I will take no nourishment until such time as the necessary steps are taken to resolve this matter", she said, to applause from the large crowd gathered around her at Queen's Park.
Raging Grannies at Sharbot Lake
The Ottawa Raging Grannies visit hunger striker Donna Dillman at the uranium mining protest site near Sharbot Lake on October 15, 2007.
URANIUM EN QUÉBEC 1977 BAIE JAMES (french)
Video montrant la prospection et les forages pour trouver de l'uranium sur le territoire de la Baie-James en 1977. Prospecting to find Uranium on Baie-James territory around 1977.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JZfmyH_W8JE
Great Bear Lake Uranium Mining
Shows progression of mineral staking for uranium around Great Bear Lake and the recent interest in drilling for an "Olympic Dam" mine at Port Radium. The footprint of the Olympic Dam mine, the largest uranium deposit in the world is overlaid on Port Radium.
Sharbot Lake protests to Uranium Mining
First Nations and CCAMU, Concerned Citizens Against Mining Uranium have held off uranium prospecting on Tribal lands since October, 2006. They continue, but they need help: letters, funds, and activists! Google, Search, Frontenac Ontario Canada Uranium Mining or Sharbot Lake Uranium Mining, Shabot Obaajiwan, or ccamu.com for more info.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rYK3KND6orA
Director, Magnus Isacsson
Producer Dale Phillips
Executive producer, Graydon McCrea
Script, Michael Riordon
Camera, Barry Perles
Sound
Rick Gustavsen
Clancy Livingston
Jeremy Sagar
Yvon Benoît
Editing
Dominique Fortin
Sound editing
André Chaput
Narrator
Buffy Ste-Marie
Music
Michael Becker
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