Algonquin and Uranium Mining

The standoff over uranium mining at Sharbot Lake just north of Kingston Ontario is not a conflict between “natives and non-natives” as the Globe and Mail suggests. The dispute is between the Indigenous landowners and the mining companies and their colonial government puppets.

Non-natives who want a peaceful and healthy future for their children are rallying in support of the Indigenous owners of the land. In the past week Highways 509 and 7 were blocked to protect our lands and the Ottawa/Mississippi rivers watersheds from radioactive contamination.

A mysterious private company called Frontenac Ventures Corporation has been trespassing on our land so it can extract our resources.

Frontenac is a private company that develops uranium properties in Canada. Their website has three paragraphs with no names, addresses, phone numbers or links for more information. It states they operated four mines between 1957 to 1964 in that area which produced 15 million pounds of uranium from pegmatite ore. Open pit mining is one of their favorite methods. They presently have 400 claims for almost 8,000 hectares on Algonquin territory. They also have claims on property occupied by non-native cottagers who feel totally voiceless. According to their website Frontenac plans “to start aggressive exploration and development immediately”.

It appears that besides mining uranium, they are trying to make a profit by creating nuclear weapons and other instruments of mass destruction in violation of international law.

Frontenac and their cohorts are furious that the Algonquins are denying them access to our land, minerals and the site to dig our uranium and make their bombs. George White even called us eco terrorists, even though there hasn’t been one incidence of violence, except for the mosquitoes and deer flies that are wicked this year!

George White of Frontenac is concerned that the situation is similar to Niger in Africa where companies use armed security to carry out theft of resources there. A foreign corporation is taking somebody else’s resources and the bandits need armed forces to get away with it. In the meantime the land is being devastated and making it uninhabitable for good.

The Algonquins are sovereign and independent who never

surrendered their lands. They are not part of Canada because

they never agreed to join the colonial state and come under

the Indian Act. They remain independent under their own

traditional law and the rules of international law apply.

Kahentinetha Horn, Mohawk Nation News