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Kerrie Blaise and M.V. Ramana

Kerrie Blaise is an environmental lawyer based in northern Ontario whose practice includes energy and nuclear law; she is also a member of the Canadian and International Nuclear Law Associations. M.V. Ramana is the Simons Chair in Disarmament, Global and Human Security and director of the Liu Institute for Global Issues at the School of Public Policy and Global Affairs, University of British Columbia, in Vancouver, and a scholar at the Peter Wall Institute for Advanced Studies.

Plan to import nuclear waste raises larger questions about plans to deal with domestic nuclear waste

The CBC's Enquete recently reported that former prime minister Jean Chrétien, picture here on March 3, 2020, in Ottawa, was part of a secretive project to set up a repository in Labrador to store radioactive nuclear waste. Since then, Newfoundland and Labrador Premier Andrew Furey and federal Natural Resources Minister Seamus O’Regan have declared that the proposal is dead. The Hill Times photograph by Andrew Meade
The CBC's Enquete recently reported that former prime minister Jean Chrétien, picture here on March 3, 2020, in Ottawa, was part of a secretive project to set up a repository in Labrador to store radioactive nuclear waste. Since then, Newfoundland and Labrador Premier Andrew Furey and federal Natural Resources Minister Seamus O’Regan have declared that the proposal is dead. The Hill Times photograph by Andrew Meade