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This film examines uranium mining in Canada, where toxic and radioactive waste create long-term environmental hazards and miners face a higher cancer risk. Most mining occurs on Indigenous land, disrupting traditional ways of life.
- Directors
- Magnus Isacsson
- Cast
- Buffy Sainte-Marie
- Country
- Canada
- Genre
- Documentary
- Release date
- 1990-11-07
- Studios
- ONF / NFB
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The documentary explores the consequences of uranium mining in Canada, focusing on the profound and long-term environmental hazards posed by toxic and radioactive waste. It notes that miners suffer a substantially increased risk of cancer and that most mining takes place on Indigenous People's land, violating their traditional economic and spiritual lives. Given our limited knowledge of the risks, it asks why mining continues.
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