By Jacqueline St. Pierre, Local Journalism Initiative Reporter, The Manitoulin Expositor NAIRN CENTRE—There’s a billboard coming soon to Highway 17, but don’t expect it to advertise fresh eggs or firewood. Instead, it’ll be a warning. A cry from the crossroads. In the Township of Nairn and Hyman—better known as Nairn Centre—the people have been handed a binder full of questions and a province full of silence. At a recent public meeting, frustration boiled over as residents learned that radioactive niobium tailings from a former mill site near Nipissing First Nation may soon be trucked into their backyard—bound for the old uranium mine at Agnew Lake. “They told us we were consulted in June,” says Mayor Amy Mazey, shaking her head. “But that consultation was a page-and-a-half long. An email.” The…
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