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By Mike Stimpson, Local Journalism Initiative Reporter\u00a0 THUNDER BAY \u2013 Pays Plat First Nation member Sharlene Bourdeau Waboose was clear about her reason for participating in Wednesday\u2019s rally at Waverley Park. \u201cBecause Pays Plat is against the burial of nuclear waste in the North,\u201d she said just before the rally got underway. Leaders \u201chave to think of the next seven generations,\u201d she said, and the deep geological repository\u2019s proponents \u201care not thinking of the next seven generations. \u201cI’m thinking of a couple of hundred years from now. Something that\u2019s manmade is not going to last, then it\u2019s going to poison the environment.\u201d Bourdeau Waboose was among nearly 200 people who gathered in the north-side city park for a rally against nuclear waste storage in Northwestern Ontario. Julia Rusnak, a Lac… <\/p>\n

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By Mike Stimpson, Local Journalism Initiative Reporter\u00a0 THUNDER BAY \u2013 Pays Plat First Nation member Sharlene Bourdeau Waboose was clear about her reason for participating in Wednesday\u2019s rally at Waverley Park. \u201cBecause Pays Plat is against the burial of nuclear waste in the North,\u201d she said just before the rally got underway. Leaders \u201chave to think of the next seven generations,\u201d she said, and the deep geological repository\u2019s proponents \u201care not thinking of the next seven generations. \u201cI’m thinking of a couple of hundred years from now. Something that\u2019s manmade is not going to last, then it\u2019s going to poison the environment.\u201d Bourdeau Waboose was among nearly 200 people who gathered in the north-side city park for a rally against nuclear waste storage in Northwestern Ontario. Julia Rusnak, a Lac... <\/p>\n

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