By Jacqueline St. Pierre, Local Journalism Initiative Reporter, The Manitoulin Expositor NAIRN CENTRE\u2014There\u2019s a billboard coming soon to Highway 17, but don\u2019t expect it to advertise fresh eggs or firewood. Instead, it\u2019ll be a warning. A cry from the crossroads. In the Township of Nairn and Hyman\u2014better known as Nairn Centre\u2014the 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\u2014bound for the old uranium mine at Agnew Lake. \u201cThey told us we were consulted in June,\u201d says Mayor Amy Mazey, shaking her head. \u201cBut that consultation was a page-and-a-half long. An email.\u201d The… <\/p>\n
By Jacqueline St. Pierre, Local Journalism Initiative Reporter, The Manitoulin Expositor NAIRN CENTRE\u2014There\u2019s a billboard coming soon to Highway 17, but don\u2019t expect it to advertise fresh eggs or firewood. Instead, it\u2019ll be a warning. A cry from the crossroads. In the Township of Nairn and Hyman\u2014better known as Nairn Centre\u2014the 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\u2014bound for the old uranium mine at Agnew Lake. \u201cThey told us we were consulted in June,\u201d says Mayor Amy Mazey, shaking her head. \u201cBut that consultation was a page-and-a-half long. An email.\u201d The... <\/p>\n