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Uranium: Correspondence with the Premier. Umining N-Saskatchewan (1979)

Auteur	Bill Harding
Datum	april 1979
Classificatie	3.02.5.10/11 (CANADA - URANIUMMIJNBOUW)
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Foreword

The province of Saskatchewan contains one of the largest proven reserves of 
uranium in the world. The past few years have seen a high level of exploration 
activity and a number of unusual finds.
One such find at Cluff Lake in the Carswell Lake area, has a highly concentrated ore 
body. It is controlled by a foreign multinational, Amok, whose shareholders are 
three French private companies and a French state-owned corporation.
Controversy developed during 1976, particularly within the New Democratic Party, 
about the opening of a uranium mine at Cluff Lake. Subsequently, the NDP 
Government, on February 1, 1977, appointed a Board of Inquiry to recommend 
''whether the project should proceed, should not proceed, or proceed subject to 
specified conditions." Mr. Justice E.D. Bayda was appointed Chairman of the Inquiry.
The Board of Inquiry reported favorably on the project on May 31, 1978. Eight days 
later the Government accepted its major recommendations. The debate on this 
decision is continuing.
The exchange of letters on the uranium question which is presented in this book 
originated with an open letter from Bill Harding to Saskatchewan Premier Allan 
Blakeney when the recent provincial election was announced. Mr. Harding claimed 
he was effectively disenfranchised. The open letter also appeared in the 
Saskatchewan press.

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