One of life's ironies just appeared today.
The Quebec mineral exploration association is all worked up about the potential loss of "rights" to exploration within municipal boundaries as predicated by Bill 14.
The association says: “We are entering a stage where companies and individuals, who feel their rights have been deprived and who have not been given a chance to negotiate, feel that, in order to have their rights respected, their only recourse is legal action."
To that we say: Welcome to the world of rural private property owners. Land owners have been facing a similar reality for generations. The state, for many decades, has granted conflicting surface and subsurface rights creating needless conflict between land owners and mineral prospectors.
Now that the balance is starting to be restored the prospectors are getting upset. It's easy to empathize but sympathy is out of the question.
WQ-CAMU / COQCEU
We are a community group that works to protect our human, environmental, and economic health from the risks associated with uranium. Our goal is to obtain a permanent moratorium on uranium exploration, mining, and processing in MRC du Pontiac and MRC des Collines de l'Outaouais. To meet this goal our group advocates, educates, and builds coalitions.
Nous sommes un groupe communautaire travaillant à la protection de la santé humaine, environnementale et économique des risques associés à l'uranium. Notre objectif principal est d'obtenir un moratoire à long terme sur l'exploration et l'exploitation d'uranium dans la MRC du Pontiac et dans la MRC des Collines de l'Outaouais. Afin d'y parvenir, notre groupe défend, éduque et bâtit des coalitions.
More information: wq-camu@know-uranium.org
Nous sommes un groupe communautaire travaillant à la protection de la santé humaine, environnementale et économique des risques associés à l'uranium. Notre objectif principal est d'obtenir un moratoire à long terme sur l'exploration et l'exploitation d'uranium dans la MRC du Pontiac et dans la MRC des Collines de l'Outaouais. Afin d'y parvenir, notre groupe défend, éduque et bâtit des coalitions.
More information: wq-camu@know-uranium.org
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