Uranium

Le Canada est le plus important pays producteur et exportateur d'uranium au monde. Or les résidus des mines d'où est extrait ce métal se transforment à l'air libre en une douzaine d'autres substances radioactives dont certaines sont extrêmement dangereuses... et dont les effets sont incontrôlables. Si l'exploitation se poursuit au rythme de 1988, l'industrie nucléaire produira, avant dix ans, 250 millions de tonnes de résidus radioactifs qui continueront à contaminer nos rivières, à spolier nos terres et à empoisonner la chaîne alimentaire pour des centaines de milliers d'années... POUR TOUJOURS! Ne serait-il pas temps de réagir?

Nain is a remote Inuit community on the coast of Labrador that has existed peacefully for two hundred years. Now, one of the worlds largest deposits of nickel and copper has been discovered 50 kilometres away, at Voisey Bay. As commercial interests prepare to exploit the regions natural resources, Nain finds itself standing in the eye of a storm. The promise of sudden wealth and jobs for all is clouded by the spectre of environmental damage, the unsettled question of Aboriginal land claims, and the influx of hundreds of newcomers which will, inevitably, bring with it a new set of social problems. These issues have already created divisions among the people of the town. Some are eager to benefit from the coming economic boom, while others see the changes as threatening a way of life which has been successful for generations. A storm of social, political and economic forces is about to be unleashed on the residents of Nain. It will change their lives forever.

The Copper Inuit of the Coronation Gulf region of Canada's Northwest Territories were among the last Indigenous groups to be contacted by people from outside, mainly during the early years of the 20th century. When Doctor R.D. Martin arrived in Coppermine in 1929, he had to deal with one of the consequences of that contact, a tuberculosis epidemic.