In this remote town you’re either working at the uranium mines or fighting against them | Black Rock
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 20 ส.ค. 2024
- Growing up in English River First Nation, the uranium mines were always part of Tenille Campbell's life.
Even though she's lived hundreds of kilometres away from English River since she was 18, the mines have remained an important part of her story - on the day after their wedding, her ex-husband had to fly out to the mines to work for two weeks.
But the mines are the only big business in the community. For Tenille, the dream of becoming a writer and photographer meant leaving her hometown for other opportunities. #CBCShortDocs #BlackRock
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When Tenille speaks about the north, she talks about the northern lights and blueberries. The images she captures are full of beauty and laughter. When she talks about how she always imagined living her life up north, you can understand why.
More than a decade after leaving home, Tenille returns an award-winning author and professional photographer. Now, she’s embarking on a new project: telling her community’s story and its complicated relationship with the uranium mines. She’s back to photograph and interview English River’s residents for her gallery show, to showcase the stories and faces of an Indigenous community caught in the boom and bust cycle of the uranium industry.
English River First Nation’s history with the uranium industry has deep roots. For some, like Tom Lariviere (who has been working in the mines since the '70s), "the mines have improved the quality of living up here in the north."
But not everyone agrees. English River First Nation residents Marius and Candyce Paul have spent the last two decades fighting what they call "the invasion" of the nuclear and uranium industries in the north. They've fought English River’s collaboration deal with the uranium companies, and the nuclear waste dump proposal in their community. They're concerned about the possible contamination of their lands and the possible health impacts on their people, so they've started collecting data on radioactivity in their community. They’ve also established a whistleblower’s hotline for miners to report any issues or concerns that may impact the land or the people at the mines.
But in a town where the only significant source of employment is the uranium industry, fighting against it can be a lonely road. Black Rock follows Marius and Candyce Paul on their journey searching for the truth, in an attempt to protect and preserve their lands for their future generations.
The film follows the intertwining stories of a remote community, exploring the complexities of being caught between putting food on the table and protecting the land that feeds you.
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For those who are complaining about the mines, what other industry is there up there to provide any work so that people can live? Saskatchewan has the best uranium on the planet be proud of your product not ashamed of it. There needs to be more support for natives to leave the Rez, keeping people trapped in a house they dont own in a place where there is no work, no way to provide for a family other than dependence on handouts which clearly only enables not help. Perhaps more Rezs need to make their own industry kinda like huderites, some colonies make metal siding and roofing, some grow turkeys, others canola, something to keep a community together where everyone puts in and reaps the rewards of the group.
Inform people to test their health mineral supplements for radiation levels FIRST!! Potassium chloride will saturate a Geiger counter in less than 30 secs. Naturally occurring has several legal meanings. TELL PEOPLE that their table salt is mined from feldspar mines and iodine is radioactive TELL PEOPLE what background radiation really is and how cesium 133 at ground level was needed to sync the atomic clock with GPS and WiFi communication. Don't just tell them to adapt or die.
And they are mining the fuel that can save the planet from global warming
Unfortunately they can anymore because the mining has contaminated their ground water and soon the animals around. They have destroyed the land and the future use of it
I think redistribution of wealth might be the bigger issue here, the colonialist vibes the exploitation of ressources can send is pretty obvious.
@@vodkaboy without those resources humans dont survive.
Mining has kept my family fed and many others in northern Saskatchewan.
An honest depiction of how it is for us living under the influence of these uranium mining companies. It is complex. There are those who are beholding to the mines for jobs and there are those who honestly know that there are and will be long term consequences from those jobs. But those jobs are not a secure future where our children and grandchildren will thrive. Like the Elder miner stated there will nothing left but a collapsing hole, a radioactive hole. The number for the Whistle Blowers Hotline is: 306-288-2079.
That’s my grandpa
You can also be an online Proline odds trader - 😮. There is sometimes plutonium near uranium.
Well made doc. So, as the story goes...jobs seemed to be the only pro for the mine. Then, workers lose jobs in the end and the drinking water is now contaminated. The couple who started the school were on to something. Education, training, awareness and a new form of livelihood that does not put the health of the land, animals, plants & community at risk is the way forward.
Burning coal is much worse for the environment - nuclear is the future
LORD GOD
Be with you
JESUS help
english river is not remote/100 miles from meadow lake
Uses electric energy complains the entire time
Be careful what you get good at, especially if it pays well. It might not be good for you.
Y give jobs to only 1/2 of the people ?
yeah you be happy now, after you gone what's left for the future. Depend 100 percent on the mines. Shame, SHame, SHAme, SHAMe, SHAME.
They are mining the fuel that can save our planet so respect, Respect, REspect, RESpect, RESPect, RESPEct, RESPECt, RESPECT
@@sovietpotatoes2353 your work shouldn't involve destroying the planet
@@peaceandfreedom2011and it dont
nuclear energy is crucial if we want to stop CO2 emissions
You either work, or you don't want to work.
your work shouldn't involve destroying the planet
I think nowadays people are realizing that your life shouldn't be based on your productivity as thats a capitalist mindset but instead ask yourself the question, what do you value in this life? and how can you make the world better before you left it? for some people they value freedom and friendships, and the way to make the world better is to not be a burden on others ie not producing but also not living off of others products. some people value building things and find fulfillment in that and so they "build" things to make the world better. and so on and so forth. if your main value in life is to work a job and you will die working a job, thats what you prioritize and thats fine! but those people who do not live by capitalist rules do not agree
Please
learn a lesson from the Navajo
😬😬😬
Was there a point to this 'documentary'?
Life is a struggle regardless of what you do. You either work or you don't.they both have their consequences. I take my hat off to those miners. Well done.
If it needs to be explained to you, you probably wouldn’t understand 😔
@@waynesulatyski2430 your work shouldn't involve destroying the planet
@@peaceandfreedom2011Does the internet and your ability to comment here run on free energy? If so show us how.