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Note from Beyond Nuclear: In the early part of this decade, the Mohawks of Quebec played a decisive role in blocking the proposed radioactive steam generator boat shipments from Bruce Nuclear Generating Station in Kincardine, Ontario, Canada -- via Lake Huron, Lake Saint Clair, Lake Erie, Lake Ontario, and connecting rivers; the St. Lawrence River; and the Atlantic Ocean -- to Sweden for "recycling" into the metal recycling stream. A broad U.S.-Canadian environmental coalition had resisted the scheme for many months, and the Mohawks of Quebec provided the coup de grace.
Similarly, in the late 1990s and early 2000s, the Mohawks of Quebec -- as well as Aniishinaabe of Ontario, such as Serpent River First Nation -- joined with a broad U.S.-Canadian environmental coalition to oppose weapons-grade plutonium fuel shipments from the U.S. and Russia to Chalk River Nuclear Lab, Ontario, for a "test burn" of MOX fuel (Mixed Oxide plutonium-uranium). Terry Lodge of Toledo, OH and Kary Love of Holland, MI served as lead legal counsel for the coalition. Drs. Gordon Edwards (Canadian Coalition for Nuclear Responsibility), Ed Lyman (then with Nuclear Control Institute, since with Union of Concerned Scientists), Francis Boyle (University of Illinois) and James David Ballard (University of California Santa Barbara) served as the coalition's expert witnesses. The lawsuit was named Hirt v. Richardson (for Alice Hirt of Don't Waste Michigan, and U.S. Energy Secretary Bill Richardson), and was heard by U.S. federal district judge Richard Enslen in Kalamazoo, Michigan.