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Gordon Edwards is President of the  Canadian Coalition for Nuclear Responsibility.

With regard to the planned Chalk River shipments of 23,000 litres of high level radioactive liquid waste containing 175 kilograms of highly enriched uranium:

There are two issues which are perhaps being confused.

The first is the question of proliferation through the possible diversion and/or storing of weapons-grade materials like HEU.

The second is the safety and environmental considerations in shipping 23,000 litres...

UXBRIDGE (ONT), CANADA - "Before We Can Know Where We Are Going We Must First Understand Where We Have Come From" is one of those sayings you hear alot. Personally, I have no idea who said it but the concept seems to pop up in a lot of cultures around the world. The 40 000 people who rallied in Washington DC last Sunday (Feb. 17th) to encourage President Obama to reject the Keystone XL pipeline have got me thinking about where the tar sands movement has "come from."

I think back to those cold and grey winter days in Berlin, Germany in 2010. At that time I was scribbling down ideas for the first International Stop the Tar Sands Day in whichever Berlin cafe peaked my curiosity that day. If someone walked into that cafe, sat down at my table, looked me in the face and told me in a little over a year (Jan, 20th, 2012...