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25 October 2007

Mohawk Nation News: Sharbot Lake, the introduction

“MANHATTAN PROJECT” AT SHARBOT LAKEMNN.
July 9, 2007.


It’s becoming more and more apparent that we are being used as “guinea pigs” for research and experimentation by government funded mad scientists from around the world. Remember “agent orange”, “LSD”, ammunition testing at Sarcee and Ipperwash? You’d think people would know better by now and be decent. No way, Jose! It’s vicious disgusting and as slimy as a crude oil slick floating on a lake full of dead fish. Canada thinks we are expendable. They carry out psychological and physical testing of weaponry on our lands. They sit back and stare at us through binoculars and microcopes to see how we are going to react.

On Sunday July 8th 2007 at 3:00 pm. The Algonquins of Sharbot and Ardoc Lakes protested the rape and violation of their land by blocking Highway 7, which is 42 miles north of Kingston Ontario. They want to stop “Frontenac Ventures Corporation”, Mining Resource Engineering Limited MREL, Natural Resources Canada and Indian Affairs from digging for uranium at a former mine site near Ardoc north of Sharbot Lake Ontario. All of this is on unsurrendered Indigenous land. This whole venture is starting to smell more and more like sulfur and other explosives as well as uranium mining.

The Algonquins have been warned if they try to stop the mining they will be arrested and sued by Frontenac Ventures. They’ve heard that an injunction is going to be served on them on Tuesday, July 10th. Since when have Canadian courts given the “trespassers” injunctions against the land “owners”? Since the 18th Century when it comes to our land.

Algonquin Chief Doreen Davis says the companies have already destroyed their trap lines, beaver dams and beaver ponds. They set up a gate across the only entrance to the land refusing to allow the mining company to enter. They want a moratorium on mining in the whole Ottawa Valley.

The mining company is planning to drain Crotch Lake to get at the uranium easier. This concerns everyone. The radioactivity can leech into the waterways and wells for thousands of square miles around. There’s dust in the air too. They want to scare people into moving away. There’ve been a lot of unexplained arson and barn burnings in eastern Ontario. Is this why?

On Monday, July 2nd the Algonquins sent three runners from their encampment with a wampum to a nearby Indigenous community asking for help. They briefly explained the situation. The message was received by the War Chief. A meeting was called.

On Tuesday July 3rd the Algonquins were expecting an attack from the mining company, the workers or the OPP. They returned home to protect their people.

The traditional people gathered in the sister community. The war chief told the people, “They’re going to mine uranium up there and it’s going to affect all of us whose waters will be "contaminated”. They decided to check it out.

The Men decided, “If drills are appearing and uranium mining is starting, we’re ‘fucked’. Our water will be dead. This mine will poison us too”.

On July 3rd Tuesday morning they went to Sharbot Lake to find out what was going on. They saw that the Algonquins needed to get ready for whatever might happen. The Canadian Government wasn’t about to come in and shut down the uranium mine just because the Indigenous did'nt want it. In fact they probably gave out the permits. The Algonquins told the visitors that “the OPP are here for our protection!” The chief is an OPP officer. The liaison committee is made up of OPP officers. The visitors became even more alarmed about their safety.

OPP Cruisers were at both ends of the road and passing by every 5 minutes. Some cruisers had video cameras.

The visitors advised the Algonquin they needed to conduct the old way of forming a friendship by an exchange of words and a feast, which they did. The war chief of the “Algonquins of Ardoc and Sharbot Lake First Nations and Allies” is a very old man. They had a pipe ceremony and decided to work together.

The visitors cautioned, “If you believe you are going to be attacked, you need medical supplies, escape routes and more people around”. Shortly after that the cops surrounded the visitor’s van. 5 officers were within 9 feet of them, who checked out the license plate.

The visitors talked about the perimeters of the area and then went back to their van. Some of the visitors decided to go for a walk to look around. It was hills and swamps with very few roads. They were trying to get a feel for where the Algonquins were at.

They came back out of the bush. Then they decided to look further into the woods to see what kind of threats were there. The old war chief wanted to meet with them at a trailer. He presented a wampum to indicate that the visitors were now involved. The visitors’ war chief said he was sent there to assess the situation and provide support if necessary. They would take direction from the old war chief and walk behind him solely as support and not to take over in any way.

The visitors found out that the Algonquins wanted the visitors to wear camouflage and to keep the OPP back. The Algonquin seem to have felt intimidated by the OPP. They were blocking two gates on the road. They agreed to keep everything peaceful without militancy at any time.

They went back into the bush and investigated the back road looking for a rear exit. The map showed no exits. The Algonquins said there was none. The colonial authorities would not let them go into that area of 50,000 acres of Algonquin land being used for whatever. The first part of the road was clean. It was groomed without culverts designed for carrying heavy weight vehicles. It was recently filled by super dump trucks with heavy rock and heavy gravel on top.

It was five or six kilometers of extremely dense forest. It was almost impossible to see 15 feet ahead or off the road. On a smaller road they came to a gate that was open and a sign that read, “Caution - exploding and blasting”. About five minutes away was a second gate with lots of signs indicating “Do not enter”, “Blasting”, etc.

They came to a small white building on the right side with a chain link fence 9 feet high, with a lock on the gate. Inside was a concrete building that looked like a large pill box which was locked. In old paint that was flaking off said the word, “Hazard”. They walked in a little and found a concrete metal box about 3 feet by 4 feet with the word “Warning” on it. There was no lock on it. They opened it and found it empty.

The camp was four swamps in from the main gate. The visitors said, “What the hell is this? We were looking for equipment to use to maintain the safety of the people and look what we find!”

They went further in. They came across another building on the left with a giant 500 gallon diesel tank. To the left were the signs “Warning Blasting”, “Do not enter” and “Personnel only”.

They went off the main road to the right into the compound.

At the top of the hill there was a cement pad with big stack of sandbags. The road came to a ‘T’. To the right was a building. To the left the road continued into the thick forest where they couldn’t see anything.

They investigated the building through the windows. They saw big heavy machinery, lathes, steel presses and glass fixtures all fit with protection from explosive dust. Electrical power plug outlets were set up to be fireproof. The building had two sections sealed off from each other. There was a glass wall overlooking the “weapons lab”. There was a table with unusual equipment for “special jobs”. It was full of expensive equipment. There were papers and notes on the desk outside the room. There were safety goggles, an x-ray machine and a radiation detection machine.

On top of one of the buildings was a periscope with a revolving camera on it.

There were “designer” explosive chemicals with a heavy smell of sulphur and ammonia. Some of the explosives authorized for "manufacture and storage" by Natural Resources Canada on an Indigenous territory unknown to the inhabitants are: TNT, Cyclotrimethylenetrinitramine, cyclotetramethylenetranitramine; Hexolite, Octolite, Pentaerythrite Tetranitrate, Pentolite, Tritonal and Ammonium nitrate.

There was one locked door. Through the window they could see a thick wall with a room. On the left was a locked door. They went out through a side door. Another door was opened up which looked like a bathroom with a heavy chemical smell. Looking in they saw all kinds of papers, beakers, measuring cups, an opened wooden box containing a radiation machine and two other machines. There were stickers with the words “Radiation Area“ on it.

The visitors decided to continue looking for an access road in case they got flanked from behind. The small road looped around. They came across a giant hole in the ground, 25 feet by 30 feet by 8 ft deep to the right of the building.

The equipment on the site was all brand new. Behind the lab was another diesel tank. There was a water system with a hot water tank. There were other concrete pads and other roads around the site.

They came across a Cadillac and mini van blown up with the doors out and the roof peeled up. The paint had not burned.

Further down the road was a 20 feet high concrete bunker built between two hills. Three walls were covered by sand. The door could be opened. Everything around was dead, even the grass. The ground was covered by broken debris, paint, glass, metal and parts of things. On top of the concrete bunker were concrete blocks, glass and wood targets. It looked like the end of the world. The observers who reported what they saw were shivering.

Between the blown up cars and the concrete building were strange metal stands. Laying beside them was a live round. It was a bullet about 3 feet long, 6 inches in circumference. There were about two or three more brass casings lying beside them along with 8 or 9 war heads for the bullets weighing about 5 pounds each.

They walked over to the other end of the area and saw the same colored dirt in the hole which had recently been spread on the ground. It looked like something was being burnt. All the trees around were burnt. At the edge of the burnt pile there was a shipping container. The center had been exploded out and the doors were all bent. Some sort of dark liquid that smelled like diesel fuel and a strange whitish gray gel laid on the ground around it.

This looked like the edge of a dump. Some dirt was being backfilled over the piles of targets. There were 12 feet by 12 feet square walls with metal legs about 1.5 feet thick. These had 4 feet bullet holes in the center. There was alot of debris and pieces of cars laying at the base of the trees.

Further in they came to another clearing that went back into the forest for 300 feet from the road. There was a gray car there with a license plate. It had a strange device in the back seat. There were six shipping container with turbines on top all painted military green. “Explosives” was painted
on the sides of the containers.

The gravel on the road into this area was fresh with solid blocks. The markings on the containers showed they had passed from the U.S. through Canada Customs. The marking labels showed they were shipped from “Lebanon”.

Another blown up container was surrounded by the same dark gungy liquid on the ground. Gray barrels that were twisted, torn and ripped up were littered about. They had no burn marks. The insides were oily. It looked like they had been shot, a big hole was created and the containers had ballooned out. The hole was big enough to stand two people inside.

The hunting cabin behind the area had nothing in it except hunting maps. The gravel road ended and came to a path. It got too rough. They decided to turn back. They then found fresh 4 x 4 ATV tracks. We had been told there was no access except through the front gate where there were no 4 wheelers anywhere. The tracks showed that the 4 wheeler marks had made a circle in front of every building and all the offshoots.

The visitors thought they were stopping a mine and that no drilling had been done yet. It turned out to be somebody blasting for over 20 years and escalating it.

The government has told the Algonquins they don’t know if there is any uranium in there. According to the geothermal maps of Canada, it is a “hot spot” and has the biggest uranium mine in Canada.

The visitors tried to make some calls unsuccessfully. They went back to the front gate and stood around with everyone. They greeted people in cars. Then the Canadian government agents showed up in a fleet of four or five white Chevy trucks. They had a meeting with the OPP, who were part of the liaison group. They were told about the visitors. They went into the woods for 5 hours. Randy Coda, the chief and an OPP officer, lead them in. He did not take them to the munitions site.

In an abandoned building near the front gate where the people were protesting a geiger counter went off. It was supposed to be an abandoned gypsum or some kind of rock factory owned by Peter Jorgensen. He said he signed it over to George White who owns Frontenac Ventures Corporation. Frontenac has mining and explosive contracts from the federal government, Indian Affairs, Environment and Ministry of Natural Resources. Frontenac wants to sue the Algonquins for trying to stop the uranium mining.

When the Algonquins asked if tailings were being dumped here, the government said, “No”, they would not do that. They told them they were concerned about people staying in the area and suggested they move out.

Their suspicion is that nuclear power is being expanded or sold outside of Canada. The government stated they don’t know why the radiation levels are so high. They’ve been testing nuclear weapons up there, that’s why! They can’t afford to have people there because they’re going to get sick. Is Canada getting “weaponed up” because they think a world war is about to erupt?

Another problem is this is part of Six Nations territory. The Algonquins are aware of it. The watershed from the area goes in both directions. The government purports that this is not their land. They should ask us about that.

The company showed a video recently to the Algonquins on how the water bombs are made. The pressure is so high that it does not ignite. That was the bomb sitting on a car that the visitors saw. A robot would put a water bomb underneath the car and set it off so the car won’t explode into a fire ball. What is the purpose of inventing this kind of technology? It is obviously meant to kill people. This is violation of international law which requires all differences to be settled by open honest peaceful means. No government has a legitimate need for car bombs.

These secret bomb making and uranium projects are killing us off by contaminating our food, animals, fish and environment. They said they were practicing to use water bombs which can’t burn rocks. The visitors saw scorched trees and rocks. Their argument is they are helping Canada to fight the terrorists in Afghanistan. Canada hired this company to build the weapons for them.

MREL for 30 years has been doing contract work for industries like blasting companies who do roadwork, mining, etc. [For more information contact Bill Bauer, 1555 Sydenham Road, Kingston, ON K7L 4V4, Phone 613-545-0466 (111); Cell 613-530-0777; bbauer@mrel.com].

MREL brags that it is a leading manufacturer of IED disrupters to the global EOD community. [www.aquaram.com]. They work with federal agencies in Canada and US to create successful deployments in "North America" and "Afghanistan". What do they mean by that? MREL also works for
"Defense Research" of the Department of National Defense, which is testing ways to deal with incendiary devices as used by "terrorists". They also explode unused ordinances for DND[http://www.mrel.com/MREL].

Defence Research does radiation testing in "remote locations" like Sharbot and Ardoc Lakes. It might be remote for them, but it is right on our door step.

The visitors videotaped everything.

Defense Research Canada operates 7 centres across Canada. [Ottawa; Centre for Security Science with Public Safety & Emergency Preparedness Canada - that's Stockwell Day; and the Centre for Operational Research & Analysis CORA].

CORA is a "psy ops" component. This looks like mind control studies: analytical methods; critical reasoning; decision-making methods; group system/brainstorming; interdisciplinary teamwork; igorithms; modeling and simulation; multi-criteria decision analysis; optimization; qualitative & quantitative concepts; risk analysis; and sociological and psychological analysis.

This "ology" and "ism" stuff sounds like a lot of B.S. but get huge government contracts for political hacks. There's always lots of money for nonsense but none for maintaining medicare, education or infrastructures for ordinary honest citizens like roads and bridges.

We Indigenous have been used by the military for a long time. It looks like there is a ‘Mengele' in DND doing experiments on us and watching how we react to chemical and psychological warfare.

Indian Affairs makes sure that we are seen as a people who have no rights. They say we can’t sue on our own behalf because we are their “wards”. Could they be farming us out as human guinea pigs to the U.S. or other governments that want to do experiments on human beings? They did this with our residential school kids to German doctors in the 1930s. They don’t seem to have any fears of being sued. Any claims would have to go through a long process of negotiations. Indian Affairs is very good at tying it all up for generations.

Does this scare you? Is this the way people expect the Canadian government to be spending tax dollars? Has Canada been completely infiltrated and taken over by a bunch of crazy “yahoos”! Does it look like some questions surely need to be asked?

[For more information contact: Explosives Regulatory Division, Natural Resources Canada, 1431 Merivale Road, Ottawa email inspector@nrcan.gc.ca Phone 613-948-5200].

Kahentinetha Horn
MNN Mohawk Nation News

Mohawk Nation News: on Frontenac Ventures, Canada

SPECIAL MNN REPORT: IS CANADA THE WORLD’S “BUTT HOLE”FOR TESTING BOMBS AND WMDs??
Sombody’s making deals with the devil!
July 26, 2007


“Ye Shall Know them by the Company they Keep”
[from somewhere in the Bible?]


Ardoch Algonquin First Nation and Sharbot Obaadjiwan First Nation will be conducting a protest and information toll on Highway 7 in Perth on July 28th from 3pm-6pm. They want to stop uranium exploration and mining in North Frontenac County, 42 miles north of Kingson Ontario Canada. [For more information contact Chief Paula Sherman omanikwe@bell.blackberry.net 613-329-3706, Bob Lovelace at 613-374-5598, Chief Randy Cota 613-541-8205, Lynn Daniluk at 613-268-2746 and Ormond Lee at 613-267-7584]

In a Memorandum of Understanding “Mining Resources Engineering Limited” MREL is continuing its weapons making and bomb exploding activities on Algonquin lands. We investigated and found a frightening profile on MREL.

MREL Encampment in the Bush


Their weapons testing is unacceptable! On July 13, 2007, some Indigenous people stumbled on their “secret” lab and explosive testing encampment in the bush on Sharbot Lake. They probably need to clean up some evidence of their questionable activities? We are now in the know! They are making weapons of genocide to be used on our people elsewhere in the world and, who knows, maybe even on us.

MREL tries to stay anonymous. Bill Bauer, the head, keeps company with some big guys in the BIG LEAGUE. Yes, the Department of National Defense Canada [DND] and the U.S. Department of Defense [DOD] are some of MREL’s biggest customers. They work secretly for the sake of “national security”, calling it “R&D” [Research & Development]. We know they don’t care about ‘our’ security. Why do we get the feeling that there’s a lot of “insanity” going on here? [Ask Bill Bauer of MREL at 613-545-0466 (111)Cell 613-530-0777. MREL hides out in Kingston].

Why should these secret companies and agencies know more about our security than us? We are the original owners of the land, and there are non-native settlers who live on our land.

Mysterious MREL has the high tech equipment to measure all forms of radiation. They provide their services to test weapons they call “explosives” at their unique “state of the art” at a remote facility in the wilderness of Algonquin territory.

For years MREL has been making a lot of noise in the Algonquin countryside. Their explosions can be heard and felt for miles around. Farmers have moved away because the noise causes their cows and goats to miscarry. [Are these lands going to become uninhabitable for hundreds of years?]

Unless one is close to the explosions, they aren't likely to notice any smoke or odor. MREL uses high tech equipment to monitor the winds and other elements. Explosions are set off when the wind can blow the smoke away from human settlement into the bush, where it supposedly dissipates without causing any harm. Not true.

No Uranium Mining!


This summer up to 200 Algonquins and Allies are encamped at the Robertsville mine site, blocking road access to MREL's 400 acre “facility” to stop a uranium mine that Frontenac Venture wants to open up. It’s just beyond MREL's "property".

Babies and small children are in the mine site camp where “tremolite”, a radioactive form of asbestos was once processed. The Algonquins have not been consulted, but they know the unseen dangers of radiation at the mine site. They know about the toxic chemicals and radiation and nuclear waste MREL left behind. Where is unbiased person with the diagnostic equipment to monitor the pollution?

The Algonquins wait and wonder what Canada, Frontenac Ventures, OPP, and so on will do next. They have a nerve to sue us for $77 million for trespassing and destroying our land? They should be sued for criminal intent to harm us.

Are MREL/DND/DRDC [Defense Research sector of DND] letting the encamped Algonquins and allies simmer in radioactivity to see what will become of them? Both Indigenous people and soldiers (not generals and military industry CEO's) have been subjected to toxic biological and chemical substances in experiments. They are top secret until they get exposed by the victims or their families. Their stories never get public attention until the next crisis hits another community. Is it our turn now?

CADSI, the “Merchants of Death”


CADSI, Canadian Association of Defense & Security Industry” has a website with a list of suppliers to the military. MREL is on this list. So is “Blaney McMurtry” which is touted as “legal experts” for the defense industry.

Toronto-based Blaney McMurtry also represents the Algonquins of Ontario in their “sovereignty” and “land claims” negotiations with the Canadian and Ontario governments and their agents, the Ontario Provincial Police OPP, etc. They are at “cross purposes”. It’s a conflict of interest! They seem to have lost all perspective, big time! AAFNA presently has a lawyer, Chris Reid, from Toronto.

To add to the complications, some of the encamped Algonquins are OPP officers! What’s their role? Are they breaking Canadian law as trespassers or are they there to enforce the colonial law as OPP?

Some call the CADSI a list of the "Canadian Merchants of Death". They are involved in war and the current escalating militarization of the globe.

Minister of Defense, Gordon O’Connor


On the CADSI list is “Hill & Knowlton”, a well known lobby firm for the Canadian military industry. Gordon O'Connor, Member of Parliament for Carleton-Mississippi Mills and the present Minister of Defense, is a former employee of Hill & Knowlton. [Oh! Oh! Internectine incest here!]

When asked about the possible conflict of interest, Gord glibly said, "Just watch me!" What does Gord know about MREL's contracts with the DND which he oversees? He seems unconcerned about the people in his own riding who are being affected by MREL"s toxic airborne wastes and the Frontenac Ventures uranium mine if it is developed. Gord might have refurbished the old “Diefenbunker” and brought it up to snuff! [With an underground passage to it!]

DND “Top Secret” work at Sharbot Lake


How can we learn how MREL's work is affecting us when it is under “secret” contract to DND? According to international law we have human rights to clean air, water, soil and food.

We are told MREL is doing research on “anti-terrorism”, testing ways to stop car bombs (IED's). If anyone is testing methods to stop a car bomb, they have to blow up a car bomb, including the RDD radiological dispersal device and the car! Many cars, vans and shipping containers are being blown up. [All this just to conquer or kill poor people who are defending themselves!!]

Chemicals will spill on the ground. There will be huge holes in the ground. Toxic smoke will drift from the burning car and explosives. MREL has robots and radiation equipment to do all this at their “secret location” way in the bush. They call it an ideal "remote location" near Sharbot Lake.

MREL’s “FIXOR”


On the CADSI website MREL describes itself in glowing terms. “Our flagship product is FIXOR which will fix most anything. It contains two plastic bottles, one with FIXOR flammable liquid and the other with FIXOR powder. The liquid is poured into the other bottle, shaken and the bomb is formed. If it isn’t thrown at somebody or something, after a time FIXOR becomes non-explosive and easily transportable. FIXOR is for those who need “all purpose” bombs. [Remember, we were the first victims of the “Gatling guns” when the U.S. Army when it mounted it on a train bed and mowed us down!]

FIXOR formed the core of the AquaRam line of tactical disrupters for any EOD threat. It uses an explosive driven water that can take out a target with little collateral damage. The “mode d’imploi” for use is on each container in both official languages!

Native and settler residents were outraged. We found out about this when Frontenac Ventures got a permit to mine uranium right near the MREL explosion facilities. How handy for MREL! They’ll have a chance to use their expensive equipment.

MREL calls their projects "Humanitarian Demining" (HD)! [This is a new one! They have some “word smiths” on their payroll!] It’s one of Canada's image building campaigns launched by Lloyd Axworthy. They even Boast about a "green" explosive, a totally biodegradable bomb! [Maybe it’s a fart! Those guys appear like they could do big ones!]

Conclusion


It is like sitting in a living room watching television. Something is going on in a secret room in another part of the house. We hear strange noises and goings on. We don’t know what they are doing. We are getting some hints. Finally we see someone and ask, “What’s going on?”

They answer, “Nothing. Just trust us. We know what we are doing. Enjoy yourself while we do all these things to you”. Meanwhile a greenish deadly cloud comes floating out of the room. It starts to eat up the house, the environment and the people. It gets into the atmosphere, the water and everybody starts to get sick.

Finally, someone close to us gets violently sick and we take them to the hospital. The doctors don’t know what is causing the convulsions and the sickness. The people from the secret room say, “We can’t tell you. It’s a secret”.

Why didn’t we ask what these mad scientists were doing behind closed doors? We can’t trust them. What if this kind of sickness goes everywhere, into nearby cities? Everyone will be affected, even the mad scientists.

Nobody wants to test bombs on their own land except Canada. Canada has no shame and no respect for itself. No shame. It’s opened up our land for testing lethal weapons that will destroy us and our land. Are Indigenous people and the Canadian public being experimented upon?

Kahentinetha Horn
MNN Mohawk Nation News


Note: On the following pages of this report is information on MREL and other companies and agencies that are part of a powerful group of military related organizations around the world. Included are the names, companies and contact information. They are involved in the field of Chemical, Biological, Radiological, Nuclear, Explosives Research and Technology Initiatives.

Department of National Defense Canada


1. DND http://www.forces.gc.ca; Gordon O'Connor, Minister of Defense and Conservative MP, House of Commons Ottawa, Ontario K1A 0A6, Telephone: (613) 992-1119 Fax: (613) 992-1043 EMail: OConnor.G@parl.gc.ca, Web Site: http://www.gordonoconnor.ca/;

Gord’s constituency Office is at 240 Michael Cowpland Drive Kanata, Ontario K2M 1P6, Telephone: (613) 592-3469 Fax: (613) 592-4756]

2. Defense Research & Development Canada DRDC is in Ottawa, 3701 Carling Avenue, Ottawa, Ontario, K1A 0Z4 Tel: (613) 991-4153 Fax: (613) 998-2675 Email: info-ottawa@drdc-rddc.gc.ca,
Email: media-ottawa@drdc-rddc.gc.cahttp://www.drdc.gc.ca/home_e.asp


CRTI


3.“Chemical, Biological, Radiological, Nuclear, Explosives Research and Technology Initiative”, which coordinates and funds projects with 21 different agencies and departments listed at http://www.crti.drdc-rddc.gc.ca/en/partners/default.asp.

CRTI has a mandate “to fund projects in science and technology (S&T) that will strengthen Canada's preparedness for, prevention of, and response to potential CBRNE threats to public safety and security." http://www.crti.drdc-rddc.gc.ca/en/about_us/default.asp [Website suddenly went down]

4. Prominent members of CRTI are the “Canadian Nuclear Safety Commission”, (CSIS) “Canadian Security Intelligence Service”, the mysterious Canadian spy agency CSE “Communication Security Establishment”, DRDC “Defence Research and Development Canada”, “Department of Fisheries and Oceans Canada”, “Environment Canada”, “Health Canada”, “Natural Resources Canada”, “Public Health Agency of Canada PHAC, “Public Safety Canada” and the “Royal Canadian Mounted Police” [another farce!].

5. CRTI recently hosted a symposium looking for more industry business. They work for both private and governmental military agencies. They study and test chemical, biological, radiological, nuclear and explosives possibilities. Some have intriguing but chilling project names with no details.

6. CRTI 03-0021TD: “Assay Development and Production Team for the Identification of Bioterrorism Agents: Detection and Identification of Bacillus Anthracis Protective Antigen and Biological Threat Agents by Electrochemiluminescence” [We are getting a whole bunch of b.s. here].

7. CRTI 03-0021TD: “Assay Development and Production Team for the Identification of Bioterrorism Agents: Hybridoma Development Capacity”, at DRDC Suffield 57;

8. Development of “Multiple Immunoassays Using a Single Antibody against Bacillus anthracis Protective Antigen”. This project is lead by Public Health Agency of Canada – National Microbiology Laboratory. Their federal partners are DRDC Suffield and the Canadian Food Inspection Agency. [Who knows what we are being hit with anymore? “Genetically modified” doesn’t have to be put on the list of ingredients in the food we eat.]

9. CRTI 0029RD: “Protecting the First Responder Against CB Threats”. This project is lead by Royal Military College of Canada. Its federal partners are the Royal Canadian Mounted Police, Health Canada, Department of National Defense. Directors are from Nuclear Biological Chemical Defense and Defense Research and Development Canada. Their industry partner is 3M Canada. [Is “Scotch Tape” a front for what they really do?]

10. CRTI 05-0043RD: “Economic Impact of Radiological Terrorist Events” is headed by DRDC Ottawa. Their federal partners are Canadian Nuclear Safety Commission, Canadian Security Intelligence Service and Atomic Energy of Canada Limited. Their industry partners are Battelle Memorial Institute and Pacific Northwest National Laboratories.

11. Scientists working on CRTI projects include:
Ruth Wilkins, Consumer and Clinical Radiation Protection Bureau, Health Canada, 775 Brookfield Road, Ottawa, Ontario, K1A 1C1, (613) 941-7263, Ruth_Wilkins@hc-sc.gc.ca

Sami Qutob, Consumer and Clinical Radiation Protection Bureau, Health Canada, 775 Brookfield Road, Ottawa, Ontario, K1A 1C1, (613) 957-2731, Sami_Qutob@hc-sc.gc.ca

Dale Buchanan, Chalk River Laboratories, Atomic Energy of Canada Limited, Chalk River, Ontario, K0J 1J0, (613) 584-8811 ext. 6122, buchanand@aecl.ca

Yvonne Devantier, Chalk River Laboratories, Atomic Energy of Canada Limited, (613) 584-8811, devantiery@aecl.ca

Roger Hugron, Director of Nuclear Studies and Analysis, Director General of Nuclear Safety, Department of National Defense, Major-General George R. Pearkes Building, 101 Colonel By Drive, Ottawa, Ontario, K1A 0K2, (613) 995-9506, HUGRON.JJMR@forces.gc.ca

Murray Smith, Radiation Protection Bureau, Health Canada,2720 Riverside Drive, Ottawa, Ontario, K1A 0K9, (613) 941-3633, murray_smith@hc-sc.gc.ca

Eva Gudgin Dickson, Department of Chemistry and
Chemical Engineering, Royal Military College of
Canada, P.O. Box 17000, Station Forces, Kingston,
Ontario, K7K 7B4, (613) 541-6000 ext. 6217, dickson-e@rmc.ca

Paul Bodurtha, Department of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Royal Military College of Canada, (613) 541-6000 ext. 6577, paul.bodurtha@rmc.ca

Brian Harrison, Sorbecon Research Inc., 193 Knudson Drive, Kanata, Ontario, K2K 2C2, (613) 591-3783, brianh@sorbecon.com

Tom Beardall, Deputy Project Manager, Phoenix OHC, Inc., 837 Princess Street, Suite 500, Kingston, Ontario, K7L 1G8, (613) 544-4046, tb@phoenix-ohc.ca

Ugis Bickis, Standards Team Leader, Phoenix OHC, Inc., 837 Princess St., Suite 500, Kingston, Ontario
Tom Cousins, DRDC Ottawa, 3701 Carling Avenue, Ottawa, Ontario, K1A 0Z4, (613) 998-2312, tom.cousins@drdc-rddc.gc.ca

Barbara Reichmuth, Battelle National Security Division, Pacific Northwest National Laboratories, P.O. Box 999, Richland, Washington, U.S. 99352, (509) 375-2128, barbara.reichmuth@pnl.gov

Xiaojiang Dai, Chemical and Biological Defence Section, DRDC Suffield, P.O. Box 4000, Station Main, Medicine Hat, Alberta,T1A 8K6, (403) 520-5155, xiaojiang.dai@drdc-rddc.gc.ca

Sarah Hayward, Chemical and Biological Defence Section, DRDC Suffield, Medicine Hat, Alberta, (403) 544-4395, sarah.hayward@drdc-rddc.gc.ca

Elaine Fulton, Chemical and Biological Defence Section, DRDC Suffield, Medicine Hat, Alberta, T1A 8K6, (403) 544-4630, elaine.fulton@drdc-rddc.gc.ca

All this to kill off poor people! Do these characters get a “high” when they blow up something or somebody? If that’s their problem, they should go to Disneyland four times a years to work it off.

ADAPT


12. ADAPT Assay Development and Production Team: “National Centre for Foreign Animal Disease”. ADAPT is a group of scientists who develop immunodiagnostic reagents and assays, for human, animal, and zoonotic biothreat agents that can be validated, produced, and distributed to first responders should a biothreat event occur. ADAPT will transition the immunoreagents to a sensitive and rapid immunoassay system using an electrochemiluminescence (ECL) platform. [They make it sound like a theatre production!] The M-SERIES M1MR analyzer is from BioVeris Corporation.

13. ADAPT compares antibodies developed by the Public Health Agency of Canada (PHAC) and DRDC Suffield to antibodies available from DRDC collaborators in the United States (US) and the United Kingdom (UK), for use in the M1M ECL assay. [CRTI 0027RD Biological Dosimetry and Markers of Nuclear and Radiological Exposures]. This project is headed by Health Canada. Its federal partners are DRDC Ottawa, Atomic Energy of Canada Limited and McMaster University

“CBRENworld”


14. “CBRNEworld: is an international magazine based in England. This “official media partner" is in bed with the industry. MREL gets stroked in the Summer 2007 issue available at their web site. MREL has emblazoned their web site with their big fat logos. Discovery Channel even got sucked into doing a show on MREL in their "Future Weapons" series. Sick! Sick! Sick! http://www.cbrneworld.com/
E-mail: david.levitt@cbrneworld.com Telephone: +44(0)208 744 0860 Mobile: +44(0)7769 554051 Fax: +44(0)208 7440860 E-mail: gwyn.winfield@cbrneworld.com Telephone: +44(0)7974 537016

CADSI Canadian Association
Of Defense & Security Industries


15. CADSI "represents over 500 member companies that like to bomb. They are the “essential contributors” to Canada’s national defense and security. They “generate billions of dollars to the Canadian economy every year". CADSI 2006 Board of Directors include people from important military industries like Lockheed Martin, General Dynamics, Thales Canada and Rheinmetall Canada Inc.

CADSI hosts events such as “CanSec” [sometimes called “CanSick”], a military trade show at the Ottawa Congress Centre every April where exhibitors can show off their new war toys.

CADSI’s address is 130 Slater Street, Suite 1250 Ottawa, ON K1P 6E2, Telephone: 613-235-5337 Fax: 613-235-0784, Email: cadsi@defenceandsecurity.ca

Their staff includes:
* Tim Page, President
* Catherine Lyons, CANSEC Booth Bookings
* Alex Scholten, Events Manager
* Martine Proulx, Membership Manager
* Andrea Walton, Manager, Operations &
Administration

MREL belongs to a number of international organizations including the TSWG and the IABTI.

TSWG “Technical Support Working Group”


16. TSWG is a “Technical Support Working Group” based in the U.S. Contact information is limited to http://www.tswg.gov/tswg/home/home.htm [The web site seems to be busy these days!]

IABTI “International Association
Of Bomb Technicians & Investigators”


17. IABTI is the “International Association of Bomb Technicians and Investigators” http://www.iabti.org
P.O. Box 160, Goldvein, VA 22720-0160 USA
Telephone: 540-752-4533 Fax: 540-752-2796
admin@iabti.org members@iabti.org. The International Director’s address is P.O. BOX 441, DOVETON, VICTORIA, AUSTRALIA, 3177 id@iabti.org

Director of Operations is at P.O. Box 160 Goldvein, VA 22720-0160 admin@iabti.org

The Chairman of Advisors can be emailed at advisors@iabti.org

The Chairman of Trustees can be reached at
trustees@iabti.org

IABTI technicians are qualified to handle explosive materials. [We should hope so!] Through IABTI they can share knowledge at their many trade shows and demonstrations all over the world.

"IABTI is the largest tradeshow in the world exclusively devoted to the “Bomb Technician” and “EOD specialist”. MREL will have the AquaRam™ Tactical Disrupters on display in Phoenix", Arizona from July 29th to August 3rd. [Bill Bauer of MREL can’t wait to get there and brag about his ‘you-know-what!]

“Persons of Interest”


18. There are a few others: MREL

MREL Group of Companies, 1555 Sydenham Rd. Kingston, Ontario K7L 4V4, Telephone: (613) 545-0466, Fax: (613) 542-8029, Email: info@mrel.com
bbauer@mrel.com, jwight@mrel.com Website URL: http://www.mrel.com

Frontenac Ventures Corp.


19. Frontenac Ventures Corp. has their own “Tricky Dickies” like Director William Radvak, founder and president of Resource BioMedical Corporation, is also on the Board of Directors of Frontenac Ventures Corp, [also known as “Frankenstein Adventures Corps] the company that wants to build a uranium mine on unceded Algonquin territory. He can be reached at his company, Resource BioMedical headquarters http://www.responsebio.com/index.asp
1-888-591-5577RAMP.

“Resource BioMedical” works with those immunoassay systems mentioned in the CRTI symposium document quoted above. It is not known if they are directly involved with a CRTI project. [But they’re cozying up real quick].

They also trade on TSX Ventures.

Biodefense


20. "Update: Biodefense product and industry news: The RAMP® System is the new gold standard in biological field detection. RAMP provides first responders, military personnel and public safety workers, and those responsible for facility security with rapid, on-site, reliable information”. [There you go! If you get killed, they’ll quickly claim your body for scientific study. If you get injured, you’re on your own!] They do tests for anthrax, ricin, bottox and pox." [Isn’t this used for getting rid of wrinkles and creating big artificial oversized blubbery lips?}

Response Medical Corp.


21. BioMedical just received some big bucks. http://www.responsebio.com. On July 24, 2007 Response Biomedical Corporation announced that they closed the financing announced July 9, 2007, raising $12 million. It was a “bought deal private placement whereby the Company issued 12,000,000 common shares at a price of $1.00 for each common share." [When is the U.S. going to get off its “war economy” and get back to a “people based” economy?]

Niawen,

Ontario tribe statement against Uranium exploration and mining


  1. Algonquin Alliance Statement Against Uranium Exploration and Mining

    July 24, 2007

    On June 28, 2007 leadership and members of Ardoch Algonquin First Nation and Shabot Obaadjiwan First Nation moved to secure the site of a proposed uranium mine in the traditional lands of the Ardoch Algonquin First Nation near Ardoch Ontario. Frontenac Ventures Corporation, under the ownership of George White had been notified by mail to vacate the premises prior to the 28th with his equipment and staff. On the 28th members of the two Algonquin communities moved in and secured the site to prevent the drilling of uranium core samples which were slated to begin the following week.Upon securing the site, the two communities established an alliance whose overall purpose was to prohibit access to the site and any proposed drilling within and around the site and all associated sites by Frontenac Ventures Corporation. The Algonquin alliance discovered through an initial search that multiple users had been granted access to the site and land surrounding the site by the MNR, Mining and Northern Development and private owners. At no time did any of these ministries or private owners contact or secure permission from Algonquin people to use the lands or resources in question. In fact, while Algonquin people in the area had heard rumours of a proposed uranium mine in Frontenac County, we were not aware of the plans to develop a mine on our traditional territory until Gloria Morrison, a private land owner in the region, attended a council meeting and asked for the Ardoch Algonquin council’s help in protecting her property. Gloria came to the meeting because 60 acres of her 100 acre holding had been staked by Frontenac Ventures under the Mining Act. She had exhausted all other alternatives at that point and hoped that Algonquin people could help her as she understood that the land she had purchased was in the historical territory of Algonquin people.

  2. As already mentioned the overall purpose of the Algonquin alliance is to prohibit access to the site and any proposed drilling within and around the site and all associated sites. This includes sites that are privately owned and leased to Frontenac Ventures Corporation as this usage is against the Original Teachings and Guiding Principles which provide the guidance necessary to live within Mino-Pimaadiziwin (which means to live the good life, in a balanced way that promotes the sustainability of the Natural World and all living entities). The alliance is using a four-pronged approach to dealing with uranium exploration and mining which includes education of the larger community on the dangers of uranium exploration and mining and direct action in various locations in Algonquin territory to bring local, national and international attention to the issue. The two Algonquin communities who make up this alliance are also concerned with their responsibility as Anishinaabe people to examine prior usage of the land and resources by all users who have been granted access by the province of Ontario. Part of that strategy is to develop sound mechanisms for restoring balance to the land and waterways that have been impacted by their activities on the land and also create protocols of interaction that can be used with future users so that the same mistakes do not occur again.The alliance also has to deal with the other users who were granted access to our territory through the province. One such user is MREL. MREL is a company that has moved heavily into the defence and security industry, and in particular the development of a range of vehicle disrupters which are used to neutralize improvised explosive devises and bomb laden vehicles, placed in anything from regular automobiles up to tractor trailer sized trucks. The units are robot deployed and designed to minimize collateral damage. The thrust of their work is humanitarian with an emphasis on saving lives, both by countering the threat of bombs in the civilian community, as well as to improve the defence capability of Canadian troops.As MREL’s current contract is designed to save lives, and not connected to the drilling of core samples or uranium mining, the alliance has made the decision to permit MREL to enter the site under a memorandum of understanding between MREL and Ardoch and Shabot Obaadjiwan First Nations. The memorandum of understanding will cover only the current project related to their research on vehicle disrupters. It will cover the nature of required clean-up from previous MREL work, set out the protocols for relating to the land in a way that promotes balanced relationships with the land and waterscapes, while also enabling MREL to complete the project in the designated timeframe. Any other usage of the site by MREL would have to be renegotiated. The MOU will also address the issue of securing the site while MREL is conducting their research. MREL has also come out openly against George While and Frontenac Ventures Corporation and has provided the alliance with numerous documents, maps, and correspondence that supports our position against uranium mining.The alliance is also concerned with a new tendency on the part of some individuals to treat this site as a tourist attraction. The articulation of our autonomy here is a serious issue for both Ardoch Algonquin First Nation and for Shabot Obaadjiwan First Nation. We have secured the area for the sole purpose of preventing the drilling of core samples which would lead to the development of a uranium mine on our traditional territory. Securing the area means literally keeping everyone out unless they have been invited to enter at the main gate where the encampment is located. This policy is necessary to secure the safety of everyone, inside and outside the gate. The entire parameter has been secured through the use of warriors to prevent access to Frontenac Venture Corporation and no one should enter the site as you could be seen as working for FVC. This encampment and occupation of the surrounding land and watersheds is part of an ongoing resistance on the part of these two First Nations to resist the attempts of Frontenac Ventures Corporation to drill core samples, it should respectfully not be treated as a tourist attraction.The Algonquin alliance and resistance force is being assisted by CCAMU, Mining Watch, and other environmental and citizenship groups who are opposed to uranium mining. Many of the individuals involved in the various groups have had their own property staked under the Mining Act by Frontenac Ventures Corporation. While Algonquin people are concentrating on direct actions that articulate our autonomy in the valley of the Kiji Sìbì (which is a necessary component in the overall efforts to prevent uranium exploration and mining on our traditional lands), our non-Aboriginal friends and neighbours have renewed ancient relationships with the Algonquin people and communities here and have taken up once again their side of the wampum belt that was neglected long ago by their ancestors. Their efforts to create and disperse important information on the Mining Act and impacts of uranium mining have gone a long way in gaining outside support for our struggle to stop Frontenac in their tracks. Our non-Aboriginal neighbours have also created a network of support for the Algonquin and other Aboriginal communities who remain on the site behind the gate. This network of concerned friends and neighbours have taken it upon themselves to make sure that the people who remain there have the food, supplies, and necessities needed to maintain the occupation until a positive resolution can be achieved. Both Algonquin communities, as well as the other Aboriginal people at the site greatly appreciate the dedication and sacrifices made by everyone who has supported and continues to support our efforts to stop the proposed uranium exploration and mining on Algonquin land and that of our neighbours.

    Direct Action
    The alliance has taken several direct actions in the past few weeks to draw attention to the issue including two protest marches down Highway 7 in Sharbot Lake. The next direct action will take place on July 28 in Perth. Those wishing to participate in the action should meet at the lot behind Wendys at 3pm. This particular action will take place at two spots on Highway 7. There will be pylons inserted into the middle of the road to slow it down to two lanes. We will be setting up information tolls at each end of Perth on Highway 7. Cars will be allowed to travel but at a much slower pace which will permit us to provide info on the issue and also ask for donations which are needed to sustain the resistance force at the site and to pay for legal fees. We will need volunteers to stand at each end of the highway with picket signs and eight people to work the information toll. We will maintain the information toll from 3pm-6pm. We will continue to plan such actions on Highway Seven moving next to Carleton Place and eastward……eventually reaching Ottawa if necessary.

    Legal Strategy

    The Algonquin alliance has secured the legal services of Chris Reid, who is an expert on Aboriginal rights and law. Chris is working from the legal standpoint that Algonquin people never surrendered our lands and thus our autonomy and jurisdiction remain intact in the areas in which Frontenac Ventures Corporation has staked and plans to drill core samples. The details of that strategy need to remain confidential, but we will keep you updated on the progress made.

    Response from Frontenac Ventures Corporation

    Frontenac Ventures Corporation has responded to our protest in a variety of ways, including issuing a statement in the Globe and Mail wherein Frontenac’s CEO George White suggested that perhaps companies in Canada should utilize paramilitary forces such as those used in Africa (if you have seen Blood Diamond you will get the idea) to protect mining interests from people such as ourselves, which he equated with terrorism. In a meeting held last week, White’s lawyer said several nasty things about our Mohawk allies and asked point blank if there were Mohawk warriors on the premises. White also promised swift legal action against us at that meeting and has followed through with that threat as we have been told that he has filed a 77 million dollar law suit against the two Algonquin communities here and their associated leaders. While a security force showed up at several points today trying to serve the notice, no one accepted it and they will now deliver it to our legal team which is being led by Chris Reid out of Toronto.

    Fundraising

    Given the length of time we will need to maintain the occupation of our lands and the nature of the legal issues, we will need to implement and maintain various fundraising initiatives and activities over the next few months. Frank Morrison, who alerted us to the activities of Frontenac Ventures Corporation, is in the process of organizing a major benefit concert to take place in Carleton Place which will help in that regard, as will the one that is scheduled for Weds in Sharbot Lake. If you are not able to come and stand with us on the ground here please get involved in organizing fundraising activities to support our efforts here and what will be undoubtedly a lengthy and costly legal battle. All funds raised can be dropped off at the gate or mailed to 1045 Canoe Lane Ardoch, ON. Please specify that mailed funds go to fight uranium mining and the efforts of the Algonquin people occupying the site. If you are not able to get involved in the organization of fundraising activities, please consider dropping off or sending in your donation to support this important issue. Uranium exploration and mining will destroy our traditional territory and make it impossible to live off the land or to maintain our responsibilities to the land and waterways. We are doing this for the benefit of your children and grandchildren, so that they will have a future as Algonquin people.

    CHI-MIIGWECH!

    The Algonquin Alliance of Ardoch Algonquin First Nation & Shabot Obaadjiwan First Nation