The fact that former Prime Minister Jean Chrétien and others
move from serving in politics to serving private interests and back
again reveals that politics has degenerated to the point where rich
oligarchs control their enterprises, cartels and governments. They move
seamlessly back and forth taking decisions that affect the
people, economy and society. This exposes official politics and big
business as corrupt with their participants serving narrow private
interests in contempt of the people, economy, society and Mother Earth.
In an interview with Radio-Canada's Enquête,
Chrétien attempted to defend the project to bury nuclear waste
from foreign countries in Labrador. He said Canada as a "top seller of
uranium" has a responsibility to help clean up nuclear waste because it
makes money selling uranium used to produce nuclear energy and bombs.
The fact
that, for Chrétien and others of his ilk, dumping nuclear waste
in a hole in the ground is synonymous with "cleaning it up," shows
their arrogance and how self-serving and superfluous they are. Speaking
like that is no skin off their noses because presumably it is not their
families who will be living next to the dump sites.
According to Radio-Canada,
emails Chrétien drafted in 2019 and 2020 say: "We have some
responsibility, I believe, and if we can help, we should. Canada has
been the top supplier of nuclear fuel for many years, and I have always
thought that it is only proper that Canada should ultimately become the
steward and guarantor of the safe
storage of spent nuclear fuel after its first duty cycle. I will
arrange and participate in discussions in Canada, its provinces, and
potential partner countries to move the concept of a deep repository in
Northeastern Canada forward."
For its part, TEPCO is familiar with this method as it proposes to
simply dump into the Pacific Ocean contaminated water from its four
damaged nuclear reactors in Fukushima. In fact, the U.S. military
occupation forces privatized Japan's electricity sector in 1951
creating TEPCO along with eight other private enterprises in which U.S.
oligarchs could invest. TEPCO owns 11 nuclear reactors in Japan
including four reactors the tsunami destroyed in 2011 at its Fukushima
Daiichi facility. The company has not successfully decommissioned the
damaged reactors, which continue to emit radioactive contamination
blocking the return of 160,000 former residents and remediation of
the area. Emergency containment tanks holding contaminated water from
pipes to cool the reactors' cores are approaching their capacity. TEPCO
has applied for permission to release the toxic water into the Pacific
Ocean infuriating fishers and others concerned with such a practice.
This article was published in
April 16, 2021 - No. 29
Article Link:
https://cpcml.ca/WF2021/Articles/WO08293.HTM
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