Winona LaDuke Quotes:
Ocupation: Activist
Life: b. August 18, 1959
Birthday: August 18
Uranium mining in northern Canada has left over 120 million tons of radioactive waste. This amount represents enough material to cover the Trans-Canada Highway two meters deep across the country. Present production of uranium waste from Saskatchewan alone occurs at the rate of over 1 million tons annually. Since 1975, hospitalization for cancer, birth defects and circulatory illnesses in that area have increased dramatically - between 123 and 600 percent in that region.
topic: Uranium, Uranium Mining, Radioactive Waste, Birth Defects, Saskatchewan, Trans
