With legislature back in session for the fall sitting, opposition parties tabled a petition for the immediate reinstatement of the province’s ban on uranium exploration and mining with more than 10,000 signatures.
According to organizers, it is the largest petition in Nova Scotia history with over 80 per cent of postal codes across the province and marks the third time it’s been tabled since last October.
It calls for the government to immediately reinstate the decades-old moratorium on uranium exploration and put a legislative ban on it.
The PC’s lifted the ban in March of 2025.
Despite no companies responding to the province’s request for proposal’s last year, Sarah Trask, a homeopath from Vaughan, Nova Scotia says, “communities continue to feel vulnerable.”
“We all deserve to clean air to breathe, safe water to drink, and healthy communities in which to raise our children,” says Dr. Catherine Cervin, a retired physician and chair of the Nova Scotia chapter of Canadian Association of Physicians for the Environment.
“Irreversible, long-term harm can begin at the exploration stage, before any active mining, by disturbing uranium deposits releasing radioactive elements into the environment and groundwater.”
Houston has said that any projects would have to meet environmental standards.
