Dec 20/07 Uranium Mediation Update
The mediation talks between the Shabot Obaadjiwaan and Ardoch Algonquins and the Government of Ontario faced more weather problems this week, when two days of scheduled talks were...

Dec 6/07 Mediation Starts Slowly in Uranium Dispute
It wasn’t until Tuesday morning that all of the parties to a mediation process concerning uranium exploration in North Frontenac gathered at Katie’s Pub at the Sharbot Lake Country Inn. And even then the mediation began with baby steps.

Nov 15/07 Last Minute Negotiations
The backroom manoeuvring between lawyers for the Ardoch and Shabot Obaadjiwaan First Nations, the governments of Canada and Ontario, the OPP and Frontenac Ventures...

Nov 15/07 Uranium: Power or Poison?
The current round of politics that are focused on uranium exploration in Frontenac County has now lasted from Good Friday to Remembrance Day, and have ...

Nov 8/07 Frontenac Ventures Returns to Robertsville
Peter Jorgensen, the owner of the Robertsville mine, along with Jamie Fairchild of Frontenac Ventures Corporation, have been on the site, and ...

Oct 25/07 Deal or No Deal: Contempt of Court Proceedings Hang in the Balance
An agreement that would lead to a 12-week mediation process and would enable Frontenac Ventures Corporation to access their ...

Oct 11/07 Algonquins Will Leave Robertsville Site if Province Agrees to  Terms
As of late Tuesday night, October 9, the Shabot Obaadjiwaan (Sharbot Lake) and Ardoch Algonquins had agreed to amended wording in an agreement to set up a 12-week mediation process with the government of Ontario, and were ...

Oct 11/07 Starving for Change
Donna Dillman is a Lanark Highlands-based grandmother and political activist who has...

Oct 4/07 A Week in the Life of the Robertsville Mine Occupation
The anti-uranium exploration protest has progressed in diverse political and legal directions over the past week.

Sep 27/07 Two Solitudes: A Kingston Courtroom & the Mississippi River The ongoing occupation of the Robertsville mine site, access point to a 30,000 acre mining claim...

Sep 20/07 Mr. Kittle Goes to  Ottawa
John Kittle is a soft-spoken Snow Road resident who has taken on a spokesperson’s role within the group, Concerned Citizens Against Mining Uranium (CCAMU).

Sep 20/07 Counter Suit Filed: Ardoch & Shabot Lake Algonguins seek $10 million
from Frontenac Ventures, 1.3 Million from Province

Sep 20/07 North Frontenac Takes Stand on Uranium Moratorium
It came in spite of considerable opposition from Mayor Maguire, but ...

Sep 13/07 Algonquins Accept Court Summons
In a Kingston courtroom on September 18, two OPP officers testified about what they’ve seen at the Robertsville mine site since an injunction was served on August 31

Sep 13/07 Flotilla Leaves Saturday
At 11:00 am on Saturday, September 24, a canoe flotilla will be launched from the bridge at Ardoch. Some of the canoes are bound for Ottawa and a rally at Parliament Hill.

Sep 13/ 07 Central Frontenac Calls for a Moratorium on Uranium Exploration
Central Frontenac has joined with Lanark Highlands in asking the Province of Ontario to declare “an immediate moratorium on uranium mineral exploration and mining in...

Sep 6/07 Anti-uranium activities entering a new phase
It has been more than interesting to watch the politics that have developed around uranium exploration in North and Central Frontenac over the past year and a bit ... 

Aug 30/07 Candidates Deepen Position on mining in LFL&A
A veritable media scrum took place along a lonely stretch of road north of Clarendon this week, with CTV, Global, CKWS and CBC radio vying for a word from OPP officials and local Algonquin leaders.It’s fair to say...

Aug 30/07 Robertsville mine occupation:
Judge orders Algonquins to leave - company given "unfettered access"...

Aug 23/07 Defiance greets interim injunction
Members of the Shabot Obaadjiwaan and Ardoch Algonquin First Nations kept their camp in place last week as a court-imposed deadline for them to leave the Robertsville mine site came and went...

Aug 9/07 Terms of Adjournment
Lawyers for Frontenac Ventures Corporation and the Shabot Obaadjiwan and Ardoch Algonquin First Nations will hear this week what interim terms a Kingston judge will place on the parties involved in a $77 million lawsuit. After a three day hearing, which Steve Reynolds, the lawyer for...

Aug 2/07 Lawsuits hit the courts
“I would like to see this thing move along,” said Judge Thomson of the Kingston Superior Court as he faced one active and at least one pending lawsuit, with six lawyers representing different parties, in a hastily convened...

Jul 26/07: Frontenac Ventures initiates lawsuit against Algonquins at mine site
Frontenac Ventures Corporation has initiated legal proceedings against the Shabot Obaadjiwaan First Nation, the Ardoch Algonquin First Nation, and the leadership of the two communities: Doreen Davis, Paula Sherman, Randy Cota, Bob Lovelace, and Harold Perry. The Ardoch and Sharbot Lake communities have occupied the Robertsville mine...

July 19, 2007: Rallying ends and lawyering begins
The second, and for the foreseeable future, final rally and march along Highway 7 protesting plans by Frontenac Ventures Corporation to explore for uranium in parts of North and Central Frontenac took place last Friday, July 13. A mixed crowd of Algonquin, other First Nation, and non-aboriginal people joined together in much the same manner...

July 12, 2007: Rally and march demonstrate support for Algonquin occupation
After being contacted through electronic means such as e-mail and Facebook, and an old-fashioned telephone tree, more than 300 people made their way to the corner of Hwys. 509 and 7 on the afternoon of July 8 for a march along Highway 7. The diverse crowd, which included politicians, landowners, members of the local non-status Algonquin...

July 5, 2007: Robertsville mine owner and tenant both say they will stay away
Rumours circulated over the long weekend about possible attempts by Peter Jorgensen, the owner of the Robertsville mine, or George White, the President of Frontenac Ventures Corporation, to bring equipment onto the Robertsville mine site. However, when contacted on Monday, both men said they had no plans to bring men...

July 5, 2007: Editorial: the silence of the ministry
Over the past three weeks I’ve talked to many people on all sides of the uranium mining issue in North Frontenac, and I’ve seen a debate over the dangers of uranium and the benefits of a mine turn into a full-fledged aboriginal occupation of the Robertsville mine, literally in front of my eyes. It seems to me that everyone that I’ve talked to is acting...

July 5, 2007: Six days at the Robertsville mine: anti-uranium action could last indefinitely
On Thursday morning, June 28, members of the Shabot Obaadjiwan First Nation and the Ardoch Algonquin First Nation entered the grounds of the Robertsville mine site, which is located about 10 kilometres north of Sharbot Lake on Hwy. 509. The site includes an ore processing building and some other steel buildings, which were cordoned off...

June 28, 2007: Algonquin solidarity over uranium exploration
George White, the President of Frontenac Ventures Corporation, said this week that he is hoping to come to a “memorandum of understanding” with Chief Doreen Davis of the Shabot Obaadjiwan First Nation over uranium exploration in North Frontenac. However, Doreen Davis seems to be having none of it. “I said to him [George White]...

June 21, 2007: Frontenac Venture Corporation outlines plans
Frontenac Venture Corporation is a mining exploration company that was founded by George White, the retired Vice President of Westburne Industrial Enterprise Ltd. White is not new to the Mississippi Station/Snow Road area. Thirty years ago he was involved in prospecting uranium in the same region, “until Three Mile Island...

June 21, 2007: Uranium exploration splits community
A group of North Frontenac residents, along with members of the Ardoch Algonquin First Nation Family Heads council, and local anti-mining activists, who are all concerned about the prospect of uranium exploration and mining in the township, were planning to have an organizational meeting this past Sunday at the Snow Road Hall...

April 12, 2007: North Frontenac mining group planned
It was a full house at the Snow Road Snowmobile clubhouse on Good Friday morning as a group of local residents and municipal politicians from Lanark and Frontenac Counties gathered to hear from Maureen Towaij of the Citizen’s Mining Action Group (CMAG) of Tay Valley, and Marilyn Crawford from the Bedford Mining Alert (BMA)...

April 5, 2007: Uranium mining in Frontenac County?
The Frontenac Venture Corporation will be diamond drilling for samples of uranium-rich granite at sites in Central and North Frontenac starting next spring, but the possibility of a uranium mine being constructed in Frontenac County is slim...

April 5, 2007: Uranium mining a threat to our properties
Last year, you may have noticed disturbing news reports in the media about uranium prospecting in Eastern Ontario. As prospectors moved in and “staked” claims on both Crown and private properties, cottage and homeowners became very upset about the impact of mining on their lakes and watersheds and property values...