Uranium Mining 2008

Dec 4/08 Shabot Obaadjiwan Comes to Accommodation Agreement with Frontenac Ventures
It took almost six months of negotiations, but the Shabot Obaadjiwan First Nation, along with their Algonquin Land Claim partners, have inked an agreement with the Government of Ontario and Frontenac Ventures Corporation.

Nov 6/08 Pray for the Land
A group of rain-soaked people gathered by the side of the Robertsville road last weekend for a two-day “Pray for the Land” event. They received an advisory from the OPP a couple of days before the event telling them that...

Oct 23/08 Frontenac Ventures Makes Plans for 2009
A gathering is being planned for Saturday and Sunday at the Robertsville mine gate, as rumours that Frontenac Ventures Corporation has vacated the Robertsville site for good have been denied by Frontenac Ventures President George White.

Sep 4/08 Alienated Lands and Leases: Exploration in North Frontenac
A seemingly innocuous statement by Frontenac Ventures President George White has touched a nerve with negotiators from the Shabot Obaadjiwaan First Nation, who have cut off negotiations with the company...

Jul 10/08 Why Appeals Court Supports Ardoch Algonquins
Ardoch Algonquin First Nations’ lawyer Chris Reid may well have felt his legal arguments fell on deaf ears on February 18 in Kingston Superior Court when Justice Cunningham sentenced his clients Bob Lovelace and Paula Sherman to six months jail time and levied a total of $50,000...

Jun 26/08 "Frontenac Venture Won't Drill Before July 21" says Davis
Shabot Obaadjiwan Chief Doreen Davis told the News on Monday that after intensive negotiations with the Ontario Ministries of Mines and Aboriginal Affairs and Frontenac Ventures Corporation, a pilot consultation framework is slated to be announced by the end of this week...

Jun 19/08 Shabot Obaadjiwan Claim Breakthrough in Mining Consultation
In a press statement released on Friday of last week, the Shabot Obbadjiwaan First Nation said it had won “a key concession from Ontario in its efforts to protect the environment and citizens of their traditional territory...

Jun 12/08 Uranium: Lots of Speculation, But No Drilling
The rumour mill has been working on overdrive this week ever since it was reported that a pickup truck bearing the insignia of a drilling company was seen entering the gate at the Robertsville mine over the weekend...

Jun 5/08 Robertsville Protesters All Free, But What Next?
In a Kingston courtroom on Monday, Frontenac Ventures lead counsel Neal Smitheman confirmed to Justice Cunningham what he had already communicated to the lawyers for Bob Lovelace and six other so-called “settlers” who had been summoned to court: the company will not be proceeding with contempt of court charges against any of them at this time.

Jun 5/08 Editorial: Ministry Silence Still Deafens
Exactly 11 months ago I wrote an editorial called “The silence of the ministry” about what was then a three-week old occupation of the Robertsville mine site by Algonquin protestors. Almost a year later, a lot has happened, but the situation is far from resolved.

May 15/08 Aboriginal Affairs Minister Visits Shabot Obaadjiwan
Michael Bryant, Ontario Minister of Aboriginal Affairs,  was in Sharbot Lake on May 8 to hold talks with the Shabot Obaadjiwan First Nation. The main subject of the discussions was the uranium exploration at Robertsville, Ontario, a few minutes north of Sharbot Lake on Hwy 509.

May 1/08 Lovelace Speaks Out On Uranium

Mar 27/08 Editorial: Things Have Changed in Robertsville
A few people gathered on public property near the Robertsville site on March 16, expressing no intention of blocking anyone from entering the site. One of them planted a sign in the snow at the side of the roadway and they were all summoned to court to face contempt charges.

Mar 20/08 New Contempt Charges Laid In Uranium Dispute
Just as old contempt of court charges were being withdrawn, new charges were being laid as the continuing Frontenac Ventures Court case took over the County court house...

Feb 21/08 Lovelace Sentenced 6 Months for Contempt of Court
In a Kingston courtroom last week, Superior Court Justice Douglas Cunningham heard Frontenac Ventures’ Lawyer Neal Smitheman propose 27 weeks of jail time and hefty fines for Robert Lovelace and Paula Sherman of the Ardoch Algonquin First Nation.

Feb 14/08 Shabot Obaadjiwaan Leadership backs out of Robertsville
Of the eight individuals who were facing potentially severe financial penalties as the result of contempt of court charges being pursued in Kingston Court by Frontenac Ventures Corporation, three have had their matters deferred; two have backed out and committed to ending their obstruction; and three were left to face...

Feb 7/08 Mediations Fall Through
A mediation process that had been ongoing since December in an attempt to resolve a dispute between members of the Ardoch and Shabot Obaadjiwaan First Nations and the Government of Ontario has broken down, and crew members from Frontenac Ventures Corporation were refused entry at the gate ...

Feb7/08 Uranium mining in Ontario: Economic Boom or Environmental Disaster?
The impasse over uranium exploration in North Frontenac is being played out as a jurisdictional dispute between two local Algonquin communities and the Province of Ontario...

Jan 31/08 All Quiet at Robertsville
The Sharbot Lake OPP station parking lot was full to the brim with police cars on Monday, January 28, in anticipation of the possibility that the winter calm that has descended on the Robertsville mine site might be broken...

Jan 24/08 Frontenac Ventures Announces Drilling Delay
While lawyers for Frontenac Ventures Corporation have taken the position that the company will be in a position to start drilling test holes for uranium on their 30,000 acre mining claim in North Frontenac as of January 28, the company’s project manager, Jamie Fairchild, said they will not be ready for at least ...

Jan 10/08 Tough Slugging as Mediation Goes Into Closed Session
Mediation talks aimed at avoiding conflict at the Robertsville mine site in North Frontenac and averting contempt of court proceedings against Algonquin and non-Algonquin protesters took a strange turn when they resumed in Kingston...