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Concerned Citizens of Renfrew County and Area (CCRCA) is a non-governmental, volunteer organization that has been working for the clean-up and prevention of radioactive pollution from the nuclear industry in the Ottawa Valley for 40+ years. Our current focus is nuclear waste, in particular the proposed giant mound for one million cubic meters of radioactive waste at Chalk River, Ontario and the proposed “entombment” of the Nuclear Power Demonstration reactor at Rolphton, Ontario. Both of these proposed nuclear waste disposal projects risk contaminating the Ottawa River, a drinking water source for millions of Canadians. Check out our popular one-page fact sheets  here
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Le grave problème des déchets radioactifs du Gouvernement canadien – annonce pleine-page dans le Hill Times






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Islands and rapids in the Ottawa River downstream of Chalk River~photo by Ray Nash


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“No Nuke Dump on the Ottawa River”, Riverkeeper Parade, September 10, 2017

			

	

				
			


		
	


	
	
		

		

		

		
	

		
“How can it possibly be ethical and environmentally-responsible to put plutonium and other very long-lived radioactive wastes in a landfill beside the Ottawa River? I have talked to many people on both sides of the river, all the way to Montreal, and everyone I have spoken to thinks this is a terrible idea.”

	

	


		
Johanna Echlin

	

	



		
	

		
“It appears that annual expenditures for AECL more than doubled to almost one billion dollars after privatization. We are asking the Minister of Natural Resources to account for this increase”.

	

	


		
Ole Hendrickson, CCRCA researcher