Ottawa - Civil society organizations are calling on Natural Resources Minister Jonathon Wilkinson to honour commitments made by his predecessor Seamus O’Regan to engage with Canadians on appropriate strategies for the management of radioactive waste rather than simply rubber stamping the nuclear industry’s recommended approach.On July 4th the Nuclear Waste Management Organization (NWMO) announced that it had submitted its “recommendations”…
JONESBOROUGH, Tenn. (WJHL) – 150 years after disease ravaged Tennessee’s oldest town, historians believe they’ve discovered a mass grave of residents struck down by cholera. 1873: Pestilence Visits Jonesborough In the summer of 1873, a wave of cholera swept the American South. The disease, caused by a bacterial infection of Vibrio cholerae, followed railroad lines […]