Physicians threaten to leave hospital if uranium exploration continues

The Globe and Mail reports that physicians, community organizers, municipal officials and residents are worried their community’s water supply will be contaminated with radiation as a result of proposed uranium mining. They fear their health and especially the health of their children, will be adversely affected. If a moratorium mirroring ones in British Columbia and Nova Scotia provinces is not instituted, the doctors are threatening to move their families away. This would leave the only hospital in town without a functional staff. The Quebec government is resisting calls for a moratorium.