Jennifer Carling is concerned about the potential repercussions of living in a decades-old subdivision of Elliot Lake, Ont., that’s now under the microscope.
Carling is one of four homeowners in the former northern Ontario uranium mining town who want the federal Canadian Nuclear Safety Commission and mining company BHP to address high levels of radiation on their properties.
According to the families and their legal representatives, their homes are on a site that held mine waste and it was never properly cleaned up.
Uranium mining operations in Elliot Lake ended in 1996, and work to decommission and remediate those mines was completed in 2002. BHP acquired the historical mines sites from
