Jennifer Carling wants the Canadian Nuclear Safety Commission (CNSC) to order mining company BHP to clean up radioactive mine waste from her property in Elliot Lake, Ont.
But the CNSC says it’s not its responsibility.
Carling and two other families in the former uranium mining town are now part of a court challenge against the CNSC. They argue waste rock from mines fall under the commission’s jurisdiction, and that it should submit an order for it to be cleaned up.
Elliot Lake was northern Ontario’s uranium mining hub for several decades. Its last mine closed in 1996 and work to remediate those mines went
