Elliot Lake homeowners to get their day in court this week
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A group of Elliot Lake seniors and homeowners who have been fighting the Canadian government and by extension the Canadian Nuclear Safety Commission for the last three years over the radioactive backfill used under their homes will be getting their day in court on Wednesday.
It’s taken three long years just to get to this stage but there’s a sense of excitement in the voice of Jennifer Carling.
Carling and two others have been lobbying the Canadian government and the Canadian Nuclear Safety Commission for three years to take the issue of radioactive backfill in Elliot Lake seriously, on Wednesday they’ll get their day in court.
Oral arguments will be heard in Toronto for the group with help from the Canadian Environmental Law Association.
“I’m very, very excited. We finally get to have the presentations made before a judge and I’m just hoping,” said Carling.
“CELA has done a phenomenal job and putting this together, we have to put this in the hands of the judge, but I just hope he realizes we have a good solid case.”
We first introduced you to Carling and others last year. The group had private testing of their properties done. Their homes had been built, like much of Elliot Lake in the 1960s but they later learned radioactive backfill had been buried underneath some properties.
