Premier Wall interview on CBC Radio THE HOUSE on Feb 28.09
Posted: Sat Feb 28, 2009 9:02 amPremier Wall interview on THE HOUSE - February 28, 2009
To: The House <thehouse@cbc.ca>
To the Producers of the program THE HOUSE :
I understand Premier Wall will be guest on The House Saturday, February 28, 2009.
For meaningful public service information, you need another voice on the program, a voice which authoritatively and independently raises this environmental safety issues related to the extraction and the several uses of Saskatchewan mined uranium.
In Saskatchewan, the best research into these issues has been done by Jim Harding, now retired from the faculty of the University of Regina. Jim Harding is the son of Bill Harding, who first debated Premier Allan Blakeney on these same issues. Jim Harding has followed the issues in great detail. His book on the issues is up-to-date and probably the most comprehensive.
This issue is serious. The fact that Premier Wall, like Premier Blakeney, has political status is no guarantee of scientific competence with respect to the dangers of industrial development.
In fact, politicians in government and in opposition, and of course, corporation CEOs, have in the last eighty years made the greatest mistakes – mistakes made because they avoided and ignored warnings voiced by better informed independent laymen and scientists.
For CBC producers to avoid complete information about these issues is to fail in their mandate to serve the public interest.
The CBC must be very independent, ensuring that all hard questions are posed to challenge our glorious leaders in industry and government.
Respectfully,
Jacob Rempel,
Vancouver, Canada
(Formerly neighbour to Mr.Wall’s parents near Swift Current, Saskatchewan.
To: The House <thehouse@cbc.ca>
To the Producers of the program THE HOUSE :
I understand Premier Wall will be guest on The House Saturday, February 28, 2009.
For meaningful public service information, you need another voice on the program, a voice which authoritatively and independently raises this environmental safety issues related to the extraction and the several uses of Saskatchewan mined uranium.
In Saskatchewan, the best research into these issues has been done by Jim Harding, now retired from the faculty of the University of Regina. Jim Harding is the son of Bill Harding, who first debated Premier Allan Blakeney on these same issues. Jim Harding has followed the issues in great detail. His book on the issues is up-to-date and probably the most comprehensive.
This issue is serious. The fact that Premier Wall, like Premier Blakeney, has political status is no guarantee of scientific competence with respect to the dangers of industrial development.
In fact, politicians in government and in opposition, and of course, corporation CEOs, have in the last eighty years made the greatest mistakes – mistakes made because they avoided and ignored warnings voiced by better informed independent laymen and scientists.
For CBC producers to avoid complete information about these issues is to fail in their mandate to serve the public interest.
The CBC must be very independent, ensuring that all hard questions are posed to challenge our glorious leaders in industry and government.
Respectfully,
Jacob Rempel,
Vancouver, Canada
(Formerly neighbour to Mr.Wall’s parents near Swift Current, Saskatchewan.