Kingston Whig-Standard
Both sides of a dispute over a potential uranium mine north of Kingston hope to reach a temporary truce as early as Thursday.Frontenac Ventures Corp. has asked the Ontario Superior Court of Justice to grant a permanent injunction against protesters who are blocking the entrance to a uranium prospecting area north of Sharbot Lake.
If granted, the court could potentially force the protesters to leave, among other options. (Edit: Not with a police force who refuse to enforce court orders against Natives)
Frontenac Ventures is also suing the protesters for $77 million.
The protesters, members of the Ardoch and Shabot Obaadjiwan Algonquin Nations, are counter-suing Frontenac Ventures and plan to ask the court to kick the prospecting firm off the land.
The judge asked Reid, Smitheman and Stephen Reynolds, who represents the Shabot Obaadjiwan Algonquin, to return Thursday with a point-form, one-page list of concessions that they hope the other side will make for them.
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