Canada's Deadly Secret: Saskatchewan Uranium and the Global Nuclear System is a 2007 book by Jim Harding which chronicles the struggle over Saskatchewan's uranium mining, and demonstrates the negative impacts on Aboriginal rights and environmental health, and the effect of free trade. Harding argues that nuclear energy cannot mitigate global warming and that the "peaceful nuclear technology" does not exist. Helen Caldicott wrote the foreword to the book.[1]

Canada's Deadly Secret: Saskatchewan Uranium and the Global Nuclear System
AuthorJim Harding
LanguageEnglish
SubjectNuclear industry
GenreNon fiction
PublisherFernwood Publishing
Publication date
October 1, 2007
Publication placeCanada
Media typePrint
Pages272
ISBN978-1552662267

Jim Harding is an emeritus professor of environmental and justice studies and was director of research for Prairie Justice Research at the University of Regina. He is a founding member of the Regina Group for a Non-Nuclear Society and International Uranium Congress. Harding also acted as Prairie Correspondent for Nuclear Free Press and consultant to the award-winning film Uranium,[1] a 1990 documentary about uranium mining in Canada.[2]

Several reviews of the book have been published.[3][4]

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  1. ^ a b "Canada's Deadly Secret - Saskatchewan Uranium and the Global Nuclear System". Archived from the original on 2007-12-14. Retrieved 2008-06-25.
  2. ^ Uranium, film
  3. ^ Marita Moll (July 10, 2008). "Review: Canada's Deadly Secret: Saskatchewan Uranium and the Global Nuclear System". Canadian Dimension.
  4. ^ Christopher Gifford (n.d.). "Saskatchewan Uranium" (PDF). Spokesman books.