Janet's Blog

Welcome to my blog. After decades of working extensively with First Nation communities, communications and corporate strategy and finally the mining sector, l have many stories to share about these great experiences. It’s an amazing world out there, incredible people and an underappreciated sector that drives our economy and quality of life. I highly recommend the road less travelled. Enjoy!

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Water Is Sacred. So Is the Truth.

View original article here Community loses its definition the moment we go deaf to our neighbors. The slow drive into the Hyatt Regency Tamaya Resort & Spa winds long and quiet through the Rio

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How Much Uranium is in New Mexico?

Happening Now – The Nuclear in New Mexico Conference The United States (U.S.) is targeting a historic expansion of nuclear energy, potentially tripling or even quadrupling capacity by 2050. This is the U.S. Nuclear

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What’s In It for New Mexico?

The United States has a uranium math quandary. We consume approximately 48 million pounds of uranium per year, yet we produce only about 2 million pounds. This means that the United States faces an

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Something Old – Something Borrowed

No, this is not a wedding announcement, but it is about something old, and something ‘borrowed’, if I may use the term ‘borrowed’ loosely.  In-Situ Recovery (ISR) uranium technology replaces conventional mining with wellfield

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How I Got Here

Moose Nose or Fish Head Stew

In my days in the Yukon, I had the great pleasure of working with almost every First Nation tribe (Known by Indian Band, Indigenous or Aboriginal group depending on where you live). In my

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Concentration Camps in Canada

It’s not a piece of history people like to discuss or recall but in WW2 there were an estimated 12 million people living in Canada Including 22,000 Japanese people who were either deported back

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In Loving Memory    

My first memory in life is of my Dad walking down the basement stairs in his navy uniform as I sat, still unable to crawl, on a blanket where my mom was doing the

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Happy 50th Anniversary of ISR!!

At some point last year, Dr. Dennis Stover, one of the founders behind the development of In-Situ Recovery Technology  (ISR) for uranium, sent me an article about the start-up of the Clay West Project

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Strange Lights in the Sky

When I took over the CEO role at a gold exploration company, my first tasks were to establish some financial stability, and to provide the behind-the-scenes support for our first work program. Eventually, with

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Happy 15th Anniversary

I have taken a break from my blog as frankly, life got a little busy. Bill, all know as my husband and someone I have worked with for….over 15 years….asked if I could arrange

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First Date

Many years ago, a geologist I knew was out in the field in northern Canada, head down looking at rocks-when a grizzly attacked him from behind. The unprovoked attack left him with permanent scars

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