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It would be a six-year project," Cartan said.

The MNR's most recent cost estimate put the project in the realm of $60 million, however, that may no longer be the case.

"That was a few years ago," he said. "So it is going to be more than that now."

Most of the radar bases are situated along the Hudson Bay and James Bay coasts.

There are two more southern sites, one along the railway between Cochrane and Moosonee and the other just north of the Ramore area.

While most of these sites are out of the general public's view, its environmental impacts have been crippling to the people of Ontario's far north.

For Daniel Koostachin one site near his home of Peawanuck has forever disrupted his family's lifestyle.

Koostachin's father had about 12-square kilometres of traditional land he used as a trap line.

Today, not a single inch of that land can be used.

What wasn't destroyed by the construction of the radar base, has been contaminated by the chemicals that DND left behind, he said.

"They came in and destroyed everything," he said.

"Everything my father had is now gone."

Koostachin's father died in the mid-'80s, but until his death he fought the federal government throughout his elderly life. He started by trying to bargain with DND.

"My father said if they got off the land and if they moved everything away he would give them $2,000," Koostachin said.

When that didn't work Koostachin's father began demanding that he be compensated for the land.

He wanted $5,000 for the land that he believed was stolen from him. But without a lawyer and unable to speak any of Canada's official languages, the Cree elder could not reach any kind of settlement before his death.

Koostachin wants to continue his father's fight, however, without a lawyer or the means to obtain legal advice he said he feels lost within a legal maze.

The site near Peawanuck is a mountain of rusted barrels. Some 50,000 of these drums have been left near the Winisk River and thousands have already rusted out its contents, said NDP MP Charlie Angus.

Angus said he couldn't verify Koostachin's claim to the destroyed land near Peawanuck, but it's a story shared by possibly thousands of people.

The blood levels of fish and animals near some of these abandoned radar bases have 16,000 times the allowable level of PCBs.

"It's a horror story," Angus said. "The federal government kept an eye on this for years and never told anyone - they simply issued occasional warnings for people not to eat the fish."

The warnings alone are meaningless.

Wild meat and fish make up such a major part of the diet in the far north that a simple warning, in English, won't help anyone, he said. But negotiations for a cleanup plan continue and Angus admits that it's the best news the ongoing clean-up story has ever had.

The province wants to take care of the cleanup using 50-50 cost sharing model between it and the federal government.

That cost-sharing model is the backbone of the negotiations.

In the past, however, DND hasn't been keen on that model.

For decades the responsibility of the toxic radar base sites has been in limbo between the federal and provincial governments.

The fact that DND has openly agreed to participate in negotiations with Ontario's MNR is "a really big step in the right direction," Angus said.

"We have taken the biggest step, and that's getting the federal government to recognize it has a responsibility."

- Timmins Daily News

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