Amid the sprawling canola fields, white spruce and jack pine trees, fireweed and goldenrods of northern Alberta, Pat McNamara is having a case of nuclear déjà vu.

Two decades ago, he lived in Port Hope, Ont., northeast of Toronto, in a community dealing with decades of nuclear ground contamination, including at his own daughter’s schoolyard.

He has since moved to the County of Northern Lights, halfway between Edmonton and the Northwest Territories.

When he learned earlier this year that residents, notably farmers, hadn’t heard about a proposed nuclear plant for the area — similar to one first proposed 15 years ago — he wanted to spread the word that when things go wrong, the damage is generational.

“These people are building up those properties and those farms to hand down to their kid

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