Natural Resources Canada told CBC News that waste rock from Rio Algom ' s mining operations was used as fill on some properties in Elliot Lake when the province still regulated uranium mining , prior to 1976 .
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Natural Resources Canada added in its email to the CBC that mining companies are
responsible for managing their waste , and the government of Canada only takes over if the producer no longer exists or if it was a Crown corporation .
But the CNSC does have the power to order a mining company , like BHP , to clean up that mine waste from people ' s properties .
" It actually made me angry because it ' s something I can ' t fix ," Carling said .
" Anything else that we have felt has gone wrong with the house we have fixed . We can ' t do this one . We don ' t have the licensing to move the material . We don ' t have access or licensing to store the radioactive material . So I ' m helpless and I ' m not very good at being helpless ."