The Passamaquoddy Nation is calling for the removal of the Point Lepreau nuclear generating station.

Chief Hugh Akagi said the power plant is built on Passamaquoddy land.

"There are people today who still remember the Passamaquoddy village that was here — the summer village — and how natives from Sipayik, which is Pleasant Point in Maine, would paddle their canoes around our bay and up into Lepreau and camp there for the summer where they would do their hunting and fishing on a seasonal basis," said Akagi.

Akagi said he's presented documents to the federal government to back up that claim. He worries that future generations will be left to deal with nuclear waste. The Passamaquoddy have now joined a coalition lobbying for the plant to be decommissioned.