Ontario Power Generation's Bruce Nuclear Generating Station in Kincardine, Ontario, Canada -- with 9 reactors on one site, one of the single biggest nuclear power plants in the world -- is now targeted for Ontario's "low" and "intermediate" level radioactive waste dump as well. The so-called Deep Geologic Repository (DGR, or, more appropriately, DUD, for Deep Underground Dump) would be within a mile of the Lake Huron shoreline, and could very well open the door to a national Canadian high-level radioactive waste dump at, or near, the same site. All this, despite the Great Lakes comprising 20% of the world's surface fresh water, and serving as the drinking water supply for 40 million people in 8 U.S. states, 2 Canadian provinces, and a large number of Native American First Nations.Thanks to Dr. Gordon Edwards, long serving President of the Canadian Coalition for Nuclear Responsibility, for the following action alert:
Please ACT NOW (TODAY or TOMORROW) -- In typical bureacratic fashion, the powers that be have set JULY 5 as the DEADLINE for REGISTERING to make a "COMMENT" on plans to bury Nuclear Waste on the shore of Lake Huron for the next 500,000 years or more
http://www.nuclearsafety.gc.ca/intervention/eng/
(1) IF WE REGISTER WE DO NOT HAVE TO COMMENT NOW -- WE JUST HAVE THE GUARANTEE THAT WE CAN DO SO LATER IF WE WANT.
(2) REGISTERING IS VERY IMPORTANT NO MATTER WHAT ELSE WE DO OR DON'T DO, AS IT INDICATES A LEVEL OF PUBLIC INTEREST.
(3) A WRITTEN SUBMISSION CAN BE VERY SHORT AND GENERAL, OR LONGER AND MORE DETAILED -- THAT'S ENTIRELY UP TO US.
(4) AN ORAL SUBMISSION DOES NOT REQUIRE ATTENDANCE AT THE HEARING SITE -- IT CAN BE DONE BY "TELECONFERENCE" (I.E. PHONE).
(5) IF YOU REGISTER PLEASE COPY ME ("GORDON EDWARDS" CCNR@WEB.CA) AND I WILL SHARE SOME IDEAS TO HELP US FOCUS ON KEY ISSUES.
GORDON EDWARDS
Happy Canada Day (July 1) to all my Canadian friends and colleagues
Happy Independence Day (July 4) to all my American friends and colleagues
Happy Nuclear-Free Future Day to all inhabitants of planet Earth, human or otherwise