The targeted site for OPG's DGR, less than a mile from the Lake Huron shore!Dear Friends and Colleagues,
Please do one or more of the following ASAP, to help block Ontario Power Generation's (OPG) proposed Deep Geologic Repository (DGR) for burial of radioactive waste less than a mile from the Great Lakes shoreline at Bruce Nuclear Generating Station in Kincardine, Ontario, directly across Lake Huron from the Tip of Michigan's Thumb (note, the first two action items below have a deadline of 11:59pm Eastern time on Tuesday, September 1st):
1. Email the Canadian Environmental Assessment Agency at ceaa.conditions.acee@ceaa-acee.gc.ca, by 11:59pm Eastern time on Tuesday, September 1st, expressing your "unconditional opposition" to OPG's DGR (include "CEAA Reference No. 17520" so your comments can be routed to the correct docket).
2. Per Stop the Great Lakes Nuclear Dump, print this poster, fill in the blanks, take a selfie, post it on Facebook and Twitter, and email it to Canadian federal Environment Minister Leona Aglukkaq at Leona.Aglukkaq@parl.gc.ca by the Sept. 1 deadline.
3. If you haven't already, sign the Stop the Great Lakes Nuclear Dump petition. Even if you have signed it, spread the word, and urge everyone you know to also sign it.
4. If you haven't already, sign the Sum of Us petition. Again, even if you have signed it, spread the word, and urge everyone you know to also sign it.
5. Contact your two U.S. Senators, and your U.S. Representative (get patched through to their offices via the U.S. Capitol Switchboard at 202-224-3121), and urge them to co-sponsor the bipartisan U.S. Senate (S.Res. 134) and House (H.Res. 194) resolutions opposing the DGR; if they already have done so, thank them; if they have not, urge them to ASAP. Likewise, urge them to co-sponsor U.S. Senate and House legislation, the "Stop Nuclear Waste by Our Lakes Act," to be introduced by U.S. Sens. Stabenow and Peters, and U.S. Rep. Kildee (Democrats from Michigan), once Congress returns to session on Sept. 8. The "Stop Nuclear Waste by Our Lakes Act" will invoke the 1909 Boundary Waters Treaty, and mandate the U.S.-Canadian International Joint Commission (IJC) to undertake a comprehensive review of the DGR proposal.
6. Contact the White House, and urge President Obama to instruct Secretary of State Kerry to activate the IJC to undertake a comprehensive review of the DGR proposal.
If you have already done each of these action steps, THANK YOU! Please consider contacting your Members of Congress and the White House again, and urge everyone you know to take these actions as well! (Feel free to just forward this email.) Together, we must do all we can to stop OPG's DGR, and protect the Great Lakes -- drinking water supply for 40 million people in 8 U.S. states, 2 Canadian provinces, and a large number of Native American First Nations; more than 20% of the world's, and around 85% of North America's, surface fresh water; and the lifeblood of one of the world's single largest regional economies.
---Kevin Kamps, Radioactive Waste Watchdog, Beyond Nuclear (and board member, Don't Waste Michigan, representing the Kalamazoo chapter)
P.S. To learn more about the resistance to OPG's DGR, see Beyond Nuclear's Canada website section.