Stop The Great Lakes Nuclear Dump Delivers 184 Resolutions to Canadian Environment Minister Catherine McKenna
January 26, 2016
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Beverly Fernandez of Stop the Great Lakes Nuclear Dump has announced a media release, which begins:
TORONTO – January 25, 2016: Stop The Great Lakes Nuclear Dump delivers 184 resolutions representing 22 million people to Minister of Environment and Climate Change McKenna, Prime Minister Trudeau and the Federal Cabinet. Delivery of the resolutions follows the January 19th submission to Minister McKenna of the Stop The Great Lakes Nuclear Dump petition signed by over 92,000 people opposing OPG’s plan.
Resolutions passed by local governments in Ontario and in all 8 U.S. Great Lakes states, the Michigan Senate, the National Association of Counties and the Great Lakes Legislative Caucus, are all opposed and calling for the rejection of Ontario Power Generation’s (OPG) application to build an underground Deep Geological Repository (DGR) for radioactive nuclear waste within the Municipality of Kincardine on the shores of Lake Huron, or anywhere in the Great Lakes Basin. See letter attached.
Resolutions from major Great Lakes cities include: Toronto, Mississauga, London, Sarnia, Thunder Bay, Kingston, Brampton, Oakville, Windsor, Chicago, Detroit, Flint, Milwaukee, Rochester and numerous other cities, counties and municipalities surrounding the Great Lakes.
The resolutions and petition inform the Minister of the extensive opposition to OPG’s plan well in advance of March 1st, 2016 (the decision deadline date as set by the Canadian government).