Survey showing support for nuclear waste bunker near Lake Huron ‘misleading’

As reported by the Canadian Press, "A public opinion survey used to bolster claims of widespread support for a proposed repository was misleading and actually found little backing for the project, critics say."

WASTE: US Congress Weighs in on Canadian Great Lakes Repository Plan

A February 10, 2017 article entitled "WASTE: US Congress Weighs in on Canadian Great Lakes Repository Plan," published in Nuclear Intelligence Weekly's (NIW) Vol. 11, No. 6 by NIW reporters James Irwin in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, and Stephanie Cooke in Washington, D.C., U.S.A., quotes former former Ontario Power Generation (OPG) scientist and whistle-blower Dr. Frank Greening, as well as Dr. Gordon Edwards of Canadian Coalition for Nuclear Responsibility. See the full article, reposted here with permission from NIW.

Public comments urgently needed by March 6 opposing OPG's DGR targeted at Great Lakes shore!

Public comments are needed by March 6 (a two-week extension from a previous deadline) re: Ontario Power Generation’s proposed radioactive waste dump (Deep Geologic Repository, DGR -- or better yet DUD, short for Deep Underground Dump!) targeted at Saugeen Ojibwe First Nation territory on the Great Lakes shore, at the Bruce Nuclear Generating Station. The proposed DUD scheme threatens the drinking water supply for 40 million people in the U.S. and Canada. (TransCanada Pipelines, infamous for its Keystone XL pipeline scheme, is a co-owner of Bruce Nuclear.)

Sample comments you can use to write your own will be posted here soon.

Comments can be sent, by the March 6 deadline, to:

Email -- CEAA.DGR.Project-Projet.DGR.ACEE@ceaa-acee.gc.ca

Snail Mail --

Deep Geologic Repository Project
Project Manager
Canadian Environmental Assessment Agency
160 Elgin Street, 22nd Floor, Ottawa ON  K1A 0H3
CANADA

SOS Great Lakes' analysis re: Ontario Power Generation’s Report of Findings of a Public Attitudes Poll Towards the Proposed Nuclear Waste Dump on Lake Huron

SOS Great Lakes' (also known as Save Our Saugeen Shores) executive summary of its analysis of "Ontario Power Generation's Report of Findings of a Public Attitudes Poll Towards the Proposed Nuclear Waste Dump on Lake Huron" states:

A review of sampling, methodology, and reporting of the Ontario Power Generation Report of the Deep Geologic Repository Study by the Gandalf Group shows:

• the entire poll, from sampling, through question design, to reporting is highly irregular;
• most questions are loaded with false or misleading assumptions designed to skew the response in favour of the DGR;
• there is no evidence to support OPG’s claim that the majority of people are in favour of building a DGR on Lake Huron;
• the only substantive finding supported by evidence shows most Ontarians (64%) believe the DGR poses a threat to public drinking water and to the health of the Lake.

If this study is to be believed, the data supports only one conclusion about Ontario public opinion on OPG’s proposed nuclear waste dump: it may be okay to build a DGR somewhere in Ontario, but not near Lake Huron.
These views are discussed under the above headings in this report.

SOS Great Lakes' analysis then provides additional detail.

Profits over people could spell nuclear disaster for Great Lakes

Op-Ed by Rep. Kevin Hertel (D-St. Clair Shores) represents Michigan’s 18th District in the House of Representatives, published in the Oakland Press.