Source: freep.com
Who in their right mind would “plan” to store radioactive nuclear waste within one mile of 20% of the world’s freshwater supply? Apparently, there are some people in Canada who think that’s a sane notion.
This storage facility would be situated across Lake Huron from Detroit’s freshwater intake location and upstream from Toledo, Cleveland, Erie, Buffalo, Rochester, Syracuse, Hamilton, Toronto, Oshawa, Kingston, Montreal, and Quebec City. Even the most minuscule error could taint the drinking water for all these urban centers for decades. Doesn’t anyone recall what happened earlier this year in Charleston, West Virginia when a non-radioactive chemical pollutant that got into that city’s water supply?
Source: mnn.com
This has to be the stupidest idea ever put forth since the dawn of time. Given the geographic enormity of Canada, why doe this have to be located in such a vulnerable location.
One would hope the regulatory bodies in Canada would toss the idea aside as ludicrous, but in today’s money-centric world, who the hell knows? If you are opposed to this insane plan, please speak up and quickly! Here are some pertinent organizations:
- http://www.nuclearsafety.gc.ca/eng/waste/index.cfm
- http://www.nuclearwaste.ca/
- http://www.opg.com/Pages/home.aspx
- http://michigan.sierraclub.org/
- http://ontario.sierraclub.ca/
- http://www.michigan.gov/deq
- http://www.ontario.ca/ministry-environment
- http://glc.org/ – Great Lakes Commission
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