Public hearing to be held on shipment of nuclear waste through Great Lakes

[CHIMO]

Source: Terstar

Canada’s nuclear safety regulator has agreed to hold a public hearing into a controversial plan to ship 1,760 tonnes of radiation-laced steel through Lake Ontario.

The Canadian Nuclear Safety Commission said in a statement Thursday that “in light of public concern” over a proposal by Bruce Power to ship 16 steam generators through the Great Lakes and St. Lawrence Seaway the commission will hold a one-day hearing to consider the plan.

Though opponents to the shipment had been lobbying for such a hearing, the wording in the commission’s statement has only added to their concerns that the proposal will be approved with or without any public debate or input.

In its statement announcing the hearing, the commission said it “will not issue a licence unless it is satisfied the shipment will be completed safely,” but added that the commission’s staff had already “concluded that there are no safety significance issues associated with the proposed shipment.”



Read more: http://www.thestar.com/news/gta/article/842593--public-hearing-to-be-held-on-shipment-of-nuclear-waste-through-great-lakes?bn=1

[glinda]

1. Why do I think that something horrible will happen....hmmmmm

[Bobbieo]

2. We are bound and determined, in this country, to slowly poison ourselves.

No one, anywhere on Turtle Island, will be spared!!!

[elleng]

3. 'no safety significance'

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q0DqPSF2fyo

[Bobbieo]

4. When I was a kid growing up on the American side of the St Lawrence River - I used

to sit at the second floor bathroom window during the summers with binoculars to watch the lake boats go through the canal at Morrisburg, Ontario before the Seaway was built.

To me that was the most beautiful River in the world and those boats were just awesome. The Edmund Fitzgerald had a special meaning for me.

[villager]

5. Time to dig out your copies of "Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald?"

n/t