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Call for General Electric to remove uranium processing facility from populated area

“The question is, is this the right kind of operation that should be in the middle of people’s backyards?”

Councillor asks uranium plant to shut down Facility on Lansdowne has been quietly processing nuclear fuel for decades Toronto NOW, 23 Nov 12 By BEN SPURR Amid mounting concerns from his west downtown community, a city councillor is asking controversial uranium plant on Lansdowne Ave. to pack up and move out of his ward.

 In a motion that will go before council next week, Councillor Cesar Palacio is requesting that the city work with General Electric-Hitachi on a five-year plan to phase out the production of nuclear fuel pellets at the company’s Davenport Village facility.
“The question is, is this the right kind of operation that should be in the middle of people’s backyards?” Palacio says. “This use is not compatible with the rest of the community.”…
At recent community meetings, residents have vented their anger at GE-Hitachi officials, as well as Palacio himself, for not alerting them to the operation. NOW first published a story on the plant in October, but before it received media coverage few residents knew that nuclear fuel was being produced in their midst. Palacio says he didn’t know about it until he read the media reports, and accuses the company of keeping him out of the loop.
Zach Ruiter, an anti-nuclear activist, went door to door in the neighbourhood last month warning people about the plant, which has been converting uranium powder into nuclear reactor fuel pellets for fifty years. He says that Palacio’s five-year phase-out proposal doesn’t move nearly fast enough. …. http://www.nowtoronto.com/news/story.cfm?content=189925

November 25, 2012 - Posted by | Canada, opposition to nuclear, Uranium

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