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Michigan worriedIn Michigan, lawmakers worry that the facility might affect the Great Lakes, and they want Congress to help ensure Michigan’s concerns are fully resolved.

A state Senate resolution that was introduced by Democratic Sen. Hoon-Yung Hopgood of Taylor passed last week.

According to Ontario Power Generation, the deep geologic repository would be located 680 metres below ground, in stable rock formations over 450 million years old. (Ontario Power Generation)“Lake Huron and the Great Lakes are some of Michigan’s most vital natural resources, containing 95 per cent of North America’s surface fresh water and providing drinking water to tens of millions of people,” Hopgood said in a statement. “This type of nuclear waste repository, planned within water-soluble limestone, is unprecedented and could present a danger to our lakes and our environment.”

According to Hopgood, Michigan law already strictly prohibits the disposal of radioactive waste of any site within 16 kilometres (10 miles) of the Great Lakes and certain other major bodies of water connected to them.

Resolution 58, introduced by Hopgood and passed last week, urges Canada to consider similar criteria……

The group Stop the Great Lakes Nuclear Dump has been opposing the project for six months. It bought billboard space on the Gardiner Expressway in Toronto to make its point.

“Burying radioactive nuclear waste beside the Great Lakes — 21 per cent of the world’s surface fresh water, and the supply of fresh drinking water for 40 million people in two countries — defies common sense,” said Beverly Fernandez.http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/windsor/story/2013/05/27/wdr-nuclear-waste-lake-huron-ontario-power-generation.html