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Save Great Lakes meeting fills Detroit hall

Capacity crowd attends ‘Save the Great Lakes from Nuclear Waste’ town hall meeting Macomb Daily By GINA JOSEPH
Gina.joseph@macombdaily.com; @ginaljoseph, 08/20/13  The tide opposing a proposed Canadian underground nuclear waste repository on the shore of Lake Huron appears to be rising.
“I was very happy with the turnout but given the magnitude of the potential risk I wish hundreds more would have been here,” said State Rep. Sarah Roberts (D-St. Clair Shores) referring to the crowd attending last night’s ‘Save the Great Lakes from Nuclear Waste’ public forum at Wayne State University in Detroit. “Tonight demonstrated to me that there are many concerned citizens who care about our Great Lakes, our public health, our drinking water and the potential danger of the proposed underground repository.”

Ontario Power Generation wants the Canadian federal government to approve its plan to bury low and intermediate level radioactive nuclear waste under the Bruce Nuclear Power Plant, located on the shore of Lake Huron in the municipality of Kincardine.

Kincardine is less than three hours from the Blue Water Bridge in Port Huron and north of Grand Bend, Ont. Roberts, who introduced a resolution urging Congress to oppose the underground nuclear waste dump, co-hosted the public forum on the proposed nuclear waste dump along with State. Sen. Hoon-Yung Hopgood (D-Taylor), who introduced a similar resolution that was unanimously passed by the Michigan Senate.

If the license is approved by the federal government, Ontario Power Generation will construct a deep geologic repository (DGR), consisting of burial caverns carved out of limestone and shale rock formations, less than a mile inland from the shore of Lake Huron and about 440 yards below the Great Lakes basin…… http://www.macombdaily.com/article/20130820/NEWS03/130829994/capacity-crowd-attends-save-the-great-lakes-from-nuclear-waste-town-hall-meeting

August 21, 2013 - Posted by Christina Macpherson | opposition to nuclear, USA