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Scratched off the nuclear waste dump list – 2 Bruce County communities

No nuclear waste for two Bruce County communities Two Bruce County communities have been ruled unsuitable as sites to store used nuclear fuel The Star, 16 Jan 14 Two Bruce County communities have been scratched from the list of possible sites for a high-level nuclear waste storage site.

Neither Saugeen Shores nor neighbouring Arran-Elderslie have the physical characteristics to make them suitable to store high-level nuclear waste, theNuclear Waste Management Organization (NWMO) has concluded.

Eliminating the two communities still leaves three others in the area  One town in Saskatchewan also remains a candidate for the waste site, as do a string of locations in Northern Ontario.

The proposed waste site has split opinion in the Saugeen Shores area, which is not far from the Bruce nuclear station, the region’s biggest employer in the running: Brockton, South Bruce, and Huron-Kinloss…….

Cheryl Grace of Save Our Saugeen Shores said Thursday that her group is “enormously pleased and relieved” that the “highly inappropriate” proposal to put the waste site in the town has been scrapped……

In Saugeen Shores, which covers a smaller area but is more built-up, the NWMO couldn’t find a suitable location largely because of surface development. http://www.thestar.com/business/economy/2014/01/16/bruce.html

January 18, 2014 - Posted by | Uncategorized

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