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In a statement this week, U.S. congressman Dan Kildee said he would use the additional time to keep pressing for an alternative to the proposed site.

“This delay until after Canada’s next election clearly demonstrates that this project is controversial, both in Canada and the U.S.,” Kildee said. “I hope that Canada considers a different location for a site.”……..

more than 150 communities, many in the U.S., have passed resolutions opposing the plan. They include cities such as Chicago and Toronto.

“Surely in the vast land mass that comprises Canada, there must be a better place to permanently store nuclear waste than on the shores of Lake Huron,” Kildee said.

Illinois Senator Mark Kirk, co-chairman of the Senate Great Lakes Task Force, recently urged President Barack Obama to press Ottawa to delay approval of the project and let the independent International Joint Commission that oversees the lakes look at the proposal. http://london.ctvnews.ca/delay-in-nuclear-waste-decision-sign-burial-plan-politically-fraught-critics-1.2415916