New educational video on Canada’s plan for nuclear waste dump near Great Lakes

Group opposed to nuclear waste dump produces short educational video, The Voice January 23, 2016 “……………”The Great Lakes are under attack from the threat of radioactive nuclear waste being buried on its shores. Ontario Power Generation plans to bury and abandon radioactive nuclear waste less than a mile from the shore of the Great Lakes.”

That’s the nut-shelled version of the new 3.5-minute video from Stop the Great Lakes Nuclear Dump, the Canadian group that has been spearheading an international petition drive to convince the Canadian government not to proceed with a plan to build a Deep Geological Repository to store low- and intermediate-level nuclear waste in Kincardine, Ontario, on the shore of Lake Huron.

“We had been thinking about making a video for some time,” said Beverly Fernandez, founder of Stop the Great Lakes Nuclear Dump. “With the decision coming up from the Trudeau government, we decided to go ahead with it.”

Catherine McKenna, the Canadian Minister of Environment and Climate Change, is scheduled to decide the fate of the dump on March 1.

The video has a dual purpose. “The first goal is to build awareness and opposition in Canada and the U.S. to the proposed dump,” said Fernandez, who lives in Southampton, a lakefront community just north of Kincardine. “Second is to get a flood of emails going to Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and Minister McKenna so they can see how large the opposition is to this.”

The prime minister’s email address isJustin.Trudeau@parl.gc.ca. McKenna’s address isCatherine.McKenna@parl.gc.ca.

Video urges officials to say ‘no’…….. “OPG did not consider any other sites. Some nuclear waste remains radioactive for 100,000 years. No scientist or geologist can guarantee that this nuclear waste dump will not leak and contaminate the Great Lakes. There are only three deep underground nuclear waste dumps on the planet,” the video says.

“The three sites are Asse II and Morsleben in Germany and the Western Isolation Pilot Plant in New Mexico,” Fernandez said as an aside in the interview.Published: Saturday, January 23, 20162

“They all leaked,” the video continues. “The protection of the Great Lakes from buried radioactive nuclear waste is responsible stewardship and is of national and international importance. Canadians, Americans and indigenous peoples have a right to clean, safe drinking water. It is imperative that a responsible solution for dealing with Ontario’s nuclear waste be found. Burying and abandoning radioactive nuclear waste right beside the drinking water of 40 million people is not the answer. The fate of Ontario’s nuclear waste burial plan is in the hands of Prime Minister Justin Trudeau.”

Trudeau was elected in October.”Environment and Climate Change Minister Catherine McKenna and the Federal Cabinet,” the video tells us, will make a decision on March 1, 2016.

“Would you bury poison beside your well? Email Prime Minister Trudeau, Minister McKenna and your Member of Parliament. Urge them to say no to Ontario’s planned nuclear waste dump … before it’s too late,” the video says.

The video can be found online at youtube.com/watch?v=_s6C4ClH17U&feature=youtu.be or the group’s website at stopthegreatlakesnucleardump.com. http://www.voicenews.com/articles/2016/01/23/news/doc56a252c2461a4623903048.txt?viewmode=3