February 12, 2016
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The Honourable Catherine McKenna, P.C., M.P.
Minister of Environment and Climate Change
House of Commons
Ottawa, Ontario
Canada K1A 0A9
Email: Catherine.McKenna@parl.gc.ca
RE: Stop OPG's nuclear waste dump
Dear Minister McKenna:
Ontario Power Generation (OPG)'s proposal to build a nuclear waste dump on the shore of Lake Huron poses a serious threat to the supply of drinking water for 40-million Canadians and Americans over the next 100,000 years.
What claims to be a safe, science-based project using 'scientific computer models' flies in the face of reality. To date, every underground nuclear dump in the world has failed with disastrous consequences. It is one thing to build a nuclear waste dump in the desert in New Mexico using the latest technology, and quite another to build it less than one kilometre from the shore of Lake Huron, part of the largest freshwater basin in the world, providing clean safe drinking water to 40-million people.
If the New Mexico nuclear waste storage facility fails, as it did in 2014, the radioactive material primarily affects plant workers. If OPG's nuclear waste dump fails, instead of irradiating millions of grains of sand, it will leak radioactive material into the drinking water of 40-million people.
To think that mankind has the ability to contain this highly toxic material which will remain radioactive for more than 100,000 years, sets a new standard in hubris, one that makes the claim of the Titanic to be unsinkable, pale in comparison.
Nuclear experts in testimony at the so-called public hearings testified that it is not a question of 'if' but rather a question of 'when' the radioactive material will leak from the dump.
With 10-million square kilometres of territory in Canada, why would anyone risk burying nuclear waste on the shore of the largest body of fresh water in the world? Please end this folly.
Sincerely,
Joanne Martin
Inverhuron
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