Last chance to comment on Huron nuclear waste facility

Source: Detroit Free Press

Michigan residents have another opportunity — perhaps a last chance — to comment on a Canadian proposal to build a deep underground storage facility for radioactive waste within one mile of Lake Huron.

Canada's Environmental Assessment Agency on Wednesday opened a 90-day public comment period for input on the Deep Geologic Repository, utility giant Ontario Power Generation's controversial proposed facility to store below ground nearly 37,000 square feet of low- and intermediate-level radioactive waste from the province's 20 nuclear reactors, near the Bruce nuclear facility in Kincardine.

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The repository has been almost universally blasted by Michigan residents and state and U.S. lawmakers, for its potential — however slight — to contaminate the Great Lakes, upon which 26 million Americans rely for drinking water. More than 1.5 million jobs are also directly connected to the Great Lakes, generating $62 billion in wages.

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Written comments can be sent by email to: ceaa.conditions.acee@ceaa-acee.qc.ca, or by mail to: Canadian Environmental Assessment Agency, 22nd Floor, 160 Elgin St., Ottawa, ON K1A0H3



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