To the editor,
I read with great interest a recent letter in your paper (‘Is there a problem?’ – Aug. 25) questioning why the Nuclear Waste Management Organization (NWMO) is extending their timeline on the deep geological repositoy (DGR) site selection process. The change in their time line came after the NAN Chiefs came out with a unanimous decision against the repository in NAN territory (“NWMO extends timeline for site selection on heels of strong ‘no’ from Nishnawbe Aski Nation” – Aug. 18). The NWMO has been throwing provincial, federal, OPG and the nuclear industry’s money away in every community that will accept it. The community of Dryden got $980,000 for educational promotion of nuclear waste, the community of Ignace has received millions along with the Wabigoon Lake First Nation.
This makes me wonder how much of the billion dollars these people have is going into their own pockets; they obviously have followed the science of climate change being they are involved in science, the changes that we have seen and are going to see with flooding and changing weather patterns, to put this repository in an area that drains into the Atlantic or Arctic watershed makes no sense. I have attended their travelling road show and they have no answers to any questions I had, so for sure their research is not world class. As a matter of fact, when questioned about the container they plan to use and the ones the Swedish agency are going to use, they said the industry hasn’t got a standard and the NWMO said Sweden is using over kill on their containers.
I have never heard of overkill in safety.
The other question I had was about transportation. It doesn’t matter where we live along Highway 17, the roads are inferior; there are accidents every single day along this highway. No person gets into a vehicle and plans an accident – it happens and they have plans to haul this waste if not to South Bruce it will be 1,300 km to Ignace.
The billion dollars they got they should have spent on the highwway and leave the waste where it is.
If you don’t agree with the waste being buried in Ontario, call your MP, MPP and your local council and express your option.
Wesley Webb
Dryden
