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Canadian utility formally drops underground radioactive waste storage next to Lake Huron via Detroit Free Press

Posted on 2020/06/29 by nfield

Keith Matheny, An Ontario nuclear power generating company has officially dropped its pursuit of a deep underground storage facility for low- to intermediate-level radioactive waste within a half-mile of Lake Huron. […] With that, OPG’s more than 16-year pursuit of … Continue reading →

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Saugeen Ojibway Nation vote ends company’s plans to store nuclear waste near Lake Huron via Times Herald

Posted on 2020/02/04 by yukimiyamotodepaul

Jeremy Ervin An Ontario power company has announced it will no longer consider storing nuclear waste underground near Lake Huron.  The decision came following years of Michigan lawmakers asking Ontario Power Generation to reconsider. It took the vote of the Saugeen Ojibway … Continue reading →

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Stop the Great Lakes Nuclear Dump

Posted on 2016/01/15 by norma field
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Panel approves underground nuclear waste facility near Lake Huron via Macomb Daily

Posted on 2015/07/09 by yukimiyamotodepaul

Shortly before midnight, Wednesday, Canada’s Minister of Environment informed many on both sides of the international border what many did not want to hear: A Joint Review Panel has endorsed Ontario Power Generation’s (OPG) plan to bury radioactive nuclear waste … Continue reading →

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Canada opens comment period on nuclear dump proposed for Lake Huron via The Voice

Posted on 2015/06/14 by yukimiyamotodepaul

A month after the Joint Review Panel decided that the best place for a Canadian nuclear waste dump is less than a mile from the shores of Lake Huron, the Canadian Environmental Assessment Agency is calling for public comment on … Continue reading →

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Nuclear Hope: A Documentary About the Deepest and Darkest Places on Earth via Nuclear Hope

Posted on 2015/05/22 by yukimiyamotodepaul

What will Canada do with its enormous stockpile of deadly radioactive waste? Currently, many small communities throughout Ontario are considering burying it underneath their boarders and close to Lake Huron and Lake Superior. When local residents learn about this plan, … Continue reading →

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Controversial Ontario nuclear waste plan approved via WBFO

Posted on 2015/05/19 by norma field

A Canadian government review panel has approved a plan from the Ontario electricity utility to store nuclear waste deep underground near the Great Lakes. Critics are angry over the decision. The environmental assessment concluded that burying the hazardous nuclear material … Continue reading →

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Nuclear option: US critics balk at Canadian plan to bury radioactive waste near Lake Huron via Fox News

Posted on 2015/05/08 by norma field

Cristina Corbin A Canadian power company’s plan to bury nuclear waste 150 miles from Detroit and less than a mile from Lake Huron has Americans fearful the Great Lakes – and some 40 million people who get their drinking water … Continue reading →

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Canada Approves Nuclear Waste Site on Great Lakes Shore via Sputniknews

Posted on 2015/05/08 by yukimiyamotodepaul

A Canadian advisory panel on Wednesday approved a plan to bury nuclear waste at a site just steps away from Lake Huron, saying it had concluded the project would pose no danger to the environment. The Joint Review Panel made … Continue reading →

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Kincardine nuclear waste site gets federal seal of approval via The Star.com

Posted on 2015/05/07 by yukimiyamotodepaul

Deep Geologic Repository proposed by Ontario Power Generation at its Bruce site is “not likely to cause significant adverse environmental effects,” report concludes. A federal panel has given an overall seal of approval to the controversial nuclear waste disposal site … Continue reading →

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