Nuclear Waste Transportation and Northern Ontario

We are almost ready to go to print!

In December we reached out to friends and fellow residents concerned about the possibility of highly radioactive nuclear waste being transported through Northeastern Ontario and buried in Northwestern Ontario, asking for support to get a postcard out to residents along the transportation routes through northern Ontario.  

We are  almost there! Thanks  to generous donors, we are more than half way to our first  target! We've raised enough for printing already, and other $1,800 and  we  will have the funds to cover the balance still need to complete payment for delivery of the postcards to the first 50,000 households. 

Please help us out, and help spread the word. 

Background

 

Radioactive wastes are currently stockpiled at nuclear reactors sites in Southern Ontario and Eastern Canada. We are asking for help to get the word out about the Nuclear Waste Management Organization’s risky plan to construct a deep geological repository for all of Canada’s high-level radioactive waste and their investigation of a site between Ignace and Dryden as a possible burial location.

 

Residents along the transportation route deserve to know what could be coming their way: current estimates are 45 years of 2-3 trucks per day hauling radioactive waste along our highways, through our communities, crossing our rivers and following our shorelines.

 

The risk of accidents is real, and these nuclear waste transports also bring the risks of radioactive exposure even without accidents, including from gamma radiation that passes through the containers. If and when trucks are delayed the exposure time is lengthened. During delays due to cold weather, weather, fires, road closures, accidents, or road construction you do NOT want to be behind or beside a truck hauling radioactive waste.

 

As residents of Northern Ontario we have a right to know. And we should have a right to say “No”. But residents along the transportation routes will have no say in whether the wastes come to Northern Ontario, at least according to the NWMO’s approach to determining that a community is “willing” to become host to all of Canada’s stockpiled and future high-level radioactive waste.

 

Our fundraising goal is $12,000. It’s a lot, but we have a plan to get started with the postcard distribution when we reach the half-way mark, and then just keep expanding our distribution as more financial help arrives. We can do a lot with a little money because we are a group of dedicated volunteers, but we need your help to raise the funds to pay the hard costs for this next postcard campaign.