GLIN==> Fw: / Hearing on transport of reactor waste on Great Lakes

From: enviro-mich-bounces at great-lakes.net [mailto:enviro-mich-bounces at great-lakes.net] On Behalf Of Kay Cumbow
Sent: Wednesday, September 29, 2010 9:14 AM
To: Enviro-Mich
Subject: EM:/ Hearing on transport of reactor waste on Great Lakes

 

You can listen to Day 2 of the Canadian Nuclear Safety Commission hearing on Bruce Power's proposed shipment of radioactive steam generators which is webcast live on: nuclearsafety.gc.ca The hearing begain at 8:30 a.m. and runs until 9 p.m. tonight. 

There are many articles online on the hearing. A few are cited below. - Kay Cumbow 

Nuclear shipping plan dangerous: environmentalists [CTV] 
http://www.ctv.ca/CTVNews/TopStories/20100928/bruce-power-hearing-100928/ 

Snip: " 'Our review of Bruce Power's and CNSC's documents have revealed that this hasty, ill-considered proposal has involved little to no planning whatsoever to deal with an emergency involving the sinking of this shipment, containing as it would over 1,400 tons of radioactive steam generators,' Terry Lodge, an attorney representing the environmental coalition, said in a statement." 

Nuclear shipments will have economic, ecological fallout: critics [Montreal Gazette] 
http://www.globalmontreal.com/Nuclear+shipments+will+have+economic+ecological+fallout+critics/3591365/story.html

Snip: "This is just the tip of an enormous iceberg, because once they ship these 16 steam generators they're going to be shipping more and more and more radioactive waste," [said] Gordon Edwards, president of the Montreal-based Canadian Coalition for Nuclear Responsibility..."





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