By Mary Drier
Staff Writer
SEBEWAING — Ever since Canada announced plans for a nuclear dump site near Lake Huron there has been concern and efforts underway to halt the project.
There will be a special town-hall meeting in Huron County regarding Canadian officials’ proposal to bury 7 million cubic feet of radioactive waste less than a mile from the shore of Lake Huron, directly across the lake from residents of the Bay and Thumb.
The meeting will be 6:30 to 8 p.m., Monday, Sept. 22, at the Sebewaing Township Hall, 14 East Sharpsteen St., Sebewaing.
State Sens. Mike Green, (R-Mayville), and Phil Pavlov, (R-St. Clair Township), will be hosting the meeting, and they are also leading an effort in Lansing to halt construction of the dump.
Their legislation has passed the Michigan Senate unanimously and awaits action in the House of Representatives. More than 60 communities throughout the region have recently passed resolutions in support of the measures. Both Tuscola County and Huron County commissioners have passed such resolutions as well as several townships.
The concern is Canadian officials’ plan to build a nuclear waste facility near the U.S. Border – less than a mile from Lake Huron. The Great Lakes are one of the world’s largest sources of fresh water. Ontario Power Generation plans to burrow about 2,200 feet underground near Kincardine, in Ontario to build a nuclear waste storage facility.
While most of the disposed nuclear waste would be low-level waste, it could also handle intermediate level nuclear waste that is closure to nuclear core. Ontario has 20 nuclear reactions.
For more information, contact Green’s office at 1-517-373-1777.