Dear Editor:
The yellow No Nuke Dump signs are up again after another attack of the chainsaw vandals. You will see signs with cuts or cracks in them. These cracks are now a symbol of the cracks and fractures in the disturbed sedimentary rock, where the Nuclear Waste Management Organization wants to bury all of Canada’s high-level nuclear waste. The cuts in the signs also stand for the deeply divided community.
NWMO’s plan is, dig it, fill it, abandon it and forget it. On several occasions, I asked the NWMO, can you absolutely guarantee that the nuke dump is safe? The answer is always no.
NWMO’s glossy brochures and generous handouts of money are being used by this propaganda machine to groom the public. If it was such a great plan, without risk, NWMO would not have to come with handouts of big money to entice residents. We might accept this proposed plan if all aspects of safety and community well-being were risk-free.
South Bruce has a potentially never-ending problem asking to be put within their borders; the most toxic waste of the planet to be buried in our municipality.
Council decisions could degrade our area to a nuclear waste dump zone; also subjecting the residents to become part of this risky science experiment. We live in a beautiful part of the world, with one of the best drinkable water sources in the world. Why take the risk? South Bruce council, can you only see the dollars offered to become Canada’s first nuclear waste experiment? How can you continue to ignore all the risk factors attached to this proposed nuclear waste dump?
We need clean water and clean food. We cannot eat or drink money to sustain life or a future in South Bruce.
Rita Groen,
South Bruce