Dear Editor:
May is Speech and Hearing Awareness Month.
Seeing the ear on the willing to listen website as their logo, was a shock to me. Having a teenager that is deaf and hard of hearing, and the perception that people have of the elderly, adults, young adults, and children who cannot hear normally, puts using this logo in poor taste and judgement.
The phrase, willing to listen, means nothing to me. Who are you only willing to listen to for your information? Are you actually willing to listen to information presented by those not working in the nuclear industry?
Also the statement – be kind to each other; it isn’t kind when the portrayed logo is improperly used. I don’t feel welcome in this community because I am outsider, born in Europe.
Our community is split in half and this is not the community’s fault but our municipality of South Bruce council and Mayor. It seems they are only thinking about the money and not about the health of people and our environment.
It seems that they are only willing to listen to select information too. The NWMO had 22 communities that expressed interest in learning more about Canada’s plan. The Municipality of South Bruce in southern Ontario and the Township of Ignace, in northwestern Ontario, are the only ones remaining. Why?
Teeswater is a small community with two elementary schools. We have some good agriculture land in the area that should stay as farm land.
These are high-level Nuclear waste fuel bundles that you want to bury under the ground, near the Teeswater River, where so many people get their drinking water. This deep geological repository has not been done anywhere in the world. We should not be treated like guinea pigs.
Elizabeth Groenewegen,
Teeswater