Thousands Say 'No' to Nuclear Waste Storage near Canada's Great Lakes

摘要

Thousands of people have pressed Ottawa to reject a proposal to store nuclear waste in an underground vault near the Great Lakes, fearing a spill will contaminate the source of drinking water for 40 million in Canada and the United States. A 6,000-page petition signed by 92,000 opponents of local utility Ontario Power Generation's (OPG) proposal to store waste in a deep limestone vault to be drilled beneath the world's largest operating nuclear power plant on the Bruce Peninsula, more than 200 km (125 miles) northwest of Toronto, was delivered to Environment Minister Catherine McKenna.