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Rapport triennal d’évaluation des progrès - Annexe présentant un résumé des commentaires du public

28 Nov 2017

I think that’s something that we should move up to the forefront to address and whether we have to look at the constitutional obligations of the Canadian government to consult which is in the relationship with the US, I think it is time for the IJC to recognize that, and be the first, to truly put it forward. [...] The burial of this radioactive waste could result in the continuous risk of radiotoxic poisoning of Lake Huron, the whole of the Great Lakes and the St. [...] International experts have consistently derided the science and lack of common sense of a DGR on the Great Lakes, saying that it will not be able to contain radioactive nuclear waste or prevent the contamination of the ecosystem including the lakes and the people around it. [...] Thousands of pages of testimony were read into the record by Canadian and American citizens and politicians as well as nuclear scientists, indigenous peoples and doctors that refuted the logic and safety of the proposal for the dump on the shore of Lake Huron at the 2013-2014 environmental hearings. [...] The inventory of radionuclides in the Great Lakes report concluded that radionuclides were present in the Great Lakes and that the majority of the radionuclides were from anthropogenic sources.

Authors

Hamstra, Sheila

Pages
285
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Canada