The Great Lakes comprise 20% of the world's surface fresh water, and the drinking water supply for 40 million people in 8 U.S. states, 2 Canadian provinces, and a large number of Native American/First NationsThe St. Clair County Community College Green Team and Blue Water Sierra Club are proud to present:
Brennain Lloyd and John Jackson speaking on:
Deep Trouble - Nuclear Waste Burial in the Great Lakes Basin
Sunday, September 30, 2012, 6:30 p.m. - 8:30 p.m. - Room 150, MTEC Building, St. Clair County Community College, 735 Erie St, Port Huron, MI 48060, USA
The MTEC Building is on the corner of Glenwood Ave and Erie Street.
The parking lot entrance is off of Glenwood Ave.
Room 150 is on the 1st floor right off the main lobby.
The nuclear industry in Canada is currently pursuing approval of their plan to bury 200,000 cubic meters of radioactive waste below the Bruce Nuclear Generating Station on the eastern shore of Lake Huron, and is studying 21 different communities - 15 of them in the Great Lakes basin - as possible burial locations for all of Canada's high level nuclear fuel waste.
The presentation will include descriptions of the burial schemes, the hazards and risks for the Great Lakes community, and possible transportation risks, and linkages to U.S. nuclear waste issues.
A participatory discussion will follow.
We are all stakeholders in the long-term protection and conservation of these fresh water seas. You are invited to come hear Brennain Lloyd and John Jackson speak on this important issue.
For more information, please contact:
Kay Cumbow, Blue Water Sierra Club at 810-346-4513 or <kcumbow@greatlakes.net>
The Green Team at St. Clair Community College is a group of faculty, staff, students and community members focused on three key areas: Energy conservation, Green education and Recycling.
Blue Water Sierra Club is part of the SE Michigan Group of the Michigan Chapter of Sierra Club.
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Our speakers:
John Jackson is Interim Executive Director and Director, Clean Production and Toxics, Great Lakes United. He has worked on industrial hazardous waste, radioactive waste, and municipal waste management issues for the past 35 years, with a special focus on waste siting issues. He has also taught waste management at Trent University for the past 13 years.
Great Lakes United www.glu.org/ is a coalition of citizens' groups representing Canada, the United States, First Nations and Indigenous Peoples in the Great Lakes / St. Lawrence River System.
Brennain Lloyd is Project Coordinator and community organizer with Northwatch.
Northwatch www.northwatch.org/ is a coalition of environmental and social justice groups in northeastern Ontario.
Directions to the MTEC building and parking can be found at:
http://www.sc4.edu/maps
Free and open to the public