Beyond Nuclear

One of the many powerful images coupled with moving quotes from petition signers posted at STGLND's Facebook pageThe group Stop the Great Lakes Nuclear Dump (STGLND) has been doing great work in opposition to Ontario Power Generation's proposed radioactive waste dump on the Great Lakes shoreline for years. Now they are pushing hard for their petition to top 90,000 signatures. They are quite close, just over 300 signatures shy. STGLND's spokesperson, Beverly Fernandez, just sent me this alert, below, a couple days ago.

If you have not already done so, please sign STGLND's petition at http://www.gopetition.com/petitions/stopthegreatlakesnucleardump.html.

And check out their current Facebook posts. Once at STGLND's Facebook post, you can scroll through a series of powerful images, coupled with moving passages quoted from petition signers, about the importance of stopping the Great Lakes nuclear dump. See an example above.

You can also check out STGLND's informative website, full of good news about their incredible work, including their map, showing the latest count of resolutions against the dump: 182 resolutions as of Nov. 23rd, representing Great Lakes municipalities alone where nearly 23 million people live!

And, as Beverly Fernandez at STGLND has urged, please do share this petition action alert like crazy! Thanks!

Update on January 14, 2016 by

admin

The STGLND petition DID top 90,000 signatures on Jan. 13th! Thank you so much to Beyond Nuclear supporters, and everyone else who has signed on, for making this happen -- and so very quickly!

As Stop the Great Lakes Nuclear Dump has indicated on its Facebook page linked above, Jan. 18th will be the last day for signatures before they submit the petition to Canada's Environment Minister, Catherine McKenna.

So please still sign the petition if you haven't already, and spread the word to everyone you know!

If you'd like to take more action, additional to the petition, please consider these other great ideas by STGLND:

Print this poster, fill in the blanks, take a selfie, post of Facebook and Twitter and email to the Canadian federal Minister of the Environment and Climate Change at: <catherine.mckenna@parl.gc.ca>.

And get your village, town, city, county, and state (or province) to pass a resolution opposing OPG's DGR (Deep Geologic Repository), if they haven't already. See STGLND's website for the latest map, showing 182 municipalities, representing nearly 23 million people, that have already passed such resolutions. You can use as a model the resolution passed by Chicago -- the largest city on the Great Lakes -- a year ago.