Quick things you can do to help stop Canada's Great Lakes shore radioactive waste dump!

The targeted site for OPG's DGR, less than a mile from the Lake Huron shore!Dear Friends and Colleagues,

Please do one or more of the following ASAP, to help block Ontario Power Generation's (OPG) proposed Deep Geologic Repository (DGR) for burial of radioactive waste less than a mile from the Great Lakes shoreline at Bruce Nuclear Generating Station in Kincardine, Ontario, directly across Lake Huron from the Tip of Michigan's Thumb (note, the first two action items below have a deadline of 11:59pm Eastern time on Tuesday, September 1st):

1. Email the Canadian Environmental Assessment Agency at ceaa.conditions.acee@ceaa-acee.gc.ca, by 11:59pm Eastern time on Tuesday, September 1st, expressing your "unconditional opposition" to OPG's DGR (include "CEAA Reference No. 17520" so your comments can be routed to the correct docket).

2. Per Stop the Great Lakes Nuclear Dump, print this poster, fill in the blanks, take a selfie, post it on Facebook and Twitter, and email it to Canadian federal Environment Minister Leona Aglukkaq at Leona.Aglukkaq@parl.gc.ca by the Sept. 1 deadline.

3. If you haven't already, sign the Stop the Great Lakes Nuclear Dump petition. Even if you have signed it, spread the word, and urge everyone you know to also sign it.

4. If you haven't already, sign the Sum of Us petition. Again, even if you have signed it, spread the word, and urge everyone you know to also sign it.

5. Contact your two U.S. Senators, and your U.S. Representative (get patched through to their offices via the U.S. Capitol Switchboard at 202-224-3121), and urge them to co-sponsor the bipartisan U.S. Senate (S.Res. 134) and House (H.Res. 194) resolutions opposing the DGR; if they already have done so, thank them; if they have not, urge them to ASAP. Likewise, urge them to co-sponsor U.S. Senate and House legislation, the "Stop Nuclear Waste by Our Lakes Act," to be introduced by U.S. Sens. Stabenow and Peters, and U.S. Rep. Kildee (Democrats from Michigan), once Congress returns to session on Sept. 8. The "Stop Nuclear Waste by Our Lakes Act" will invoke the 1909 Boundary Waters Treaty, and mandate the U.S.-Canadian International Joint Commission (IJC) to undertake a comprehensive review of the DGR proposal.

6. Contact the White House, and urge President Obama to instruct Secretary of State Kerry to activate the IJC to undertake a comprehensive review of the DGR proposal.

If you have already done each of these action steps, THANK YOU! Please consider contacting your Members of Congress and the White House again, and urge everyone you know to take these actions as well! (Feel free to just forward this email.) Together, we must do all we can to stop OPG's DGR, and protect the Great Lakes -- drinking water supply for 40 million people in 8 U.S. states, 2 Canadian provinces, and a large number of Native American First Nations; more than 20% of the world's, and around 85% of North America's, surface fresh water; and the lifeblood of one of the world's single largest regional economies.

---Kevin Kamps, Radioactive Waste Watchdog, Beyond Nuclear (and board member, Don't Waste Michigan, representing the Kalamazoo chapter)

P.S. To learn more about the resistance to OPG's DGR, see Beyond Nuclear's Canada website section.

U.S. Rep. Kildee: "It's time to speak up about Canada's radioactive nuclear waste proposal"

U.S. Rep. Dan Kildee (D-MI)In an op-ed published in the Saginaw News, U.S. Representative Dan Kildee (Democrat from Flint Twp., MI) made one final push for Michiganders (and Michigeese, and Michigoslings) to submit public comments to the Canadian Environmental Assessment Agency, to express opposition to Ontario Power Generation's proposal to dump radioactive waste on the Great Lakes shore.

The deadline for public comment is 11:59pm Eastern on Tuesday, September 1st.

Anyone who would like to submit comments by mail should send them to: Canadian Environmental Assessment Agency; 22nd Floor, 160 Elgin Street, Ottawa ON K1A 0H3

Email comments can be submitted at: ceaa.conditions.acee@ceaa-acee.gc.ca

Kildee has led a resolution in the U.S. House that has garnered 22 co-sponsors thus far, evenly split between Republicans and Democrats. He has recently introduced legislation calling for the U.S.-Canada International Joint Commission to undertake a comprehensive review of the "Deep Geologic Repository" (DGR) proposal.

"Nuclear waste burial near Lake Huron opposed by Great Lakes Bay Alliance"

Heather Jordan has reported at MLive that the Great Lakes Bay Regional Alliance is encouraging all citizens and elected officials to submit comments by the Sept. 1st deadline to the Canadian Environmental Assessment Agency, to express opposition to the Ontario Power Generation Deep Geologic Repository proposed at Bruce Nuclear Generating Station on the Lake Huron shore in Kincardine, Ontario.

The Bay Alliance has expressed deep concern about the potential impact of the proposed dump on the life and livelihood of the entire region.

As reported:

"The Saginaw Bay Watershed is an extraordinarily important asset to the entire Great Lakes Bay Region," Great Lakes Bay Regional Alliance President and CEO Matthew Felan said in a statement. "The future vitality of the region's economy and our quality of life is in jeopardy from this irresponsible proposal."

..."We simply cannot put the Saginaw Bay Watershed at risk from any radioactive nuclear waste," Felan's statement continued. "The Great Lakes Bay Region benefits immeasurably from shipping, transportation, tourism, boating, beaches, clean and accessible fresh water. The list is endless."

Express unconditional opposition to Canada's proposed Great Lakes shoreline radioactive waste dump by Sept. 1 public comment deadline!

Canada's federal Environment Minister, Leona Aglukkaq, has provided one last round of public comment opportunity regarding Ontario Power Generation's (OPG) proposal to bury radioactive wastes on the Lake Huron shore at the Bruce Nuclear Generating Station in Kincardine, Ontario.

It is important to send your comments to the Federal Minister of the Environment Leona Aglukkaq by the Tuesday, September 1st deadline.

Express "unconditional opposition" to the DGR proposal (DGR is short for Deep Geologic Respository).

Be sure to include "Docket #17520" at the top of your comments, so that they can be directed to the proper place (OPG's DGR EA docket -- EA is short for Environmental Assessment).

You can email your comments to ceaa.conditions.acee@ceaa-acee.gc.ca.

You can snail mail your comments to: National Programs, Canadian Environmental Assessment Agency, 22nd Floor, 160 Elgin St., Ottawa ON K1A 0H3 (just be sure to get it postmarked by the Sept. 1st deadline).

And here is another way to express your opposition to this dump by the Sept. 1st deadline, an idea from our friends and colleagues at Stop the Great Lakes Nuclear Dump:

Download this poster. Print it. Fill in the blanks. Take a selfie. Post it on Facebook. Post it on Twitter. And email it to Environment Minister Leona Aglukkaq at: Leona.Aglukkaq@parl.gc.ca.

Al Jazeera America: "Nuclear waste site bid makes waves in Lake Huron"

Steve Friess has posted an article at Al Jazeera America after he visited the proposed site for Ontario Power Generation's Deep Geologic Repository (DGR) for radioactive waste burial, at Bruce Nuclear Generating Station on the Lake Huron shoreline.

The article reports that the Obama administration's Environmental Protection Agency and State Department have signed off on the proposed dump -- thus putting at risk tens of millions of Americans in eight states who depend on the Great Lakes for drinking water. No explanation is given for the Obama administration's dereliction of duty.

Dump opponents Beverly Fernandez from Stop the Great Lakes Nuclear Dump, and Marti McFadzean (an immediate neighbor to Bruce Nuclear, living in Inverhuron), are quoted in the article.