LAKE HURON NUKE DUMP: Property Values, Other Economic Effects

Lake Huron's shorelineLast year, Ontario Power Generation (OPG) officially cancelled its plans to build a "Deep Geologic Repository" (DGR) for 20 provincial reactors' so-called "low" and "intermediate" level radioactive wastes, less than a mile from Lake Huron (photo, left), at the Bruce Nuclear Generating Station in Kincardine. This came after a two-decade struggle, culminating with the Saugeen Ojibwe Nation's veto, an 86% to 14% tribal referendum opposed. However, the Nuclear Waste Management Organization (NWMO), dominated by OPG, is now targeting South Bruce, Ontario, just 25 miles inland, for a national Canadian high-level rad. waste dump. Northwatch and Protect Our Waterways invited Beyond Nuclear to present on radioactive stigma impacts on property values and other economic sectors, as local resistance mounts.

See the recording of the one and a half hour Zoom event, here.

A QUIET HERO OF OUR TIME: COVID takes life of young Russian anti-nuker

Photo of Rashid Alimov, taken from his own Facebook Page.Rashid Alimov, a 40-year old Greenpeace Russia campaigner and journalist, has died due to covid-19, shocking and saddening the Russian anti-nuclear movement and colleagues across the world.

Alimov had faced arrests and harassment while protesting in St. Petersburg and against nuclear waste transports from Germany, and was an inveterate champion for the victims of the Mayak disaster. When authorities planned to fuel floating reactors at a port close to the 5 million living in St. Petersburg, it was Alimov’s efforts that got the operation moved to Murmansk. “It’s not often that an entire Russian region owes a debt of gratitude to a single reporter, but in Rashid’s case, it’s true”, wrote Bellona’s Charles Digges in a tribute.

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Canadian utility formally drops underground radioactive waste storage next to Lake Huron

As reported by the Detroit Free Press

Ontario Power Generation formally ends effort to place nuclear waste storage site near Lake Huron

Michigan Radio - Ontario Power Generation formally ends effort to place nuclear waste storage site near Lake Huron - By Ben Thorp

New nuclear power plant planned for Suffolk coast would be devastating for wildlife

Updated - Wednesday, May 27, 2020

• Independent - New nuclear power plant planned for Suffolk coast would be devastating for wildlife - Chris Baynes

As posted at the State of Nevada Agency for Nuclear Projects' "What's News" website page.