Northwestern Ont. environmental groups worried over nuclear waste knowledge in election
CBC
Two environmental groups in northwestern Ontario say they are concerned federal political leaders seem to know little about a proposal to bury nuclear waste in the region.
We the Nuclear Free North and Environment North said the issue of disposing of nuclear waste seems to be of little importance to the major party leaders, but is of great importance to this region.
The Nuclear Waste Management Organization (NWMO) is currently looking at building a nuclear waste repository between Ignace and Dryden Ont. The site is one of two that could be chosen, the other is in southern Ontario.
"It concerns me that they know very little about the nuclear waste issue, about the transportation issue," said Dodie LeGassick, who is the nuclear lead for Environment North and a member of We the Nuclear Free North.
"They are more concerned about this being, quotation marks, clean in terms of carbon emissions," she said, noting that the groups don't believe nuclear energy benefits the environment.
LeGassick said both the Conservative and Liberal parties have supported the development of small modular nuclear reactors, which she says that since those parties support development, she infers that as supporting the industry and the creation of nuclear waste.
She said the NDP did say local candidates would oppose the burial of the waste in the region.
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