Number
141763
Version
SUBSTITUTE 1
Reference
Sponsor
ALD. KOVAC AND MURPHY
Title
Substitute resolution expressing the City of Milwaukee’s opposition to Ontario Power Generation’s proposed location of a deep geological nuclear waste repository at the Bruce Nuclear Generating Station or any nuclear waste repository within the Great Lakes Basin.
Analysis
This resolution expresses the City of Milwaukee’s opposition to Ontario Power Generation’s proposed location of a deep geological nuclear waste repository at the Bruce Nuclear Generating Station or any nuclear waste repository within the Great Lakes Basin.
Body
Whereas, Ontario Power Generation is proposing to construct an underground long-term burial facility for all of Ontario’s low- and intermediate-level radioactive nuclear waste at the Bruce Nuclear Generating Station, some of which is highly radioactive and will remain toxic for over 100,000 years; and
Whereas, The proposed site is located at the Bruce Nuclear Generating Station, less than one mile from the eastern shore of Lake Huron; and
Whereas, Lake Michigan and Lake Huron are interconnected and considered a single lake from a hydrological perspective because their waters move in either direction; and
Whereas, The creation of a permanent nuclear waste storage facility so close to one of the Great Lakes is a matter of great concern to the region’s states and provinces; and
Whereas, Millions of United States and Canadian citizens rely on the lakes as a source of drinking water, tourism, recreation, and as a key industrial asset; and
Whereas, A leak of radioactive waste would have a catastrophic effect on the ecological balance of the Great Lakes and could affect Lake Michigan’s waters, the source of drinking water for Milwaukee residents; and
Whereas, Under the 2012 Protocol Amending the Agreement Between Canada and the United States of America on Great Lakes Water Quality, the governments of Canada and the United States acknowledge the ...
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