Mary Gazze
Toronto — From Tuesday's Globe and MailPublished on Monday, Jul. 12, 2010 9:05PM EDT
A plan by an Ontario nuclear plant to transport radioactive waste on the Great Lakes is angering environmentalists and politicians, despite assurances the process is safe.
Bruce Power has applied for a licence to use the Great Lakes and the St. Lawrence River to ship 16 decommissioned steam generators from its plant on Lake Huron to Sweden for recycling.
Ruth Lovell Stanners, the mayor of Owen Sound, Ont., said she is concerned that an accident could happen even before the generators are on the water, while they are being transferred on land to her city's port, the intended departure point. She said Bruce Power told her the process is safe.
“My response to that was, ‘That's probably what was told to the people who lived in the Texas-Gulf area by British Petroleum.’ Nothing is 100 per cent safe,” she said. “If some of the steam generators would become dislodged, our water treatment plant is not far away.”
Bruce Power was to seek approval at a town council meeting Monday night for use of roads from Owen Sound. Ms. Lovell Stanners said council may decide then whether to approve or reject the request.
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