Huron-Kinloss council

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Huron-Kinloss council is not pleased that an agency it belongs to has taken a stance against Bruce Power's plan to ship 16 used steam generators along the Great Lakes for recycling in Sweden.

At the council meeting Monday night (Sept. 20), mayor Mitch Twolan noted that the Great Lakes and St. Lawrence Cities Initiative's executive director, David Ullrich, will be making a verbal submission at the hearings in Ottawa, against the proposal by Bruce Power.

Meanwhile, Huron-Kinloss has sent a letter of support for the proposal.

Twolan said the Great Lakes Initiative had no dialogue with Bruce County warden Mike Smith or any of the municipalities along the lakeshore.

"We should have had some discussion on this but there was none," said Twolan. "They just decided this on their own. We should have some say on what's going on with this group since we're part of it."

He expects Smith and the mayors of the lakeshore communities will want to meet with the Great Lakes Initiative and discuss this.

"It seems okay for us to have our say about wind turbines but we can contribute nothing about nuclear?" he asked.

Councillor Anne Eadie said the problem is that a lot of people don't understand what low- and intermediate-level nuclear waste is. The used steam generators fall into this category, she said, and it's good to be able to recycle 90 per cent of that waste.

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Wednesday, September 22, 2010