More Debate Over Nuclear Storage Issue

More Debate Over Nuclear Storage Issue

Monday, July 18, 2011 at 16:28

 

 

A Northern woman says she’s not impressed with some recent assurances from the Nuclear Waste Management Organization.

 

Last week a spokesman for the NWMO said it would be 7 to 10 years before any decisions are made about where a repository to store nuclear waste might go.

 

However Debbie Morin, an assistant secretary for the Committee For Future Generations, says that doesn’t tell the whole story.

 

She says the NWMO has, in just a few years time, already begun to insert itself into the business infrastructure of some northern communities:

 

“If anything to us that’s a red flag.  What has already happened in the few years that NWMO has been in the north is they’re working their way slowly into the business infrastructure in the communities. “

 

She says a million dollar payout to the FSIN is just one example of this.

 

Morin says three hundred people have already signed a petition against the idea and she wants the NWMO to realize a large number of residents don’t want nuclear waste anywhere near their community.

 

She hopes the NWMO will attend a community forum in Pinehouse on July 26th.