Protect Our Waterways - No Nuclear Dump
POW-NNW represents the people in South Bruce who believe that the Nuclear Waste Management Organization’s (NWMO) plan to bury over 58,000 tonnes of high-level nuclear waste is untested, unsustainable, and – based on independent research – unwanted in our community.
We are not anti-nuclear. The nuclear industry provides many of our residents with well-paying jobs and is a positive contributor to our local economy. However, South Bruce has already done its part for the industry. Just because the NWMO likes our geology doesn’t mean our community wants to store its nuclear waste underneath our geography.
POW-NNW is committed to providing the residents of South Bruce all the facts about the NWMO’s plan.
The NWMO’s Deep Ground Repository (DGR) plan, contrary to its claims, is not a best practice in the industry. The definition of “best practice” as in the dictionary is: a procedure that has been shown by research and experience to produce optimal results and that is established or proposed as a standard suitable for widespread adoption. Yet, no one has ever designed, built, and operated a DGR for high-level nuclear waste, anywhere in the world. (One site has been confirmed, near an existing nuclear power plant in Finland and won’t be in operation for decades). The NWMO’s DGR is not a best practice project. It is a centuries-long science experiment. The community that agrees to host this is also, by default, agreeing to become its guinea pigs (for generations to come.
That’s why a binding referendum is the only way to determine whether or not the people of South Bruce truly wish to be the final location for all of Canada’s nuclear waste.
Say NO to the NWMO!
Residents of South Bruce cannot trust the NWMO (Nuclear Waste Management Organization) to protect their future.
- The mission of the NWMO is to serve the needs of the nuclear power industry and find a place to permanently abandon all of Canada’s nuclear waste.
- The NWMO is committed to locating the world’s first-ever permanent landfill site for irradiated fuel bundles in either South Bruce or Ignace Ontario. This so-called ‘deep geological repository’ – in actuality a high-tech landfill site - is an experiment. Similar underground sites in Germany and the US for lower-level categories of nuclear waste have leaked radioactive material and required multi-billion-dollar clean-ups.
- There are no studies to support NWMOs claim that the proposed nuclear waste dump will provide meaningful long term economic benefits
The NWMO has no ‘Plan B’. It is committed to putting all of Canada’s radioactive nuclear ‘eggs’ in the South Bruce or Ignace basket.
It plans to build a deep mine, fill it with nuclear waste, and then leave town. Generations of South Bruce or Ignace residents will then be forced to live forever above radioactive waste which will remain hazardous for more than 100,000 years.
Join with Protect Our Waterways and
Say NO to the NWMO!
