We, residents of SBP, will NOT be bought off. Let’s see the NWMO board, C-gentlemen, and any owners/presidents of the company all move themselves and their families locally. Let’s see a show of faith. Put down roots and a 30 year mortgage. Otherwise if they are not willing to put down roots to show their commitment along with SBP residents and their generations to come, this might just be a case of rich NIMBYs putting this as far from their Toronto Condo’s and mansions as possible, while still being in helicopter flight distance. NWMO is funding SBP programs…what about every other municipality, town, township, and/or city that also lines and/or draws their water from the Great Lakes Regions? Speaking of, has NWMO consulted the First Nations peoples of the SBP and Great Lakes Region? Is this not their home too? They seem to be the only people who are willing and able to look beyond next quarters profit margins and into the next generation’s best interests. Nuclear waste storage isn’t just an issue if the local/closest town/community, it’s an issue of almost the entire region. Province even. Especially when a storage site is being considered anywhere within 200km of a large body of water, let alone one of the Great Lakes that not just one, but two countries and the millions of citizens within rely on. Open up a site anywhere above the arctic circle, deeper than 0.5km, and eat the cost of transport. Let’s have a better safety factor than “zero-point-good-enough”, how about that? Let’s open a dump site around the Muskokas to the east even. Let them have a referendum there. We’ll see how quickly the affluent lakefront mansion Muskokites chase that idea outta there with just a few phone calls from a few powerful folks. I bet O’Leary and his property there would definitely come down with a bad case of the NIMBYs were Muskoka to be in serious contention. Any nuclear waste management site shouldn’t be within a 500km of a large population centre or a Great Lake, let alone in an area of the province that houses 50% of the entire Canadian Population. For good measure. Like I said prior, let’s have a better safety factor than “zero-point-good-enough” and a 50 year warranty.
