Join opposition to shipping nuclear generators
The groups who testified and submitted written statements to stop the shipment of radioactive, scrapped generators from Bruce Power nuclear generating station across Lake Huron, Lake Erie, Lake Ontario and the St. Lawrence River need our help right away if it is to be stopped.
When Great Lakes United was trying to prevent water diversion, they enlisted the help of the eight governors of Illinois, Indiana, Michigan, Minnesota, New York, Ohio, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin — the eight states surrounding the Great Lakes and St. Lawrence River — urging them to work with the two Canadian premiers from Ontario and Quebec (who are now Ontario Premier Dalton McGuinty and Quebec Premier Jean Charest), which did lead to a pact between them.
It will take everyone becoming involved to stop it. Please join me in writing to Gov. David A. Paterson to express your concerns.
My concerns go beyond the shipping of radioactive material anywhere but also the recycling of it into products we use every day. I wonder how that could be affecting people's health. This is nothing new because our government has known for at least 30 years that 40 percent of the steel imported into our country is radioactive.
We are so close to Ottawa, Canada's capital, but please don't waste your time contacting Prime Minister Stephen Harper. Did you hear he spent a billion dollars of taxpayers' money for a two-day get-together of the G-8 and G-20 world leaders on silly things like an artificial lake and other nonsense, while Canada's native people on reservations have such serious health problems and don't even have clean, palatable water to drink?
The G-20 will be meeting twice more before the end of November. I think one of the countries is South Korea. I'd seriously like to know what they are accomplishing besides giving each other the best of everything, flying around in their palaces in the sky, while the people in the countries where they meet don't seem to be gaining anything.
Barbara Seguin Doe
Waddington
