PORT HOPE COMMUNITY HEALTH CONCERNS COMMITTEE

The residents of Port Hope, Ontario have been living with a variety of radioactive and other toxic contaminants in their immediate environment since the 1930’s. As a result, the volunteer Port Hope Community Health Concerns Committee (PHCHCC) was formed in 1994 as an incorporated non-profit organization of current and former residents concerned about health issues relating to the potential health and environmental impacts of the contaminants from two nuclear industries operating in our community as well as the presence of 1.9 million m3 radioactive and heavy metal wastes in more than 1300 locations within the town. Currently there is a $2.6 billion federal remediation underway of the contaminated public and private properties and newly announced provincial plans for the largest nuclear plant in the world to be located in Port Hope’s rural community on the shores of Lake Ontario.