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Waterkeeper questions CNSC decision to exclude public presentations from Port Hope waste hearing.  Please see the article here.

The Auditor General of Canada has issued a report on the AECL and cleanup sites in Canada.  Please follow the link here.

Be sure to check out our Latest News section for further reading:  "Canada's Four Most Expensive Contaminated Sites."

 
PORT HOPE COMMUNITY HEALTH CONCERNS COMMITTEE PDF Print E-mail

 

Approximately 3.5 million cubic metres of radioactive and heavy metal waste remains within the boundaries of the Municipality of Port Hope at numerous sites, awaiting proper long-term storage...To date, however, there has been no funding available to the community of Port Hope for comprehensive independent health studies despite the $260,000,000 to be spent by the Federal Government to manage this low level waste and develop long term storage options.

 

 


"Port Hope has been called upon
to make itself the national sacrifice
zone for Canada."

Robert Kennedy Jr.
June 27,2004

 


 

"Listen to the warnings coming from scientific communities and
then act."

David Suzuki
(in Port Hope)

April 11, 2005

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