1. Health
Since there are expected increases in particulates
in our air during cleanup, how will these risks be monitored, publicly
reported and minimized?
How have the abundances predicted been calculated?
Is there a public alert strategy for serious risks to air,
soil or water?
How will we know if the cleanup process has
adverse effects on people?
Why are all the people who have lived in contaminated properties not
being notified, and part of a health study with long-term health monitoring?
What follow-up monitoring will occur of the
people and environment?
Why hasnt Dr. Powers School had sub-slab testing for source
material and 24/7 radon monitoring since elevated radon was discovered
in and beneath the school 30 years ago?
Why is the nuclear risk allowed by the Federal
Government so much greater than that of the chemical risk?
Why does uranium take precedence over all other dangerous chemicals
in Port Hope?
Should home owners get a second opinion in regards
to the readings of their property?
How can they trust agencies that won't disclose all information in
the first place?
2.
Transportation
What are the proposed truck routes and why were they selected?
How many trucks per day will enter and leave
the dump site and what will be the hours of trucking?
Will there be portable stations to weigh and inspect the trucks?
How will spread of contamination via trucks
be managed?
3.
Re-survey and Clean-up Criteria
How many public and private properties are known now to be contaminated?
After cleanup is completed, how will the level
of uranium in Port Hopes soil and radon in homes compare with
the provincial averages?
How extensive is the re-survey of Ward 1 and what is the criteria
for determining the extent of investigation and for cleanup?
Why is there no similar survey of Ward 2 planned
since contamination has been found there?
Does the agreement with town council for the
Construction Monitoring Program adequately meet the needs of residents
who have marginally contaminated property and have to pay their own
cleanup?
Will these sites be included in the cleanup?
4.
Site Remediation
Will residents of the community be told of all locations to be
remediated and the schedules so they can make alternate plans?
What are the site containment strategies for
day, night and adverse weather conditions which could impact dust,
runoff, etc.?
Is there contingency plan in the event of accidents happening?
How will the noise be managed during cleanup?
What exactly will happen to a street that needs to be remediated?
How much will be excavated and over what period of time?
How will property owners be protected from contaminants
during remediation of their properties and those nearby?
Do property owners have to disclose information about contamination
to staff or visitors? If not, why not?
Can a property owner refuse a survey or remediation?
Will council and citizens have a say in how individual sites are cleanup
up?
5.
Storage Site
How can the proposed site accommodate the possible volume of wastes?
Will Port Hope be assured that all of the wastes
are cleaned up?
Will Port Hope be asked to take waste from other locations
in the future?
What monitoring will be done in the future?
6. Property Value Protection Program
Do all property owners know if they are on the current list of
clean up sites?
How many sites have currently been identified
in Ward 1 and Ward 2?
What circumstances are eligible for compensation?
How many payments have been made from this program
since it began and for what reasons?How many applications have
been denied and why?
Will this program pay for people to re-locate
temporarily during clean-up?
Will this program compensate businesses which are affected during
cleanup?
Questions for Town Council
Is
Council fighting for disclosure of contaminated sites, for community
health studies and for more compensation?
Is Council doing due diligence with zoning?
Does Council have full access to public property files and all data
collected?
Will the town and citizens have a say in how
sites will be remediated on a site by site basis?
Concerns
Expressed at the Public Meeting with the Low Level Radioactive Waste
Management Office in Order Recorded June 21, 2007
Containment: will there be real time monitoring for radon gas?
If the levels are too high how long will it
be before shut down?
What is the action plan if an accident happens?
Why cant property owners see everything
in their property file at the LLRWMO and make copies if they choose?
Why cant they have third parties view their files with
permission?
Why arent all the locations of contaminated
sites being made public?
Where are the un-licensed sites that CNSC has been exempting
from licenses since 2001?
Will we know all sites after the re-survey is
done?
Will there be any alerts to people who have health conditions to warn
them of increased dust and risk?
What other projects of equal size are being
modeled for Port Hopes cleanup?
Given the many years Eldorado and Cameco have worked with depleted
uranium has testing for uranium 236 in the soils and wastes been done?
Would it make a difference to the cleanup if
it is found?
If I live next door to a site being cleaned and I have concerns,
who do I call?
Is there a program to relocate people, temporarily
and/or permanently if they wish?
Will tourists be informed of the locations being remediated?
Why isnt there a municipal by-law governing
disclosure of information when properties are sold?
How is control over air particulate going to be managed?
If there is no health hazard, why is all this
money being spent to clean it up?
Would the federal government test the birds that live near
the Cameco stacks?
Why hasnt one cent been spent to monitor
peoples actual health?
How can potential harm really be predicted?
Why does the dirt on Roseglen Road have plastic
and weights on it?
Why hasnt Dr. Powers
Elementary School been remediated when the sub-slab bore hole results
were known in 1978 that showed radon beneath the kindergarten and
gym?
Why hasnt there been continuous
monitoring 24/7 since then to avert a
tragedy?
Why isnt there a survey planned for contamination in
Ward 2?