Local News - About 98 per cent of Port Hope residents want a full-panel review to be called for Cameco's slightly enriched uranium blending proposal - at least according to surveys returned to Port Hope Nuclear Environmental Watchdogs.

About 500 surveys - 430 of which were filled out and returned during Dr. David Suzuki's presentation at Port Hope High School April 4 - have been tabulated by the watchdogs, organization chair Chris Conti said.

About 98 per cent of the people also claimed to want to take back Port Hope's waterfront, he said.

"We're just about to send them off to the federal Minister of Environment," Mr. Conti said May 6.

The organization has to make photocopies of each survey before that can be done, he said.

Mr. Conti said he was not surprised by the survey results - citing many of the people who filled them out at the Dr. Suzuki presentation are the type of people who are concerned about the issue.

Approximately $3,800 in donations was made to the nuclear watchdogs during the night April 4,  
Mr. Conti said.

"A good chunk of that money is going to the Port Hope Community Health Concerns Committee," Mr. Conti said.

The committee, headed by Port Hope resident Faye More, is attempting to raise more than $25,000 to have health tests conducted on residents by the Uranium Medical Research Centre.

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