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ON JUNE 10TH STAND UP FOR A NUCLEAR FREE ATIKOKAN!
Deputation to Council at 4:30 pm Public meeting at 7 pm 
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On May 13th the Atikokan Municipal Council debated a resolution that would have expressed SUPPORT for the Nuclear Waste Management Organization's proposal to transport, bury and then abandon all of Canada's high-level nuclear waste in a site between Ignace and Dryden, 100 km northwest of Atikokan and expressed SUPPORT for "the potential for a SMR at the Atikokan Generating Station".
Read the staff report and draft resolution HERE and watch the committee meeting HERE. Council did NOT pass this resolution, but it may return to Council at a later date, in an altered form. Some Councillors spoke about the importance of hearing from the people of Atikokan before considering such a resolution. You can find information about how to contact the Mayor and members of council HERE (scroll down). |
On March 1 We the Nuclear Free North wrote to the Atikokan Council, providing information about the Nuclear Waste Management Organization's project to transport, bury and then abandon all of Canad's high-level nuclear waste in a single location. The Revell site between Ignace and Dryden is one of two remaining "candidate" sites and is at the headwaters of the Wabigoon and the Turtle and Rain River Watersheds.
Read We the Nuclear Free North's March 1 letter HERE. The backgrounder is HERE and the sample resolution is HERE. View the list of resolutions passed by other municipalities HERE. We the Nuclear Free North will be making a deputation to Atikokan Council on Monday, June 10th at the 4:30 pm meeting of the Committee of the Whole. The public is welcome to attend the meeting in person, or to watch the livestream which will be broadcast HERE. |
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North West Nuclear Watch is a non-profit organization operated by volunteers who live, work and play in our wild and wonderful Northwestern Ontario. Inclusive in this organization are tourist camp owners, cottage owners, people who work in the mining and forestry sectors, people in the service industry and just plain ordinary people who live here and care about the environment we live in.
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The people of Atikokan already said NO to a nuclear waste dump. Twice." |
In the early 1980s Atikokan said NO to a dump for high level nuclear waste produced by nuclear power plants. In the 1990s Atikokan said NO to a dump for huge volmes of low level waste radioactive wastes from Port Hope, Ontario.
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Over the last four decades the nuclear industry has been looking for a place to dump their deadly toxic radioactive wastes. In the early 1980s Atiokan rejected the dump proposal just after two mines closed with the loss of 1,200 jobs. After consultation with knowledgeable people independent of the nuclear industry 85% of the people in Atikokan said no to the dump.
The nuclear industry has rethought their strategy and formed a group made up of the nuclear power reactor owners called the Nuclear Waste Management Organization whose purpose is to convince a community to accept the toxic waste the industry produces. |
Atikokan drill site demonstrations [Mcleans Magazine, 1980]
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The risks are very real and dangerous! Highway accidents transporting the waste, leakage of the radioactive material into our waterways, and the dump itself and trucks carrying the radioactive waste could be potential targets for terrorist attacks.
Any one of these risks could have catastrophic consequences for the region we live in.
Any one of these risks could have catastrophic consequences for the region we live in.
