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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.
