News from the St. Catharines and District Council of Women
On Thursday, November 13th, 2014 this region’s Council of Women will be holding an 8 p.m. public meeting at the St. Catharines Centennial Library on 54 Church Street on continued concerns over the possibility of liquid nuclear waste being trucked across border bridges in Niagara.
Will the Peace Bridge or other Canada/U.S border crossings in the Niagara/Buffalo area be used for trucking liquid nuclear waste?
The meeting, free of charge and open to all members of the public will feature a panel of speakers and address the following:
- Why is high level , very dangerous liquid nuclear waste being transported from Chalk River , Ontario, to South Carolina?
- What are the dangers and are we prepared?
- How are our US neighbors trying stop this and why?
On The Panel –
Barbara Pulst, former Niagara resident now living near the Pickering nuclear station
Lynda Schneekloth, Chair, Sierra Club Niagara (USA)
Natasha Soto, Community Organizer Clean Air Coalition , Buffalo
Gracia Janes, VP Environment Provincial Council of Women of Ontario
Sponsored by the 20 Affiliated Member Groups & Individual Members of the St. Catharines and District Council of Women.
(NOW IT IS YOUR TURN. Niagara At Large encourages you to share your views on this post. A reminder that we only post comments by individuals who share their first and last name with them.)
Niagara At Large 
Unfortunately, I can’t attend this event.
Will someone please ask my question and post the panel’s reply here:
“Aren’t we in Niagara being hypocrites to question this issue when ~60% of our electricity is Nuclear, and we all like to use radio-isotopes in our hospitals?”
“Furthermore, Niagara Region just withdrew from our 50-50 Wainfleet Wind Farm partnership, at a Loss, just before it is goes on line & produces income.”
“Until we put our money where our mouths are (power our own homes with Small Wind & Solar) we should Shut Up!”
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I am grateful for freedom of speech in this country. I am also grateful that we can question matters of public safety in an open forum where everyone is invited. This is not hypocrisy but individuals engaged in their civic duty.
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Agreed Susan. We have had 3 Remembrance Days in 2014:
. June 12 Ontario election
. October 27 municipal elections
. November 11 when we commemorate the people who fought for 500+ years to give us the freedom to change kings Peacefully.
My point is that our parents’ generation in Ontario bet on the wrong horse to generate electricity – Nuclear. it’s not:
. affordable (always over-budget)
. insurable ($500,000,000 liability insurance is nothing when the railway crash in Lac Mégantic will cost that much)
. disposable (They want to bury it under Lake Huron for 100,000 years, in leak-proof containers. The well water in Niagara comes through the rock from Lake Huron.)
Governments won’t save us – they are locked into this potentially disastrous technology.
Let’s take things into our own hands, put our money where our worries are, and make our own electricity so that we can Get Off Nuclear, and avoid the need to protest the 50-yr-old unsolved (unsolvable?) problem of Nuclear Waste.
Our true civic duty is to solve as individuals what our government cannot.
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