Nuclear Wasted

Ontario is nervous. Very, very nervous. Their nuclear brain trust is cognoscente of what is really happening in Japan at the doomed Fukushima nuclear facility, and so they are edgy.

Forty years of nuclear power generation has created an explosion of wealth in Ontario, and forty years ago our nuclear heroes were sure they could swallow their own nuclear waste. Today they are sitting on a mountain of lethal radiating garbage, just as the Japanese are at Fukushima.

What to do? I’ll admit it’s a puzzle, but I do know what they CANNOT do – they CANNOT move their nuclear waste ANYWHERE. Nuclear waste MUST be managed by the generations that follow from the great wealth produced by this horrid means of generating power.

The children, grandchildren, great grandchildren and great, great, great grandchildren of the nuclear wealthy MUST bear the burden of the grievous sins committed by their ancestors.

So why are we again being told that Ontario wants to use Indian reserves as nuclear waste dumps?

Native communities in far-flung places have NEVER benefited from the prosperity of the nuclear age. There are no super highways on reserves, no paved roads, no hospitals and sometimes there is no potable water. Their future generations cannot and will not pay the price for Ontario’s nuclear binge. This is NON-NEGOTIABLE, but then there is really no need to negotiate.

There is no reason to argue about this. It would have happened already if it could have happened. Years ago Ontario told the locals at Pinawa Manitoba that they had a perfect pluton for nuclear waste storage. Pinawa bought the story hook line and sinker. In my view, that community will never recover from the mess left behind when the nuclear predators from Ontario abandoned the leaky pluton at Pinawa.

But the nuclear ghouls learned an important lesson in Manitoba. They discovered that it will put them back in the poorhouse if they try to move out their glowing garbage en masse.

Yup....they cannot live with it and they cannot afford to move it. This latest effort to deceive the innocent is just another hollow exercise to placate detractors in the Big Smoke.

The meek shall indeed inherit the earth.