Don’t let the Great Lakes Become a

Nuclear Dump!

We, the undersigned, strongly oppose the construction of an unprecented, deep underground radioactive waste storage dump near Kincardine, Ontario, across Lake Huron from East Tawas, Michigan.  The proposed dump will accept nuclear waste from 20 Ontario reactors, on a site less than a mile from Lake Huron, that must be kept in isolation from the ecosystem for millennia.  

We further strongly oppose Shell Canada's plan to build a heavy oil refinery that will process 250,000 barrels of crude oil a day along the St. Clair River near Port Huron and across from East China and St. Clair. Port Huron and St. Clair River provide drinking water to millions of Michigan citizens and these projects represent a clear danger to the health and safety of Michigan citizens, not to mention the Great Lakes are home to 84% of our nation's freshwater.

Michigan is already the dumping ground of choice for Canadian trash, taking in millions of tons of garbage each year. It is wrong for Canada to threaten the biological integrity of Lake Huron with deep underground radioactive wastes that must be kept isolated for millennia and refinery pollution into the Great Lakes region on top of that. In addition to expressing our strong opposition to the radioactive storage site and the polluting oil refinery, we further call on leaders from both sides of the border to stop these projects from becoming a reality.

Michigan is the Great Lakes State, not the Great Dumping State!