Green-Party-Leader-Elizabeth-May-at-2010-Green-Party-Convention-in-Toronto, to make Toronto glow nuclear green

Green Party Leader Elizabeth May at 2010 Green Party Convention in Toronto, to make Toronto glow nuclear green?!

Toronto Goes Green with both Green Party of Canada Convention and Bruce Nuclear Power Plant waste!Toronto --What are Canada’s leaders doing about nuclear waste? It’s ironic that the Green Party Leader, Elizabeth May, and the Green Party of Canada is holding its national convention in Toronto this summer 2010. This September, Toronto and the Great Lakes could glow green –nuclear green that is!Bruce Nuclear Energy Generating Plant is the largest in North America, second largest in the world. Sixteen 16 old generators from the Bruce Plant shall be sent to Sweden for recycling! These 100 tonne generators will be sent by ship through the Great Lakes, where in Sweden 90% of the material in the generators will be recycled, with the remainder returned to the Bruce Plant to be stored as nuclear waste.With the images of the BP Gulf oil leak in the public’s mind, will the Green Party Leader May, speak out at their August 2010 Green Party Convention , against this terrible government decision to transport nuclear waste material across the Great Lakes -- some 20% of the world’s surface fresh water!We found some interesting concerns about this nuclear waste transport at the Wind Blog by Glen Estill, at http://www.biofuels.coop/windblog/ --1 “If water gets into the generator, is it possible that greater levels of radiation would be dispersed?2 “If a generator went down, and was down for awhile, what would be the impact, if any, on fish? The Great Lakes have a significant sport and commercial fishery.3 “Much of the water supply for residents of Ontario, Michigan, Ohio, Pennsylvania, and New York State is drawn from the Great Lakes. Millions of people rely on this water. How close would the ship pass to water intakes? “Like the Titanic, BP offered complete trust in its systems, backup systems. A leak could result in catastrophic damage to the environment.Where are the political leaders, federally, provincially, municipally, on this issue?! The Green Party, of course, is committed to environmental issues. So will Green Party Leader May, speak out on this issue at their August 2010 Green Party Convention in Toronto –which ironically, sits on the shores of Lake Ontario, part of the Great Lakes system.Nuclear power safe? It’s a haunting thought, with the anniversaries of the nuclear bombings of Japan; and the recent anniversary of the Chernobyl nuclear plant leaks.“The threat of nuclear disaster is always with us and is an unnecessary risk that we must put to an end,” said Green Leader Elizabeth May. “Even CANDU reactors have the potential for a devastating accident, which is all the more reason to phase them out and shift to renewables.”“Every year, the anniversary of Chernobyl is a reminder to us that nuclear energy is not worth the risk.”“As Canada’s nuclear power plants age, we need to shift away from this dangerous technology and toward clean power such as wind, solar and hydroelectricity. Not only is it significantly safer, it is also the more economically sound path,” said Green Party Leader May.Such irony that the August Green Party Convention shall be in Toronto, Canada, with governments and citizens supporting the September movement of nuclear waste from Canada to Sweden, across some of the world’s most important ecology systems, from the Great Lakes’ fisheries, drinking water, to the ocean fisheries and open sea issues of the Atlantic Ocean.Can Green Party Leader May seize on this issue, on this symbolic moment, to speak out about the dangers of nuclear power, the positive potential of alternative energy; to outreach the peoples of Canada and the world?!