Nuclear waste in your backyard?

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Nuclear waste in your backyard?

Freeda Peeble wrote:Posted 2009/08/20at 12:09 PM ET
I live in in the beautiful Shield country of Western Ontario. (For those who sometimes confuse self importance with actual geography, I'm refering to that enormous part of our Province located on the main Trans Canada economic corridor that is truly western, i.e. -closer to Edmonton than to Toronto.) The power that lights my city comes from cheap, renewable hydraulic sources. This region's power grid is not even connected to southern Ontario's expensive thermal and nuclear system, but thanks to Provincial pricing, my astronomical hydro bill (compared to my Manitoba neighbours who use the same water powers,) has been subsidizing the nuclear part of the people's power system for years. The paper mill that kept my community fed for the past century is being permanently dismantled because the artificially high cost of Ontario's electricity in this watershed has made it uncompetetive. So, those of you who have had the benefit of the nuclear power and the jobs and my subsidy can also keep the glow-in-the-dark leftovers. May you live happily together for a very, very long time.