Will the Great Lakes become a nuclear dump?
No way!
But unless we join together and make our voices heard, the Canadian government will build a site right on the shores of Lake Huron to store radioactive waste from 20 nuclear plants for hundreds of years.
As if that wasn’t bad enough: Oil company Shell Canada wants to build a giant refinery along five miles of the St. Clair River that will process 250,000 barrels of heavy crude oil daily – and put one of our most important waterways at risk.
Lake Huron and the St. Clair River provide drinking water to millions of Michigan citizens. They are an important waterway that carries trade and commerce on the Great Lakes, creating jobs and opportunity in Michigan. Putting a dangerous nuclear dump and a highly polluting oil refinery along these bodies of water threatens our health and quality of life.
Instead of treating us like a good neighbor and the Great Lakes State, Canada is treating us like the Great Dumping State.
The nuclear waste site and the oil refinery pose a real danger to our families today and for generations to come.