Item MM41.21 ACTION
Item Tracking Status City Council adopted this item on November 13, 2013 without amendments. City Council consideration on November 13, 2013 MM41.21 ACTION Adopted Ward:All Protecting the Great Lakes from a nuclear waste repository - by Councillor Mike Layton, seconded by Councillor Gary Crawford City Council Decision City Council on November 13, 14, 15 and 18, 2013, adopted the following: 1. Toronto City Council support the Great Lakes and St. Lawrence Cities Initiative’s position and oppose the Ontario Power Generation's (OPG) proposal for a Deep Geological Repository for low and intermediate radioactive waste in Kincardine, Ontario. 2. In order to protect the Great Lakes and its tributaries, Toronto City Council urge that neither this proposed nuclear waste repository near Kincardine, Ontario, nor any other underground nuclear waste repository, be constructed in the Great Lakes Basin, in Canada, or in the United States. 3. Toronto City Council forward this resolution, for immediate attention and action, to: the Great Lakes and St. Lawrence Cities Initiative, Chair, Mr. Keith Hobbs, Mayor of Thunder Bay, as well as Joint Review Panel Deep Geological Repository for Low and Intermediate Level Radioactive Waste Case Reference Number 17520, Panel Co-Manager, Ms. Debra Myles, all local Members of Provincial Parliament and all Members of Parliament. Background Information (City Council) Member Motion MM41.21 (http://www.toronto.ca/legdocs/mmis/2013/mm/bgrd/backgroundfile-63508.pdf) Communications (City Council) (November 8, 2013) Submission
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