Dear Editor,
When it comes to the potential storage of nuclear waste near Creighton, the future is in our hands.
The credentialed people of Atomic Energy of Canada Ltd., Ontario Power Generation and Canadian Nuclear Safety Commission (CNSC) can argue with the best of their peers. Science, without wisdom, is
dangerous.
The situation the nuclear industry and governments, past and present, have put us all in lacked foresight and has left the world with a problem of epic proportions.
They ask that we trust their knowledge, yet they cannot guarantee the results. They come not humbly to your doorstep asking to bury their problem amongst you, but waving money, like door-to-door salesmen, to buy your support, to pay you to take the risk.
They send the NWMO and CNSC to our communities to lay the global responsibility guilt trip at our feet, yet they cannot and will not answer all of our questions.
They will not guarantee the safety of our future generations because they do not know if this will work, either. So I ask you all, do credentials satisfy your valid concerns?
At a meeting I attended in English River First Nation, the CNSC admitted the nuclear industry used the bomb victims of Hiroshima to learn how radiation affects human beings, yet they did not stop. Was this the act of caring for our future that invokes our trust?
The Canadian government may have known the harms of radiation but still employed men from the Dene of Deline at a uranium mine in the Northwest Territories in the 1940s. This left an entire group of people suffering and grieving. Does this invoke our trust in their credentials?
The more I have learned about the government and regulatory record of accidents, cover-ups and lies, the less I trust their credentials.
This is not about their desire to now become globally responsible; it is about covering up what they have not been successful at controlling.
Think about this. Be wise because they are not.
