The Municipality of South Bruce, a collection of Ontario farm towns about a 40-minute drive from Canada's largest nuclear power plant, has set the table for an historic vote on whether it will host a nuclear waste dump.
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Goodwill’ money from proposed nuclear waste site pours into declining Ontario farm town. What if it stops?
Colin Butler · CBC News ·May 07, 2021 A citizens’ group is accusing Canada’s nuclear industry of using its financial might to groom a declining Ontario farm community into becoming a willing host for the country’s most dangerous radioactive waste.
In a pamphlet about the proposed disposal site that was published last year, the Ontario municipality of South Bruce which encompasses the farming communities of Teeswater, Mildmay, Formosa and Salem says it’s “on the decline.”
The pamphlet tells of a shrinking population, where rural towns and village “downtowns are fading from what they used to be,” with vacant store windows, big infrastructure bills and few prospects for new economic growth.
Goodwill money from proposed nuclear waste site pours into declining Ontario farm town. What if it stops?
A citizens group is accusing Canada s nuclear industry of using its financial might to groom a declining Ontario farm community into becoming a willing host for the country s most dangerous radioactive waste.
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