Goderich Mayor Deb Shewfelt seems to be one of the few Great Lakes mayors who approves of the Canadian Nuclear Safety Commission allowing Bruce Power to ship decommissioned steam generators through the Great Lakes.
The Great Lakes and St. Lawrence Cities Initiative has expressed disappointment with the CNSC decision to let the shipment go ahead.
Shewfelt tells Bayshore Broadcasting News that transporting the 16 generators on the water is the only practical solution and by far the safest one.
Shewfelt tells us there is still a difference of opinion among Great Lakes mayors on what to do with the generators.
He believes you cannot keep burying old nuclear generators and that recycling them is the only option.
Shewfelt says all possible precautions are being taken to make sure the generators get through the Great Lakes and St. Lawrence Seaway safely.
The ship taking the generators to Sweden is specially designed and outfitted for the job.
He takes issue with some of his colleagues downstream and thinks some of them knee-jerked on the issue without taking a proper look at what was involved.
Shewfelt calls out Sarnia Mayor Mike Bradley on the issue.
Bradley is a vocal opponent of the generator shipment.
Shewfelt tells Bradley to take a closer look at some of the hazardous material that’s shipped out of the Chemical Valley every day that Shewfelt says is far more dangerous than the small amount of radioactive waste in the generators.
