<html><body><div style="color:#000; background-color:#fff; font-family:HelveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif;font-size:16px"><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1427726930683_48961" dir="ltr"><span>Just sent this off. </span></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1427726930683_48961" dir="ltr"><span><br></span></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1427726930683_48961" dir="ltr"><span>Lulu </span></div><br> <div style="font-family: HelveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1427726930683_48958"> <div style="font-family: HelveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1427726930683_48957"> <div dir="ltr" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1427726930683_48960"> ----- Forwarded Message -----<br> <font size="2" face="Arial" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1427726930683_48959"> <b><span style="font-weight:bold;">From:</span></b> Louisette Lanteigne <butterflybluelu@rogers.com><br> <b><span style="font-weight: bold;">To:</span></b> "consultation@cnsc-ccsn.gc.ca" <consultation@cnsc-ccsn.gc.ca>; "minister.mnr@ontario.ca" <minister.mnr@ontario.ca>; "minister.moe@ontario.ca" <minister.moe@ontario.ca>; "bchiarelli.mpp@liberal.ola.org" <bchiarelli.mpp@liberal.ola.org>; "catherinefife@on.ndp.ca" <catherinefife@on.ndp.ca>; "kwynne.mpp@liberal.ola.org" <kwynne.mpp@liberal.ola.org>; "stephane.dion@parl.gc.ca" <stephane.dion@parl.gc.ca>; "minister.ene@ontario.ca" <minister.ene@ontario.ca> <br> <b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Sent:</span></b> Monday, March 30, 2015 2:04 PM<br> <b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Subject:</span></b> Regarding regulatory framework for nuclear<br> </font> </div> <div class="y_msg_container" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1427726930683_48956"><br><div id="yiv0232347571"><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1427726930683_48955"><div style="color:#000;background-color:#fff;font-family:HelveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif;font-size:16px;" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1427726930683_48954"><div id="yiv0232347571"><div id="yiv0232347571yui_3_16_0_1_1427726930683_45490"><div style="color:#000;background-color:#fff;font-family:HelveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif;font-size:16px;" id="yiv0232347571yui_3_16_0_1_1427726930683_45489"><div id="yiv0232347571yui_3_16_0_1_1427726930683_36240" dir="ltr">Hello</div><div id="yiv0232347571yui_3_16_0_1_1427726930683_36240" dir="ltr"><br></div><div id="yiv0232347571yui_3_16_0_1_1427726930683_36240" dir="ltr">I'd like to thank the Canadian Nuclear Safety Council for their work in keeping folks informed on policy advancements and other issues impacting the CNSC. The emails on updates are excellent. Great job there and I want to thank you for that. </div><div id="yiv0232347571yui_3_16_0_1_1427726930683_36240" dir="ltr"><br></div><div id="yiv0232347571yui_3_16_0_1_1427726930683_36240" dir="ltr">When it came to the safety updates, I contemplated giving input because I understand the roll nuclear has played in helping to wean us away from carbon fuels. Nuclear energy helped keep the lights on and it contributed to a vast array of scientific advances that has provided cancer treatments, technological advancements etc. so I do appreciate those things. </div><div id="yiv0232347571yui_3_16_0_1_1427726930683_36240" dir="ltr"><br></div><div id="yiv0232347571yui_3_16_0_1_1427726930683_36240" dir="ltr">When I do environmental advocacy work. I do it because I see visions of what the risks are and the ways beyond it. When I contemplate on nuclear safety protocols, my mind is blank. Fundamentally I have to admit that there is no safe level, no safe way to do this and no safe storage options that will contain these issues. Not yet anyhow. It's not an answer that is coming anytime in my given lifetime at all. The only reasonable way we can advance is to accept that this particular form of energy comes at a cost to high for any planet to pay. Safer options exist that we can easily pursue that won't come any where near the risks of nuclear. Namely hydro, geothermal, solar or simply more efficient design to conserve the energy we need to support generations to come. </div><div id="yiv0232347571yui_3_16_0_1_1427726930683_36240" dir="ltr"><br></div><div id="yiv0232347571yui_3_16_0_1_1427726930683_36240" dir="ltr">In my heart, and my head, I know it's simply not worth the risks. To many leaks, to many jellybabies in Iraq from DU laced bullets and bombs, To many jelly babies in the reserves near Uranium mines and tailing ponds that are too costly to fix. To great a national security risk for the bombs it can create. From a nuclear war head to a hand held dirty bomb it is not worth the risk. </div><div id="yiv0232347571yui_3_16_0_1_1427726930683_36240" dir="ltr"><br></div><div id="yiv0232347571yui_3_16_0_1_1427726930683_36240" dir="ltr">Our groundwater shows global impacts by tritium from global testing and from Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Radiation has no boundaries. It cannot simply be contained for billions of years without issues. It's cumulative impacts. Death by a thousand cuts. Mainly cancer.</div><div id="yiv0232347571yui_3_16_0_1_1427726930683_36240" dir="ltr"><br></div><div id="yiv0232347571yui_3_16_0_1_1427726930683_36240" dir="ltr">Threats include climate change with temperatures too warm to cool reactors. </div><div id="yiv0232347571yui_3_16_0_1_1427726930683_36240" dir="ltr"><a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://www.masslive.com/news/index.ssf/2012/08/warm_seawater_forces_conn_nucl.html" id="yiv0232347571yui_3_16_0_1_1427726930683_36703" style="background-color:rgb(255, 255, 255);">http://www.masslive.com/news/index.ssf/2012/08/warm_seawater_forces_conn_nucl.html</a><br></div><div id="yiv0232347571yui_3_16_0_1_1427726930683_36240" dir="ltr"><br></div><div id="yiv0232347571yui_3_16_0_1_1427726930683_36240" dir="ltr">Sometimes Jellyfish</div><div id="yiv0232347571yui_3_16_0_1_1427726930683_36240" dir="ltr"><a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/oct/01/jellyfish-clog-swedish-nuclear-reactor-shutdown" id="yiv0232347571yui_3_16_0_1_1427726930683_39960">http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/oct/01/jellyfish-clog-swedish-nuclear-reactor-shutdown</a><br></div><div id="yiv0232347571yui_3_16_0_1_1427726930683_36240" dir="ltr"><br></div><div id="yiv0232347571yui_3_16_0_1_1427726930683_36240" dir="ltr">Sometimes computer geeks gone bad with things like Stuxnet</div><div id="yiv0232347571yui_3_16_0_1_1427726930683_36240" dir="ltr"><a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://www.timesofisrael.com/stuxnet-virus-attacked-iran-earlier-than-thought/" id="yiv0232347571yui_3_16_0_1_1427726930683_40152">http://www.timesofisrael.com/stuxnet-virus-attacked-iran-earlier-than-thought/</a><br></div><div id="yiv0232347571yui_3_16_0_1_1427726930683_36240" dir="ltr"><br></div><div id="yiv0232347571yui_3_16_0_1_1427726930683_36240" dir="ltr">Then we have issues of leaks at Handford</div><div id="yiv0232347571yui_3_16_0_1_1427726930683_36240" dir="ltr"><a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://rt.com/usa/192300-hanford-nuclear-waste-leak/" id="yiv0232347571yui_3_16_0_1_1427726930683_40197">http://rt.com/usa/192300-hanford-nuclear-waste-leak/</a><br></div><div id="yiv0232347571yui_3_16_0_1_1427726930683_36240" dir="ltr"><br></div><div id="yiv0232347571yui_3_16_0_1_1427726930683_36240" dir="ltr">New Mexico</div><div id="yiv0232347571yui_3_16_0_1_1427726930683_36240" dir="ltr"><a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://indiancountrytodaymedianetwork.com/2014/12/08/new-mexico-fines-feds-54-million-radiation-leaks-los-alamos-and-wipp-158182" id="yiv0232347571yui_3_16_0_1_1427726930683_40229">http://indiancountrytodaymedianetwork.com/2014/12/08/new-mexico-fines-feds-54-million-radiation-leaks-los-alamos-and-wipp-158182</a></div><div id="yiv0232347571yui_3_16_0_1_1427726930683_36240" dir="ltr"><br></div><div id="yiv0232347571yui_3_16_0_1_1427726930683_36240" dir="ltr">The leaks list can go on and on. Same to for tailing pond issues. DU issues with military use. </div><div id="yiv0232347571yui_3_16_0_1_1427726930683_36240" dir="ltr"><br></div><div id="yiv0232347571yui_3_16_0_1_1427726930683_36240" dir="ltr">Fukushima's earthquake and tsunami has left us with a clean up for which we have no technology to decommission. </div><div id="yiv0232347571yui_3_16_0_1_1427726930683_36240" dir="ltr"><a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://www.globalresearch.ca/japan-faces-200-year-wait-for-fukushima-clean-up-technology-to-decommission-melted-down-reactors-does-not-exist/5439572" id="yiv0232347571yui_3_16_0_1_1427726930683_39834">http://www.globalresearch.ca/japan-faces-200-year-wait-for-fukushima-clean-up-technology-to-decommission-melted-down-reactors-does-not-exist/5439572</a><br></div><div id="yiv0232347571yui_3_16_0_1_1427726930683_36240" dir="ltr"><br></div><div id="yiv0232347571yui_3_16_0_1_1427726930683_36240" dir="ltr">Cumilative impacts over time with electro magnetic fields, cell phones and a bevy of sources that can move it along from pipelines, tech toys etc. </div><div id="yiv0232347571yui_3_16_0_1_1427726930683_36240" dir="ltr"><br></div><div id="yiv0232347571yui_3_16_0_1_1427726930683_36240" dir="ltr">There is no logical way I can bend my mind to say it's OK to morally, ethically or scientifically support the use of nuclear energy as an energy supply venture. It is unreasonable, unsafe, costly and frankly, the global community is phasing it out. Long overdue for that one. </div><div id="yiv0232347571yui_3_16_0_1_1427726930683_36240" dir="ltr"><br></div><div id="yiv0232347571yui_3_16_0_1_1427726930683_36240" dir="ltr">Darlington needs to close. So does Pickering. Bruce was built on top of an earthquake fault line for heaven's sake. </div><div id="yiv0232347571yui_3_16_0_1_1427726930683_36240" dir="ltr"><br></div><div id="yiv0232347571yui_3_16_0_1_1427726930683_36240" dir="ltr">Time to safely decommission. Import in hydro from Quebec and Manitoba if need be but we gotta get these things closed. </div><div id="yiv0232347571yui_3_16_0_1_1427726930683_36240" dir="ltr"><br></div><div id="yiv0232347571yui_3_16_0_1_1427726930683_36240" dir="ltr">We also need to store the waste. I suggest we get it well away from the Great Lakes Watershed. This needs to be stored in a bedrock system away from major aquifer systems. </div><div id="yiv0232347571yui_3_16_0_1_1427726930683_36240" dir="ltr"><br></div><div id="yiv0232347571yui_3_16_0_1_1427726930683_36240" dir="ltr">I wish I could point to the best example for storage but even the CNSC found out via the Lake Huron Deep Repository hearing that reality has a horrible sense of irony. The example they picked leaked. </div><div id="yiv0232347571yui_3_16_0_1_1427726930683_36240" dir="ltr"><br></div><div id="yiv0232347571yui_3_16_0_1_1427726930683_36240" dir="ltr">Ontario needs to thank God we made it this far and end it before we hit a crisis. Enough is enough. Shut them down. </div><div id="yiv0232347571yui_3_16_0_1_1427726930683_36240" dir="ltr"><br></div><div id="yiv0232347571yui_3_16_0_1_1427726930683_36240" dir="ltr">Zebra Mussels, algae or rock snot or an oil spill could block or close down the pipes. Lake Ontario might grow so warm in the days ahead it can't cool the reactors. It's not unrealistic anymore. It's the reality of the risks we face in today's world. It's not if but when it will happen. Perhaps US fracking causing a chain of earthquakes could rattle up Pickering or Bruce. Do we really want to wait and see what kind of disaster we could have or will we have the good sense enough to close shop and end the risks while we can?</div><div id="yiv0232347571yui_3_16_0_1_1427726930683_36240" dir="ltr"><br></div><div id="yiv0232347571yui_3_16_0_1_1427726930683_36240" dir="ltr">It's time to end the risks.</div><div id="yiv0232347571yui_3_16_0_1_1427726930683_36240" dir="ltr"><br></div><div id="yiv0232347571yui_3_16_0_1_1427726930683_36240" dir="ltr"><br></div><div id="yiv0232347571yui_3_16_0_1_1427726930683_36240" dir="ltr">Louisette Lanteigne</div><div id="yiv0232347571yui_3_16_0_1_1427726930683_36240" dir="ltr">700 Star Flower Ave.</div><div id="yiv0232347571yui_3_16_0_1_1427726930683_36240" dir="ltr">Waterloo Ont.</div><div id="yiv0232347571yui_3_16_0_1_1427726930683_36240" dir="ltr">N2V 2L2</div><div id="yiv0232347571yui_3_16_0_1_1427726930683_36240" dir="ltr"><br></div><div id="yiv0232347571yui_3_16_0_1_1427726930683_36240" dir="ltr"><br></div><div id="yiv0232347571yui_3_16_0_1_1427726930683_36240" dir="ltr"><br></div><div id="yiv0232347571yui_3_16_0_1_1427726930683_36240" dir="ltr"><br></div><div id="yiv0232347571yui_3_16_0_1_1427726930683_36240" dir="ltr" class="yiv0232347571" style=""><br class="yiv0232347571" style=""></div></div></div></div></div></div></div><br><br></div> </div> </div> </div></body></html>