The protesters left the community of Pinehouse on July 27, on foot about 820 kilometres, and were joined by others on the way to Regina to inquire the province to ban radioactive waste, "It's for fear of our future generations to not impose this conclusion on them that would kill our watertable, our watershed," Max Morin, single of the walk organizers, said Tuesday at a rally in front of the legislature.
"The basin over there is just one big sponge so as to keeps our air clean, too, So it's all about the love of our future generations" Pinehouse is single of three Saskatchewan communities being considered for an underground storage dump through the federal Nuclear Waste Management Organization (NWMO).
The organization is trying to find a site so as to would serve as a dump for all the country's nuclear waste. The decision to build a centralized storage space site was made by the federal government in 2007, Estimates set the price-tag from $16 billion to $24 billion over the life of the facility, which could last 100 years, Officials will verify the suitability of communities against criteria that could rule them out -- including the being there of groundwater, fault lines or natural resources, Studies have cited the Canadian Shield as the perfect type of geological formation intended for housing a nuclear store.
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