Congressman Fred Upton is still waiting on a response from Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau to a letter he and other members of Congress sent last year asking that Canada not store nuclear waste near the Great Lakes. Upton tells WSJM News those who signed the letter are getting anxious, and so they’ve introduced a resolution.
“We haven’t heard from him,” Upton said. “That letter went out in October or November. We didn’t hear back from him. There’s now been a resolution that’s been introduced to Congress. A number of us, Republicans and Democrats from Michigan and the Midwest, are signing on to that bill.”
The legislation from Representatives Kildee and Moolenaar asks President Donald Trump and his administration to work with the Canadian government to find an alternative location to permanently store nuclear waste outside of the Great Lakes basin. Upton hopes Trudeau will notice.
“We’re hoping to maybe move it through the Congress and actually have a vote that will certainly get his attention.”
Canada is in the process of choosing a site for the long term storage of spent nuclear material. One of the locations under consideration is along the shore of Lake Huron. It’s the area of Huron-Kinloss-South Bruce, in Bruce County, Ontario. Upton hopes for House action on the resolution when members return.
