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The Lucknow Sentinel, 2016-07-27, Page 11Bruce Power donates $75,000 to the Wingham & District Hospital Foundation's capital campaign Bruce Power pledged $75,000 to the Wingham & District Hospital Foundation's 'Our Hospital, Our Future' campaign, July 20, 2016. The foundation has raised 90 per cent of the $4 million it needs to expand six of its hospital's depart- ments, including the only chemo- therapy clinic in Bruce and Huron counties, replacement of the digital imaging equipment and the creation of a community health care campus. James Scongack, Bruce Power's Vice President, Corporate Affairs, said community -driven campaigns such as Wingham's are essential to the long-term availability of health care services in rural Ontario, and Bruce Power is proud to play a role in these successes. "Bruce Power makes every effort to assist these core fundraising campaigns as they seek to improve the quality of life for residents in our region," Scongack said. "Any time we can help maintain or increase the standard of health care in our area, we are helping to improve our communities?' Scott Miller, campaign team leader for 'Our Hospital, Our Future,' said Bruce Power's contri- bution is a boost for the fundraising initiative. "It's great that Bruce Power rec- ognizes the value of the Wingham Hospital to their employees and residents of our community," Miller said. To learn more about the fund- raising campaign, visit www.wdh- foundation.ca. Wednesday, July 27, 2016 • Lucknow Sentinel 11 =..YJ. DR FacruNtuireati Scott Miller, left, Wingham & District Hospital Foundation's 'Our Hospital, Our Future' campaign team leader, and Mark Foxton, right, campaign chair, recently received a $75,000 cheque from Christine John, Bruce Power Communications Specialist, and James Scongack, Bruce Power's Vice President, Corporate Affairs. Nuclear -waste vault opponents accuse OPG of side-stepping gov't instructions Debora Van Brenk The London Free Press Opponents of a proposed deep nuclear -waste vault near Lake Huron have accused Ontario Power Gener- ation (OPG) of side-stepping specific federal instructions to study altema- tive sites. With half a year left before OPG's deadline to produce a report exam- ining what it would take to study other sites in depth, Nuclear Waste Watch is telling the federal environ- ment minister to keep a close eye on what questions the electricity supplier will answer. Nuclear Waste Watch, an informal coalition of about 50 environmental groups, says OPG should be looking at specific alternate locations rather than generic geologic areas. Brennain Lloyd of Nuclear Waste Watch and Northwatch said OPG is working on "a siteless site study" — not a location, but hypothetical regions — and that's not acceptable. "We're talking (about) the dif- ference between evidence and ideas," Lloyd said. The group's new letter to Environment Minis- ter Catherine McKenna states, "As Minister it is essential that you hold them to a reasonable standard of performance." At issue is a proposed deep vault the size of a big -box store that would house, in perpetuity, low- and mid-level radioactive dry byproducts of nuclear energy production — a repository rec- ommended beside Bruce Nuclear Power plant near Kincardine. Opponents fear the facility may leach radioactivity into the Great Lakes. Proponents say it's as safe as any such facility can be. After months of hearings, a review panel in 2015 recom- mended the environment minis- ter allow construction plans to proceed. But after the election, and change of government, McK- enna asked OPG to produce fur- ther studies by the end of 2016. OPG spokesperson Neal Kelly said the utility is on track to pro- duce the requisite studies by the end of this year. "We're following the regulatory process," Kelly said. He said OPG is studying the impact — in acquiring land, pack- aging and transportation, green- house gas effects and economic effect — of locating a DGR on a granite base in the region of central northern Ontario and on sedimen- tary (limestone) rock in the region of central eastern Ontario. "The study is not to seek a new willing -host community. We have a willing -host community (in Kincar- dine). We firmly believe Kincardine is the best site for a DGR," Kelly said. Nuclear Waste Watch reminds McKenna in its letter to "pay care- ful attention" to OPG's response to make sure it answers the questions the environment minister has. Then, the group says, McKenna should consult directly with the pub- lic, including with First Nations peo- ples, and review some of the techni- cal details with the federal Science Minister before making a decision. The Kincardine site has already been endorsed, with some conditions, by a joint review panel following years of study and months of public review. Low- and mid-level waste — including filters and incinerated r 9 The Lucknow Sentinel Birthday Club Saraya Pererhans July 29, 2009 7 years old Alana Carol Mackey July 30, 2004 12 years old Ethan Bushell August 1, 2010 6 years old Jamie Peterhans August 2, 2010 6 years old Your child can be a member of the Sentinel's birthday club call 519-528-2822 to register eknwr Sentinel 619 Campbell Street 519-528-2822 gloves and mops that have come into contact with radiation, but excluding spent nuclear fuel — is now stored at- or below -grade at the Bruce plant. The plan is to bury about 200,000 cubic metres of that waste into a vault, deeper than the CN Tower is tall, in dense limestone that geologists say hasn't moved in 45 million years. But a host of opponents in Can- ada and the US have said OPG should have done a detailed study of more than one site and that this one is too close to the Great Lakes for comfort. What Ontario Power Generation has been asked to do now: - Study the effects of finding potentially feasible alternate sites. - Analyze the potential cumula- tive environmental effects of put- ting the deep geologic repository (DGR) so near to where another underground potential storage site, this one for spent nuclear fuel, may also be located. - Update the list of ways OPG will mitigate any identified adverse effects the project could have. - Submit a report to federal Envi- ronment Minister Catherine McK- enna by the end of 2016. Need an easy way to stay active in retirement? Adult lifestyle communities offer a variety of activities from low -impact aqua fitness to indoor swimming pools, well-maintained walking and biking paths, exercise rooms, tennis courts, golf, and much more. 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