BAD AXE — The city recently joined the effort to oppose a Canadian power company’s proposal to store radioactive waste 2,200 feet underground and within a mile of the Lake Huron shoreline.
Last week, the city council approved a resolution opposing the construction of the nuclear waste repository, which according to recent estimates would store 7 million cubic-feet of low- to intermediate-level waste that can remain toxic for more than 100,000 years. Ontario Power Generation has eyed a location for the storage site near Kincardine, Ontario — in an underground limestone rock formation about 55 miles east of Huron County.
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