Letter to the Editor:

Adaptability

Key Word for 2022 and beyond:  Adaptability

COVID has taught us some aspects of the theme, Adapt. 

We now see climate sequences ramping up. Adapt!

Living in a boreal forest; large fires make me nervous.  How do I adapt?

Another concern: highway closures with bridges washed out. 

Adapting....

Biggest concern, long term; the Nuclear Industry’s “Canada’s plan” (as they like to word it for public consumption; propaganda) to bury extremely long-term toxic nuclear waste, from sites across Canada, and very likely from around the world, into our back yard, and deep into our watershed, no less!

Deep into the rock. A rock vulnerable to regular tremors and even prone to earthquakes; Another aspect, one of many aspects, that makes this proposal extremely dangerous.

I wonder, on a larger than individual, or family size, say community size, municipal “strength of funds available” size, and even on to the provincial and federal levels, whether action is needed promptly with the utmost attention and intention to STOP this proposal, with its slick propaganda (“Canada’s Plan”) advertising, in its well-funded contaminating tracks!

The anacronym NWMO, (stands, ironically, for Nuclear Waste Management Organization) logistically happens, in my opinion, to be too closely named similarly to NWO (presently used as an acronym for describing Ontario’s NorthWest), to be used anymore. 

I’m suggesting changing the letters around to form “NOW” (North Ontario West).

Not anymore NWO, but NOW!

NO NUCLEAR FUEL transferred here!

Not NOW or anytime, anywhere in the future!

Michael Quince,

citizen living in NOW