News Note: The Great Canadian Nuclear Waste Saga

Feds bury radioactive waste in Manitoba, author says

"The year: 2101.
The place: southeastern Manitoba, Canada.
THE PROBLEM: Canadian and U.S. atomic energy and environment officials are in an emergency meeting in Washington, D.C. to assess the situation and develop evacuation plans for a large region of southern Manitoba, northwest Ontario and northern sections of North Dakota and Minnesota.
  Just one month earlier, when the monitoring devices first detected the increasing levels of radiation, Department of Energy officials in Ottawa had assured the public that the problem was not serious..."

  Sounds like a far-fetched sci-fi thriller? Think again, says Walt Robbins. The Canadian government began burying radioactive waste in a test site in eastern Manitoba in 1980, he says.
  Robbins is the author of "The Great Canadian Nuclear Waste Saga," now online for free viewing and downloading at www.web.net/~robbins.
  In his three-part saga, Robbins shares his personal experiences fighting radioactive burial sites, from the government's underground dump in Manitoba, to the commercialisation of such sites around the world, as wealthier countries dangle money in front of their poorer neighbours to take in their toxic garbage.

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