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Protest (Highly-Radioactive) Nuclear Waste Shipments!

May 19, 2017 @ 2:00 pm - 3:00 pm EDT

About 6M Gallons of HIGHLY Radioactive liquid Nuclear Waste are going over the Peace Bridge approx every 2 weeks for the next 4 years! The environmental risks are huge!! One quart of this highly radioactive liquid is enough to destroy the water supply of any North American city. Join us at Front Park (by the tennis courts), Buffalo NY to protest. (Enter Front Park from Porter Ave; Front Park entrance is just before traffic circle.)

According to Canadian nuclear expert Dr. Gordon Edwards, 23,000 liters (6,100 gal.) of highly radioactive liquid waste are being transported over the Peace Bridge from Ontario to a processing plant in South Carolina.  100 to 150 truckloads are to be shipped over the next  four years — an average of 1 very 2 weeks. The first shipment was completed in April.

If the processing of nuclear waste had been carried out on-site in Canada, as originally planned, these shipments of radioactive liquid over public roads and bridges could have been avoided altogether.

It is still not too late to do this.  There’s no need to transport these materials through hundreds of communities (both Canadian and American).  We should not endanger the Great Lakes and other sources of drinking water in NY, PA, OH, VA, NC, and SC.

Please bring signs….Sponsors: Environmental Justice Taskforce of the WNY Peace Center; and WNY Drilling Defense

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Date:
May 19, 2017
Time:
2:00 pm - 3:00 pm EDT

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