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Waterkeeper Investigation - Port Hope

Port Hope has a long history with nuclear waste. Remnants of uranium from refining days dating back to 1932 can be found in its radioactive soil. When nuclear energy flourished in the 1970s, the Port Hope area became a storage site for radioactive waste – stored around the town and on its shores, on Lake Ontario. Today, high levels of contamination can be found in certain areas. As an effort to clean up the waste, the Port Hope Area Initiative (PHAI) was approved at a cost of $1.28 billion and is projected to be the largest environmental cleanup effort in Canada's history. But if this cleanup is so significant, why isn't it widely discussed and why is data not easily accessible? On November 9, the Canadian Nuclear Safety Commission is holding a public hearing for the re-licensing of Cameco's conversion facility. And on November 10, the CNSC is holding another public hearing regarding the storage of the low-level radioactive waste (PHAI). Waterkeeper will present our concerns at both hearings with the goal of protecting swimmable drinkable fishable water for the Port Hope area and Lake Ontario. Here is a brief overview for this very multilayered issue.