{"id":10099,"date":"2013-07-31T11:26:33","date_gmt":"2013-07-31T15:26:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/?p=10099"},"modified":"2013-07-31T11:26:33","modified_gmt":"2013-07-31T15:26:33","slug":"nuclear-power-company-cancels-plans-to-ship-radioactive-material-through-st-lawrence-great-lakes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/2013\/07\/31\/nuclear-power-company-cancels-plans-to-ship-radioactive-material-through-st-lawrence-great-lakes\/","title":{"rendered":"Nuclear power company cancels plans to ship radioactive material through St. Lawrence, Great Lakes"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_10100\" style=\"width: 460px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/files\/2013\/07\/BrucePower.jpg\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-10100\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-large wp-image-10100\" alt=\"Bruce Power, Kincardine, Ont. Photo: Jennifer, Creative Commons, some rights reserved\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/files\/2013\/07\/BrucePower-450x299.jpg\" width=\"450\" height=\"299\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/files\/2013\/07\/BrucePower-450x299.jpg 450w, https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/files\/2013\/07\/BrucePower-150x99.jpg 150w, https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/files\/2013\/07\/BrucePower-300x199.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/files\/2013\/07\/BrucePower.jpg 640w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 450px) 100vw, 450px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-10100\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Bruce Power, Kincardine, Ont. Photo: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/1juniper\/5837256632\/sizes\/z\/in\/photolist-9TPt2J-cMkDqL-cMoN6S-5Ykm8e-3esUac-cNiH6s-29ZqDq-EaAdm-eb8Q6d-c6TF2f-bqezJr\/\">Jennifer<\/a>, Creative Commons, some rights reserved<\/p><\/div>\n<p>An Ontario nuclear power company has scrapped plans to ship radioactive parts through the Great Lakes and St. Lawrence River, at least for now, the CBC and metronews.ca are reporting.<\/p>\n<p>Bruce Power wanted to ship 16 radioactive steam generators to Sweden to be recycled. The Canadian Nuclear Safety Commission issued a license for the shipping in 2011.<\/p>\n<p>But public pressure from aboriginal tribes, the Bloc Quebecois, and environmental groups led Bruce Power to delay.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/metronews.ca\/news\/canada\/750516\/plan-to-ship-radioactive-material-cancelled\/\">According to metronews.ca<\/a>, Bruce Power has decided to put the plan on hold to allow further discussion with First Nations and other groups.<\/p>\n<p>Kahnawake Mohawk Council spokesman<a href=\"http:\/\/www.cbc.ca\/news\/politics\/story\/2013\/07\/28\/montreal-quebec-ontario-great-lakes-bruce-power-st-lawrence-seaway-nuclear.html\"> Joe Delaronde told the CBC<\/a> \u201cwe\u2019re pretty happy they\u2019ve done the right thing here.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An Ontario nuclear power company has scrapped plans to ship radioactive parts through the Great [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10099"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10099"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10099\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10106,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10099\/revisions\/10106"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10099"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10099"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10099"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}