Michigan Congressional Delegation Lobbies new Canadian Prime Minister on Nuclear Waste Dump

Some members of Michigan’s congressional delegation are hoping a change in leadership following Canada’s election last week could quell plans for a nuclear waste site less than a mile from Lake Huron.

U.S. Congressman Dan Kildee, D-Flint, and Michigan’s two U.S. senators, have sent a letter to new Prime Minster Justin Trudeau asking him to reconsider the site.

He says Canada doesn’t have to alter its plans for nuclear energy but Kildee says the country should look somewhere else, anywhere else, to store nuclear waste.

Kildee says Trudeau didn’t take a stance on the site prior to the election but has said he values the Great Lakes.

A final decision is expected sometime next month or early next year.