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Peel Region and the City of Brampton have serious problems that need public attention.

Reply #1 Coalition for a Nuclear Free Peel (70.49.159.207) -

Excellent Article from The Brampton Bulletin, Friday

August 19/05

Residents, businesses to meet on proposed incinerator

By Linda Erskine

The fight to stop the expansion of a scrap metal

recycling plant on Sun Pac Boulevard in Brampton has

just gathered more steam, as two Brampton councilors

joined area residents and businesses in opposing the

creation of a low-level nuclear waste incinerator.

Concerned residents and business owners are urged to

attend an update meeting on August 25.

Wards 9 and 10 councillors John Sprovieri and Garnett

Manning have pledged their support in trying to stop

the incinerator plan, and Councillor Manning's office

has confirmed that he will attend the August 25

meeting.

The meeting will take place at the Chandni Banquet

Hall (125 Chrysler Dr.) at 7 p.m.

Mississauga Metals and Alloys (formerly Dave's Scrap

Metal and Iron) plans to apply for a re-zoning to

allow for a 35,000-sq. ft. expansion and the creation

of a low-level nuclear waste incinerator for wood,

clothing and cardboard products exposed to low levels

radioactivity.

Dora Jeffries of the Coalition for Nuclear Waste-Free

Peel is pleased with the response from the City of

Brampton and for councilors Sprovieri's and Manning's

commitment to the cause. "They are just as concerned

with the expansion as we are," she noted, adding that

area businesses have already sent letters of concern

to Brampton City Hall as far back as September of last

year.

"Acroturn Industries Inc. (155 Sun Pac Drive) sent a

letter to the councilors, to Mayor Fennell and to

Ontario Premier Dalton McGuinty about this expansion

to voice their concern over the expansion. They were

appalled that Mississauga Metals and Alloys may get a

licence for this, especially considering they find the

company to be a discourteous neighbour," said

Jeffries. According to Jeffries, the letter went onto

say that despite a M-4 zoning (limiting outside

storage), the metal recycling plant continued to store

material, often flammable, in the yard.

Acroturn Industries offers machining services to the

mold, aircraft and aerospace industries.

Another neighbouring business is also concerned about

the potential for an accident and the lack of an

evacuation route for residents and employees should an

accident occur, a concern the company expressed in a

July 4, 2005 letter to city council.

In order to gain approval for the incinerator,

Mississauga Metals must first undergo an environmental

assessment from the Canadian Nuclear Safety

Commission. Company president David Sharpe explained

that the facility will be safeguarded through

state-of-the-art environmental protection measures and

indicated that there will be no long-term storage of

nuclear material at the facility. However, Jeffries is

concerned that the environmental assessment is a

self-guided one, and not conducted by a third party.

"Whether Brampton becomes the centre for nuclear

recycling should not be left up to an individual

company, but should be a decision made by city council

and the Ontario government," said Jeffries. The good

news, she noted, is that the company would still

undergo an assessment by the Ontario government.

There are three radioactive incinerators in Canada

licensed by the CNSC, confirmed Susan Measor,

Environmental Assessment Specialist with the CNSC

Processing Facilities and Technical Support based in

Ottawa.

They are:

the OPG Western Waste Management

Facility,

the Cameco Blind River Refinery and

the

Cameco Port Hope Conversion Facility.

According to Measor, all stack releases are monitored

for conventional (non-radioactive) and radioactive

emissions and are routinely inspected by CNSC

inspectors. Daily monitoring, however, is the

responsibility of the individual facility. Annual test

stacks, completed by a third party are in compliance

with regulations set by the provincial Ministry of the

Environment, confirmed Measor.

For information on the Mississauga Metal and Alloy

proposal, contact David Sharpe at 905-790-0796 or

davidsharpe@mm-a-.com.

To reach the Coalition for a Nuclear Waste-Free Peel,

call 905-451-3569 or visit http://www.nukefreepeel.org. A

copy of the online petition is now available.

The Canadian Nuclear Safety Commission can be reached

at 1-800-668-5284 or ceaainfo@cnsc-ccsn.gc.ca.

• Mississauga Metals & Alloys Nuclear Incinerator info

Reply #2 retired 905 area code GTA Councillor Robert Heaton (70.49.164.111) -

We attended a public “Open House” held by Mississauga Metals & Alloys (MM&A), the company proposing to build the incinerator.

We were dissatisfied with the materials presented and alarmed by the information we received.

We learned that the proposed incinerator would burn up to 250 pounds of radioactive waste an hour.

This waste would be imported from across Canada, the United States and possibly Europe. The radioactive material would arrive at the MM&A (Mississauga Metals and Alloys) by truck, through our densely populated area and on our congested roads.

Then, the radioactive ash produced by the incinerator would be trucked out of our community.

• Coalition for a Nuclear Free Peel : Nuclear Incinerator

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