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Millions of Ontarians are vulnerable to a nuclear accident because of government negligence, and that includes you.<\/p>\n
With major nuclear accidents happening about once every decade internationally, you\u2019d think it would be common sense for the Ontario government to plan for worst-case nuclear accidents like Fukushima.<\/p>\n
But they\u2019re not.<\/p>\n
It\u2019s easy (and perhaps more comforting) to forget, but over 20 aging nuclear reactors line the shores of the Great Lakes.<\/strong><\/p>\n More than half of Ontarians live near one or more of these, and could be harmed in a nuclear emergency.<\/p>\n Worse still, these aging nuclear plants threaten our drinking water.<\/strong><\/p>\n Six years after the Fukushima disaster began, the damaged reactors continue to leak radioactivity into the Pacific Ocean, contaminating aquatic ecosystems and food supplies.<\/p>\n A similar accident at a reactor on the Great Lakes could be much worse. Radioactivity could contaminate the drinking water of forty million Canadians and Americans.<\/p>\n Despite this, Ontario hasn\u2019t even considered how to protect our drinking water in the event of a nuclear accident.<\/p>\n One thing\u2019s clear: Ontario has learned nothing from Fukushima.<\/p>\n In response to the substantial human suffering caused by Fukushima, a number of countries have decided to eliminate nuclear risks altogether by closing their nuclear plants.<\/p>\n And since Fukushima, more and more communities are pledging to go 100% renewable to fight climate change, empower their communities, and eliminate nuclear risks.<\/p>\n But in Ontario, the Wynne government has approved spending billions to keep all of the province\u2019s aging reactors on life support instead of investing in renewables.<\/p>\n Worse yet, they\u2019ve done nothing to protect us from the risks these aging reactors pose to Ontario.<\/p>\n The Wynne government is being not just negligent, but reckless in not planning for major nuclear accidents when half of Ontario lives in the shadow of a nuclear station.<\/p>\n Please join us and speak out against nuclear risks across the Great Lakes.<\/p>\n