Sask Nuclear Waste Depot? Not on My Watch!

According to a report by CBC Saskatchewan, the Nuclear Waste Management Organization states that Provinces involved in the nuclear industry should be involved in the disposal of nuclear wastes. I agree, Ontario and Quebec, having chosen to use nuclear power plants should take the responsibility of dealing with the wastes. Where I get pissed off is the idea that Saskatchewan should be used as a dumping ground of nuclear wastes just because the uranium is mined here. This is insane. I buy food from the grocery store. I eat the food. There is a dangerous waste product produced, called crap. Now I bought the food at the store, does this meant that I can go take a dump in the middle of the produce aisle at Sobey's? I don't think so. If a province chooses to buy uranium from a Saskatchewan company for the purposes of nuclear power, they are agreing to deal with their own waste in their own backyard. The report quotes Saskatchewan Industry and Resources Minister Eric Cline as saying that the province should be "a part of the solution". Northern Saskatchewan is named as a potential site for spent nuclear fuel, which is bad enough, but "even Regina, Saskatoon, and other urban areas shouldn't be ruled out". Pardon me? Will the new Regina slogan be "I Love Regina...it glows at night"? Minister Cline needs to get his head out of his behind and strongly emphatically say that the only nuclear waste that will ever be dumped in Saskatchewan will be if and when Saskatchewan ever has it's own nuclear reactor. Period. And further more, why have the opposition parties not made any comments? Is a front-bench cabinet minister saying that he is considering dumping nuclear waste in the province not a big fat juicy target? The Sask Party and Sask Liberals should be salivating like a fat kid at a perogie buffet over this.