Lawmakers ask State to fight nuclear disposal plan

A bipartisan group of lawmakers from Great Lakes states wrote to Secretary of State Rex Tillerson on Tuesday, urging him to stop the Canadian plan to build a nuclear waste repository less than a mile from Lake Huron in Ontario. The letter – led by Michigan Reps. Debbie Dingell, D-Dearborn, and Dave Trott, R-Birmingham – follows a report last week by Ontario Power Generation supporting its plan for an underground storage facility for low- to mid-level nuclear waste near Kincardine, Ontario. The company has sought approval for the project for more than a decade. In addition to Dingell and Trott, Michigan lawmakers who signed the letter include Republican Reps. Fred Upton of St. Joseph, Bill Huizenga of Zeeland, Tim Walberg of Tipton, John Moolenaar of Midland, Mike Bishop of Rochester, Paul Mitchell of Dryden and Jack Bergman of Watersmeet, as well as Democratic Reps. John Conyers Jr. of Detroit, Sander Levin of Royal Oak, Dan Kildee of Flint Township and Brenda Lawrence of Southfield. Rep. Justin Amash, R-Cascade Township, did not join.