Lake Huron still preferred nuclear waste site for OPG

Catherine McKenna can keep asking but all she will get are the same non-answers. It is a classic standoff between a first-term minister and a canny bureaucracy. We shall see who blinks first.
In early 2016, Catherine McKenna, the new Liberal environment minister, announced that she wasn't entirely satisfied with the Lake Huron choice. OPG was ordered to investigate other potential locations.
TORONTO—Credit Ontario Power Generation for this: when it comes to choosing a place to store nuclear waste, the Crown corporation is consistent. It wants to bury the stuff beside Lake Huron. Period. And no matter how many times federal regulators ask it to seriously examine other locations, OPG ...

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