Nuclear waste vote in South Bruce becomes official [Video]

Despite a difference of less than 100 votes, there will not be a recount in the Municipality of South Bruce, after councillors decided to unanimously accept the community’s nuclear waste referendum results

“With the electronic voting, it’s the hitting of a button and it spits the results out. So, I mean, I think there was a 78 vote-spread between yes and no. I don’t know in the history of elections, that has ever been overturned with that far of a spread,” said South Bruce Mayor, Mark Goetz.

Late last month, 1,604 South Bruce residents voted in favour of the rural community hosting Canada’s first permanent underground nuclear waste storage facility. Voting against the idea were 1,526 residents.

Some residents who voted ‘no’ wanted a recount, but that plan has been abandoned following Tuesday night’s council decision. The fight to stop the project, however, will not stop, they say.

“We could look at legal ramifications of the agreement itself, and we most likely will do …