Voting begins in historic nuclear waste referendum in South Bruce [Video]

Voting is now underway in the most important vote in the Municipality of South Bruce’s history.

“I’m really trying to encourage my neighbors to get out and vote on it because this is the kind of opportunity that comes by – you know, only once, right?” said Mildmay area resident, Tony Zettel.

Zettel will be voting in favour of a proposed plan by the Nuclear Waste Management Organization that would see an estimated 6.1 million used nuclear fuel bundles buried in a massive underground facility north of Teeswater.

Example of a used nuclear fuel bundle, Oakville, June 2024 (Scott Miller/CTV News London)

“It’s just mind boggling to me that you would have an experiment like that, where we are repackaging nuclear waste, and we’re not exactly sure what everything is going to be like, because there’s so many unknowns,” said Teeswater area farmer, Anja Van der Vlies.

Residents started voting …