"Ontario's most modern approach to serious industrial pollution"
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Every day, scientists worry about the structural basis for removal of adenine mispaired with 8-oxoguanine by MutY adenine DNA glycosylase. We skip that stuff.
Thursday April 1, 2004
Toxic waste spills at the nuclear plant? Sssshhh! That's secret!
When dozens of dead loons and cormorants, many more dead fish and even a couple of dead deer showed up on the beach of Lake Huron outside Kincardine, Ont., area resident Jennifer Heisz wondered whether the nearby Bruce nuclear plant could be involved.
She asked Ontario's Environment Ministry: Has the plant released any chemical waste improperly? Yes, says the ministry website. But officials refused to tell her anything - even the dates of spills, or the quantities - without a formal access to information request.
She made such a request - and received first a demand for $4,995 in research fees that she can't afford, then after 14 months of complicated bureaucratic wrangling, a flat refusal to answer her main points. The environment ministry even tried telling Ms Heisz the stunning news that she herself didn't really want answers to her own questions.
A second stunner, delivered in writing: They won't give her some of the information through the access request because it is supposed to be publicly available (see accompanying PDF).
Yet they still billed her $315 in February, promising "partial" information. She paid, but hasn't received anything. That's Ontario's most modern approach to serious industrial pollution.
Don't ask, don't tell.