Sarnia's mayor applauds the new Liberal government's decision to push back the deadline for approving a plan to bury nuclear waste near Lake Huron.
The decision will now come by March 1.
Mike Bradley, a vocal opponent of the proposal, says the fact that there are hundreds of cities against it, has certainly got the government's attention.
"I'm pleased with the direction and I would hope that, at the end of this, the minister will say no to this project," says Bradley. "I think the intervention by a number of American senators has had a huge impact on the thinking of the government, recognizing this is a bi-national issue and that they need to listen to those voices before any final decision."
Mayor Bradley says, from the beginning, Ontario Power Generation should have looked at a number of locations rather than picking one and making the science fit that location.
The government was initially supposed to decide by September whether to greenlight the proposed deep geologic repository.
However, the previous Conservative government pushed that back until December after the election.
A $1-billion underground storage bunker near Kincardine has won preliminary approval, but needs a green light from Ottawa.
OPG wants to bury hundreds of thousands of cubic metres of so-called low and intermediate level nuclear waste at the Bruce nuclear power plant about 1 km from the lake.
(With files from the Canadian Press)