SGP Post Election Outlook
Fellow Greens,
This election has heightened even further the urgent need for Green legislation and Green legislators for Saskatchewan. The Chernobyl nuclear disaster on April 26, 1986, terrible as it was, could have been much, much worse. Remarkably, despite this event as well as the Fukushima and Three Mile Island accidents, the pro-nuclear SaskParty is following the lead of those who would say that it’s possible to guarantee that these types of accidents (and worse) will never happen again. The truth of the matter is that it’s pretty much guaranteed that worse will come to pass, especially when dealing with waste products that remain toxic for tens of thousands of years, products whose long-term storage problems are far from sorting out.
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