actually, considering the climate of blanket acceptance and the spectre of sociopathic luddism lobbed at any who'd, as you do, dare point at incontrovertible geo-logical facts, I have been taking Myx's advice to heart, and through isotope teleportation transmolecularzation plan to get us off this planet at the earliest opportunity. If we have seats available, I'll let you know.

While the decision itself does seem a little like a post-dated cheque drawn on a failing bank, the Bible does say this Earth is cursed, so I guess its no real surprise after all. The Tibetian Bardo Thodol too tells us that of all the purgatoric options available for our reincarnations, at all costs and by any means you can muster do not get yourself born in the 'West'!

Slowly, we begin to see why.

A reporter asked Mahatma Gandhi what he thought of 'Western Civilization'.
"I think it would be a good idea," he said.

I actually had to read my de-RTF'd decoding of the javascript-guarded minutes twice to find this, and even then had to use my search function to locate it because it zipped by so fast. Also, to be fair, I don't think it constitutes any official active council endorsement ... yet. Does it? At this point, it rates only as a 'recommendation' arrived at after a short fist fight, or something slipped over as not too worthy of elaboration like that:

10. OPG/MAYOR GILBERT
Subsequent to discussion, Committee recommended as follows:
Recommendation: THAT the Town support the deep geological repository project which is being proposed by Ontario Power Generation.
[ Council Minutes: May 17, 2007 ]

Heck, why keep it so far away? Why not bury it under the stone tile bulls-eyes outside our fancy new Sixth Street washrooms? That way we can encourage plant growth, irradiate the cigarette butts and cash in on encouraging nuclear proliferation all at the same time!

bet it would be a real tourist draw too. we could go with a cool retro Bikini-Atoll motif!

Then again, maybe there's hope, and this hope was handed to us, given freely by Nature, funny enough, the last thing to escape from the bottom of the Pandora's Box of Chernobyl: in the wake of the disaster, there at ground zero, all over the place, and thriving, an ugly black mould like the stuff that infests your shower curtain, blackened by the melanin it cunningly uses to consume not the radioactive material, but the actual radiation itself ...

Dadachova, Casadevall and their colleagues tested how three different species of fungus respond to beta-radiation from caesium-137, which is produced during nuclear fission of uranium and plutonium. They found that all three, Cladosporium sphaerospermum, Cryptococcus neoformans and Wangiella dermatitidis, grow faster in the isotope's presence. ...
Some fungi can decompose radioactive material such as the hot graphite in the remains of the Chernobyl reactor. Previous studies have shown that most fungi found in contaminated regions grow towards various different radiation sources, as if trying to reach these compounds
[ Hungry fungi chomp on radiation ]

Of course, we kai-ju fans have known about 'radiovores' for a long time; giant monster creatures that feed directly on high-energy light sources, especially the gamma-rays and other energetic photons endemic to nuclear plants and test sites, have been the bane of the Japanese people for over 50 years, and have spelled boom-time for the developers and construction companies who labour long hours continually rebuilding the Tokyo television tower so that tourists will not notice the most recent devestation.

But it is maybe worth a lesson learned there how while the radiovore moulds may save the skin of OPG decontaminating their little oopsies before the geology gives out, the Japanese would be the first to tell us that maybe its not such a good idea to be standing in the cosmic jungle and screaming out for a hungry radiovore ...