THEREFORE BE IT RESOLVED that Great Lakes United opposes setting the precedent of shipping radioactive waste metals and materials on the Great Lakes and St. Lawrence River.

THEREFORE BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that Great Lakes United firmly opposes the shipping of any hazardous material in ice conditions;

THEREFORE BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that Great Lakes United strongly recommends that the following conditions be met as it pertains to the movement of hazardous cargo on the Great Lakes and St. Lawrence River:
--An annual plan requiring routine joint binational federal, state and provincial spill drills/preparedness exercise in real-time scenarios and at varying times of year is in place and properly funded
--Thorough, independent assessment of equipment and personnel available to respond/contain/clean-up a spill (of any type and at any time of year) on the Great Lakes and St. Lawrence
--Improvements to cross-border coordination and communication.
--A system is in place and operational providing advance notification of local responders e.g. county/local emergency and/or fire departments when hazardous or nuclear materials transported through their communities via waterway
--Annual, public reporting of hazardous materials shipped via the seaway (materials and volume).