Hot spin?

Yesterday Hot Shit Minister for Natural Resources Lisa "I bathe in Evian" Raitt told the opposition in the House of Commons that the CNSC had assured her that the radiation was linked to medical isotopes and had nothing to do with a Dec. 5 leak at the Chalk River nuclear plant 185 kilometres northwest of Ottawa. That nuclear facility is located upstream of the Ottawa River.

From the CBC:

The sludge that was recently quarantined near the Canadian border tested positive for radiation because of the presence of a medical isotope, according to the Canadian Nuclear Safety Commission. ...

Since then, the sludge has been stored at Third High Farms, a waste storage facility in Iroquois, Ont., and consultants have been called in to investigate. The culprit appears to be the isotope iodine 131. The CNSC has said the isotope, which is used for medical procedures, is most likely the source of the radiation detected in the sludge.

More information here.

Still, nowhere does it say if truckloads of biosolids have been refused entry to the US previously, because of radioactive levels. Presumably, iodine 131 has been flushed consistently into the sewage system for decades now. What caused the recent spike?

Behold the Stephen Harper Excrematorium.

Isolated biosolids discarded by the city of Ottawa’s water treatment facility have been refused entry into the US for disposal because they were found to be radioactive.

More here. I'm betting that Lisa Raitt has been drinking and bathing in bottled water since December.

How to go about suggesting that the nation’s capital raw sewage treatment plant be re-named the Stephen Harper Excrematorium …?

Update: Make that the Stephen J Harper Excrematorium. That J. adds gravitas, don't you think? The Ottawa Citizen has more today.

eh. The city is hiring a "nuclear sleuth", a Toronto expert on radiation.

I'm still betting on Hot Shit Minister (thanks pseudz!) for Natural Resources Lisa "I bathe in Evian" Raitt to stage a diversion away from the Chalk River facility.

"Over there!!! Look!!! A shiny, radiating, terrist object!!!"

Further update: Hot Shit Minister for Natural Resources Lisa "I bathe in Evian" Raitt scolded the opposition for creating public panic when she was asked whether there was a connection between the radioactive biosolids produced by the Stephen J Harper Excrematorium and leaks reported at the nuclear reactor. She said "there is almost certainly no connection between radioactive sludge in Ottawa and a reactor leak at Chalk River some 200 kilometres upriver." Almost certainly no connection ... And she hammered the point home by adding: How do I know? The Bible Canadian Nuclear Safety Commission tells me so.

Wow, I feel so much better already.

Grand merci to J.A.Baker for the idea.