County of Lambton staff have been directed to invite representatives from the Canadian Coalition for Nuclear Responsibility (CCNR) to a future council meeting.
County council supported St. Clair Township Mayor Steve Arnold's call at its meeting in Wyoming Wednesday.
Arnold says they need more information regarding the groups concerns on the planned transportation of highly radioactive waste from Chalk River, Ontario to the United States.
"We haven't heard anything about this hazardous nuclear waste out of the Chalk River area possibly coming down through our communities," says Arnold. "I think it's only fair that we are in the loop, so that we understand what is going on. We understand the potential risks, we understand how things are going to be transported."
CCNR President Gordon Edwards, in a email to Blackburn News Wednesday afternoon, said the 100-150 shipments of high-level liquid radioactive waste from Chalk River to the Savannah River Site in South Carolina have been been postponed as a result of a lawsuit filed in US federal court.
He says there will be no such shipments taking place before February 2017.
In a previous interview with Blackburn News, Edwards said in order to get to the U.S., you have to cross the Blue Water Bridge or some other bridge somewhere and If there is a serious accident or spill, the material could be easily dispersed into the waters of the Great Lakes.
-With files from Lee Michaels
