Wendy O'Connor
Wendy O'Connor is a Canadian, known for voicing an opinion over measures to counter the Covid 19 virus, and suggested measures to store the waste from Nuclear reactors.[1]
Like her parents and brother O'Connor became a farmer in southern Ontario.[2] Most of the people living in Ontario live in triangular area that lies south a line between Barrie, Ontario and Peterborough, Ontario. Glaciers scraped good soil from the areas north of that line, leaving the area south of that line ideal for farming. Most of the area north of that line is either marshy, or has outcroppings of bedrock. However, one of the small pockets of land suitable for farming lies near Thunder Bay, Ontario, and O'Connor and her husband started farming there, around 2005.
In April of 2020 the CBC News quoted O'Connor asserting that one positive consequence over the concern over the Covid 19 virus is that it increased interest among the general public in growing their own food, in their own gardens.[1]
In September of 2022 the Chronicle Journal published an opinion by O'Connor on the disposal of nuclear waste.[3] She asserted that the waste from proposed small reactors would be more dangerous than the waste from Canada's existing CANDU reactors.
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Gardener says pandemic has increased interest in backyard gardening in northwestern Ontario, CBC News, 2020-04-20. Retrieved on 2022-09-04. “O'Connor said initially, she was not optimistic about what the pandemic was going to do to local agriculture gardening. However, O'Connor now believes it has many people looking at their backyards as a potential source of both comfort and sustainable food.”
- ↑ How did I find myself in the Thunder Bay area growing vegetables?, Bear Haven. Retrieved on 2022-09-04.
- ↑ Nuclear is beyond ability to manage, Chronicle Journal. Retrieved on 2022-09-04.