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TORONTO, May 30 /CNW/ - The City of Toronto, Toronto Police

Service and

its emergency response partners will conduct a marine exercise on Lake

Ontario

to practice plans that may be deployed should there ever be a nuclear

incident

at the Pickering Nuclear Generating Station. This exercise will take

place at

Bluffers Park in Toronto and provides an opportunity to test and

evaluate

procedures to set up an Emergency Worker and Marine Evacuee Centre

that may be

required during a nuclear emergency.

 

 

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The participants and contributors to the exercise include:

- Toronto Police Service

- City of Toronto and its agencies

- Peel Regional Police Marine & Dive Unit

- Marine Security Enforcement Team (joint team with RCMP and

Canadian

Coast Guard)

- Durham Regional Police Marine Unit

- Ontario Power Generation

 

 

Date: May 31, 2007

Time: exercise 10 a.m. - noon

Location: Lake Ontario and at Bluffer's Park Marina

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Toronto is Canada's largest city and sixth largest government, and

home

to a diverse population of about 2.6 million people. It is the

economic engine

of Canada and one of the greenest and most creative cities in North

America.

In the past three years Toronto has won more than 50 awards for

quality and

innovation in delivering public services. Toronto's government is

dedicated to

prosperity, opportunity and liveability for all its residents.

This exercise is supported with funding from the Joint Emergency

Preparedness Program (JEPP). JEPP is administered by Public Safety

Canada.

 

 

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Visit our website at www.toronto.ca

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For further information: Media contact: Warren Leonard, Manager,

Office

of Emergency Management, (416) 392-4554; Rob Andrusevich, Strategic

Communications, City of Toronto, (416) 397-4149, cell (416) 200-3660