At a public meeting in Port Hope, Ontario, on July 16 2004, Gordon Edwards addressed local townspeople about the implications of handling enriched uranium instead of natural, unenriched uranium, at Cameco’s uranium conversion facility located just one block from the downtown Port Hope, on a site adjacent to Lake Ontario, the Kamaraska River, and the town’s harbour and marina. Public opposition to this plan grew to such an extent that Cameco was forced to abandon its proposal to import enriched uranium.