A 2nd Ontario neighborhood has really formally decided it desires to come back to be the web site of a deep geological database for Canada’s hazardous waste.
The Municipality of South Bruce, located southern of Owen Sound, held a vote inserting the inquiry to its owners and the outcomes launched in the present day reveal they elected 51 % in favour of the proposition.
The Nuclear Waste Management Organization prepares to choose a web site this 12 months the place numerous packages of utilized nuclear fuel will definitely be positioned in a community of basements linked by spacious passages.
The process for the $26-billion job has really at present been restricted to 2 web sites, Ignace in north Ontario and South Bruce, and the corporate has really acknowledged each the regional neighborhood and the First Nation in these areas will definitely want to simply accept be hosts.
Ignace, in between Thunder Bay and Kenora, in July ended up being the very first neighborhood to make its alternative acknowledged, as neighborhood council enacted favour of a hazardous waste database at an distinctive convention.
Attention at present will definitely rework to Wabigoon Lake Ojibway Nation in north Ontario and Saugeen Ojibway Nation, to see in the event that they share the very same need as Ignace and South Bruce.
This file by The Canadian Press was very first releasedOct 28, 2024.
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