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Attachment Groundwater Protection, Private Well Reliance, and Unorganized Territory Impacts in Melgund Township

  • Deep Geological Repository (DGR) for Canada's Used Nuclear Fuel Project
  • Author: Melgund Recreation, Arts and Culture
  • Reference Number: 761
  • Submitted: 2026-04-25 - 12:01 AM
  • Project Phase: Planning
  • Participation Notice: Public Notice - Comments invited and information sessions on the draft Integrated Tailored Impact Statement Guidelines and draft Public Participation Plan
  • This submission is informed by extensive comments and feedback collected from community members and local area residents living in the closest proximity to the proposed Deep Geological Repository (DGR) site. These perspectives were gathered during a series of public information sessions organized by Melgund Recreation, Arts and Culture, hosted by the Local Services Board of Melgund and community members from April 20-24, 2026.  These engagement efforts were made possible through support from the IAAC Participant Funding Program, ensuring that the specific concerns of the unorganized communities and local peoples living closest to the site—often overlooked in regional planning—are directly integrated into the federal impact assessment process. Context and Infrastructure Vulnerability This submission provides a detailed assessment of the Draft Tailored Impact Statement Guidelines (DTISG) as they pertain to communities and local peoples in ...

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Attachment Dubious claim of “submission is submitted by and on behalf of residents in Melgund Township and local peoples” by Melgund Recreation, Arts and Culture.

  • Deep Geological Repository (DGR) for Canada's Used Nuclear Fuel Project
  • Author: Jaro Franta
  • Reference Number: 760
  • Submitted: 2026-04-24 - 7:44 PM
  • Project Phase: Planning
  • Participation Notice: Public Notice - Comments invited and information sessions on the draft Integrated Tailored Impact Statement Guidelines and draft Public Participation Plan
  • The authors, Melgund Recreation, Arts and Culture, make the dubious claim that their “submission is submitted by and on behalf of residents in Melgund Township and local peoples”. However, the IAAC and its Tailored Impact Statement Guidelines (TISG) should be made aware that Melgund Township never held any sort of vote on NWMO’s proposed DGR project at the Revell site, and that therefore any claim by Melgund Recreation, Arts and Culture of a “submission is submitted by and on behalf of residents in Melgund Township and local peoples” must be seen as a bogus attempt at achieving a nonexistent public representation. As a matter of fact, a resident of Dyment (a hamlet in Melgund Township) who is a steadfast opponent of the DGR project, proclaimed in no uncertain terms that “most of the people here are for it”
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  • Dubious claim of “submission is submitted by and on behalf of residents in Melgund Township and local peoples” by Melgund Recreation, Arts and Culture. Comments on IAAC’s Draft Integrated Tailored Impact Statement Guidelines, ref. #166000E Jaro Franta, 24 April 2026 Thanks to the Impact Assessment Agency of Canada and the Canadian Nuclear Safety Commission for inviting comments on the Draft Integrated Tailored Impact Statement Guidelines for the Deep Geological Repository for Canada’s Used Nuclear Fuel Project, proposed by the Nuclear Waste Management Organization (the NWMO). On April 10 IAAC published their Draft Integrated Tailored Impact Statement Guidelines for the Deep Geological Repository for Canada’s Used Nuclear Fuel Project https://iaac-aeic.gc.ca/050/documents/p88774/166000E.pdf Since then, several comments have been submitted to the IAAC registry. Among them is registry submission Reference Number 759, authored by Melgund Recreation, ...

Attachment Structural Exclusion of Proximate Communities and Deficiencies in Valued Component and Baseline Development

  • Deep Geological Repository (DGR) for Canada's Used Nuclear Fuel Project
  • Author: Melgund Recreation, Arts and Culture
  • Reference Number: 759
  • Submitted: 2026-04-24 - 4:07 PM
  • Project Phase: Planning
  • Participation Notice: Public Notice - Comments invited and information sessions on the draft Integrated Tailored Impact Statement Guidelines and draft Public Participation Plan
  • The Draft Tailored Impact Statement Guidelines (TISG) currently utilize discretionary language in Line 1276, stating that the Proponent “should” work with identified communities and local peoples. This framing is insufficient to ensure methodological consistency, accountability, and meaningful participation under Section 11 of the Impact Assessment Act (2019), particularly for communities in closest proximity to the proposed Revell site. This submission is submitted by and on behalf of residents in Melgund Township and local peoples residing in the immediate vicinity of the proposed Deep Geological Repository (DGR) site at Revell. As the individuals and communities in closest physical and ecological proximity to the project’s primary footprint, these parties bear the highest degree of environmental, health, and psychosocial risk. The purpose of this submission is to identify critical ...

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Attachment Integration of Monarch Butterfly Residence Protections into Vegetation, Wetland, and Community Collaboration Mandates

  • Deep Geological Repository (DGR) for Canada's Used Nuclear Fuel Project
  • Author: Art Borups Corners
  • Reference Number: 758
  • Submitted: 2026-04-24 - 12:23 PM
  • Project Phase: Planning
  • Participation Notice: Public Notice - Comments invited and information sessions on the draft Integrated Tailored Impact Statement Guidelines and draft Public Participation Plan
  • PROJECT: Deep Geological Repository for Canada’s Used Nuclear Fuel (Revell Site) REFERENCE: IAAC Project 88774 SUBJECT: Integration of Monarch Butterfly Residence Protections into Vegetation, Wetland, and Community Collaboration Mandates We respectfully submit this formal intervention regarding the Draft Integrated Tailored Impact Statement Guidelines for the Deep Geological Repository for Canada’s Used Nuclear Fuel (88774) at the Revell Site. This submission identifies what we believe are material gaps in the treatment of species at risk under the Species at Risk Act (SARA), specifically in relation to the Monarch butterfly and its obligate dependence on milkweed (Asclepias spp.). The ...

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Attachment questions and thoughts regarding the proposed DGR

  • Deep Geological Repository (DGR) for Canada's Used Nuclear Fuel Project
  • Author: Paul Filteau
  • Reference Number: 757
  • Submitted: 2026-04-23 - 6:28 PM
  • Project Phase: Planning
  • Participation Notice: Public Notice - Comments invited and information sessions on the draft Integrated Tailored Impact Statement Guidelines and draft Public Participation Plan
  • The following are questions and some thoughts I have regarding the proposed DGR? Once emplaced is this waste retrievable? The examples of Asse II and WIPP indicate significant problems with the burial of underground radioactive waste. The Onkalo DGR has a ramp to retrieve waste if something does go wrong however the Revel DGR is using a shaft which can be lost by shifting ground, mechanical failure, human sabotage or terrorism capture. How will mining out caverns in a deep nuclear repository affect the stability of the surrounding rock (pluton or batholyth)? Initially the rock would move into the mined out areas then with the heat from the emplaced radioactive used fuel containers, it would move out for approximately 50,000 years (AECL). This in-out movement would introduce fracturing and escape routes for radiation that didn't exist before mining. Pressures introduced would produce rock bursts which would affect the barriers (bentonite clay, copper spraying) ...

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Attachment Full independent review of long distance transportation essential

  • Deep Geological Repository (DGR) for Canada's Used Nuclear Fuel Project
  • Author: Joan Williams
  • Reference Number: 756
  • Submitted: 2026-04-22 - 6:00 PM
  • Project Phase: Planning
  • Participation Notice: Public Notice - Comments invited and information sessions on the draft Integrated Tailored Impact Statement Guidelines and draft Public Participation Plan
  • I wish to comment to the Impact Agency of Canada regarding the requirements of an Impact Statement for the proposed Deep Geological Repository for all of Canada’s Used Nuclear Fuel. There are numerous areas which in my opinion require a great deal more information before a sense of security in this project can be imparted.  In this comment I will focus on the somewhat unclear area of transportation. The Scope of Project needs to include all aspects of transporting the waste, from its existing locations all the way to the DGR site, whether the access roads are under provincial, territorial or federal jurisdiction. It seems contradictory that the whole project is designated for a full federal impact assessment because of the significant adverse federal effects, and yet the waste transportation can be relegated to compliance with road safety rules in provincial ministries. Given that 3 high level nuclear waste laden trucks will be on our roads every day for 50 years, ...

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Attachment nuclear deja vu

  • Deep Geological Repository (DGR) for Canada's Used Nuclear Fuel Project
  • Author: Irena Filteau
  • Reference Number: 754
  • Submitted: 2026-04-21 - 10:06 PM
  • Project Phase: Planning
  • Participation Notice: Public Notice - Comments invited and information sessions on the draft Integrated Tailored Impact Statement Guidelines and draft Public Participation Plan
  •   April 26, 2026 marks the 40th anniversary of the Chenobyl nuclear disaster. It is a nuclear deja vue for me again and again!!! Growing up in Poland in the 1960's in the cold war era, I took part in weekly school exercises to prepare for survival of a nuclear calamity. It was a standard part of our educational curriculum in primary grades to practice military readiness in case of such catastrophe. We had to run with masks on, roll to the ground, wrap ourselves in white sheets and hide under the desks or basements. Lectures focused on what to expect and how to protect ourselves. Pictures of Nagasaki and Hiroshima were vivid and shocking for our young minds. Nightmares of being engulfed by enormous fires were keeping me afraid and awake at night for years. Fast forward to April 26, 1986 while visiting my family in Poland, at 6 months pregnant, the Chernobyl nuclear explosion shocked the world. On this day reactor no 4 of the Chernobyl Nuclear Plant in ...

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Attachment Ignace is not the boss

  • Deep Geological Repository (DGR) for Canada's Used Nuclear Fuel Project
  • Author: myself
  • Reference Number: 753
  • Submitted: 2026-04-21 - 7:59 PM
  • Project Phase: Planning
  • Participation Notice: Public Notice - Comments invited and information sessions on the draft Integrated Tailored Impact Statement Guidelines and draft Public Participation Plan
  • You people seem to think Ignace Ont. is the township to BRIBE!!! Stop wasting our TAX dollars on a NOT wanted landfill in our only prestine part of Ontario that is left. Nuclear power does not even power this end of the province, so we sure as hell do not need your waste from your so called Clean Energy power plants. I do not receive one nickle to protect the water & land that I was born , raised & lived all my life. I am totally discusted with any one in Ignace that would even concider wanting this most dangerous toxin even close to this area! But when BRIBE money can convince a desperate community for the all mighty dollar it is a sad way to try & get votes. I love democracy , just gotta find a place where it matters Go $$$$ Go

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Attachment halt impact assessment of deep geological repository

  • Deep Geological Repository (DGR) for Canada's Used Nuclear Fuel Project
  • Author: Paul Filteau
  • Reference Number: 752
  • Submitted: 2026-04-21 - 5:19 PM
  • Project Phase: Planning
  • Participation Notice: Public Notice - Comments invited and information sessions on the draft Integrated Tailored Impact Statement Guidelines and draft Public Participation Plan
  • The Seaborn Panel (also known as the Seaborn Commission or the Environmental Assessment Review Panel) recommended in its 1998 report that Canada's nuclear waste be managed by an agency at "arm's length" from both the nuclear industry and the government. The government oversight of the nuclear industry should be reorganized to ensure accountability to parliament. The impact assessment of the deep geological repository should be halted until this happens.  The management of Canada's nuclear waste should definitely fall under the Ministry of the Environment including oversight of the Nuclear Waste Management Organization and not by the Minister of Natural Resouces. Promotion should be left to the industry itself. The nuclear ...

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Attachment Nuclear Waste in Northern Ontario

  • Deep Geological Repository (DGR) for Canada's Used Nuclear Fuel Project
  • Author: Private citizen
  • Reference Number: 751
  • Submitted: 2026-04-21 - 3:32 PM
  • Project Phase: Planning
  • Participation Notice: Public Notice - Comments invited and information sessions on the draft Integrated Tailored Impact Statement Guidelines and draft Public Participation Plan
  • Driving nuclear waste over 1000 miles to dump it in Northern Ontario is a bizarre idea. If it is so safe packed in those containers, save the transportation costs and store it where it is. There are too many accidents caused by untrained, incompetent truck drivers on our highways. People are dying and being injured by the illegal licensing practices and incompetent drivers (many of whom can't even read the road signs). Politicians blame it on the roads, but the massive increase in driver-caused accidents began in the Trudeau era, and politicians refuse to admit it. 

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Attachment This submission advocates a study of the metaphysics of nuclear phenomena. This approach recognises the animate nature of the particle population, and the potential we humans have to develop a remedial response to radiation.

  • Deep Geological Repository (DGR) for Canada's Used Nuclear Fuel Project
  • Author: Findhorn Eco-Village, Scotland.
  • Reference Number: 749
  • Submitted: 2026-04-21 - 10:19 AM
  • Project Phase: Planning
  • Participation Notice: Public Notice - Comments invited and information sessions on the draft Integrated Tailored Impact Statement Guidelines and draft Public Participation Plan
  • Thank you NWMO for enabling this forum where civil society can comment on the essential task that you have taken on: namely, to ensure the safe disposal of the radioactive waste from the nuclear reactors which supply electricity for the populations of Eastern Canada. I am moved to contribute to this forum because my experience of working in and around the nuclear industry brought me to see how atomic particles are social and sentient, more than we have so far cared or dared to consider. This then flags up the concept of the Atomic World being as a dimension of Life in itself: a sub-continent, as-it-were, in which the particle population are as the First Nations inhabitants of this dimension downstairs and inside of where and who we are. I came to see this larger picture of the Atomic realm while working ...

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Attachment Continued absence of a formal independent assessment of implications for public health in plans for the proposed project

  • Deep Geological Repository (DGR) for Canada's Used Nuclear Fuel Project
  • Author: International Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War
  • Reference Number: 748
  • Submitted: 2026-04-20 - 5:51 PM
  • Project Phase: Planning
  • Participation Notice: Public Notice - Comments invited and information sessions on the draft Integrated Tailored Impact Statement Guidelines and draft Public Participation Plan
  • Dear Colleagues Attached is our concerns that need to be added to the summary of issues that you have recently published. Our organization continues to offer our expertise to the IAAC process. The issues we raise are serious and appropriate resolution will hlp make this project safer. Sincerely John Guilfoyle . MB BCh BAO FCFP
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  • Concerns Regarding the Summary of Issues prepared by the Impact Assessment Agency of Canada regarding the NWMO Proposal for a Deep Geological Repository for High-Level Nuclear Waste (HLW) Prepared by the International Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War Canada April 18, 2026. The summary of issues has included many of the concerns that we have previously shared with by email, Feb 2, 2026 in response to your call for public comment. We applaud that you have included the challenge of transportation among the issues you have asked the NWMO to address. The summary is silent on the need for an independent public health assessment of this important project. To refresh our concern on this matter, I will repeat, below, what we have previously shared. In addition, we continue to be concerned as to how the amount of waste that will be stored at this facility will be capped at the level that is proposed. Given the accelerating expansion of the nuclear ...
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Attachment deep repository for nuclear waste

  • Deep Geological Repository (DGR) for Canada's Used Nuclear Fuel Project
  • Author: Josefine Singh
  • Reference Number: 747
  • Submitted: 2026-04-20 - 12:19 PM
  • Project Phase: Planning
  • Participation Notice: Public Notice - Comments invited and information sessions on the draft Integrated Tailored Impact Statement Guidelines and draft Public Participation Plan
  • I do not agree that deep repository nuclear waste eliminates the danger of earthmovements and fractions,  earthquakes, thus exposing the dangerous nuclear heat and deadly consequences to the surrounding areas. The transportation of nuclear waste on regular roads that are visited by regular people and cars, is unimaginable, an accident to happen.  The whole area of such an accident will be contaminated with  this radioactivity, and makes live unlivable in this area.  I say no to nuclear and more land to be submitted to human interference here in Canada and elsewhere on this planet!

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Attachment Don't send it here

  • Deep Geological Repository (DGR) for Canada's Used Nuclear Fuel Project
  • Author: Justin Allec
  • Reference Number: 746
  • Submitted: 2026-04-20 - 10:50 AM
  • Project Phase: Planning
  • Participation Notice: Public Notice - Comments invited and information sessions on the draft Integrated Tailored Impact Statement Guidelines and draft Public Participation Plan
  • The fact that this is even being considered is another sign that nobody with any decision making power actually considers the northen parts of this province as wothwhile, another sign that you see the North as empty and therefore, with that same colonial mindset that lets you put pipelines wherever you want, you can fill our backyards with garbage. Shame on all of you. This is going to be a disaster that we'll have to clean up for you.

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Attachment In support!

  • Deep Geological Repository (DGR) for Canada's Used Nuclear Fuel Project
  • Author: Jason Young
  • Reference Number: 744
  • Submitted: 2026-04-15 - 8:49 PM
  • Project Phase: Planning
  • Participation Notice: Public Notice - Comments invited and information sessions on the draft Integrated Tailored Impact Statement Guidelines and draft Public Participation Plan
  • I fully support the Deep Geological Repository (DGR) project for Canada's used nuclear fuel, as proposed by the Nuclear Waste Management Organization (NWMO).  I have confidence in the NWMO's expertise, rigorous safety protocols, and commitment to responsible implementation, ensuring long-term protection for people and the environment.

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Attachment Comments on Draft TISG, PPP, IEPP, Cooperation Plan, and Permitting Plan — Six-Section Analytical Brief"

  • Deep Geological Repository (DGR) for Canada's Used Nuclear Fuel Project
  • Author: ParadigmForge AI Inc.
  • Reference Number: 743
  • Submitted: 2026-04-15 - 3:36 PM
  • Project Phase: Planning
  • Participation Notice: N/A
  • Re: Comments on the Draft Integrated Tailored Impact Statement Guidelines, Draft Public Participation Plan, Draft Indigenous Engagement and Partnership Plan, Draft Permitting Plan, Draft Cooperation Plan, Generic Requirements for the Preparation of an Impact Statement, Technical Considerations and References, and Protocol among IAAC, CNSC and NWMO To the Impact Assessment Agency of Canada, ParadigmForge AI Inc. respectfully submits the attached comment brief on the scoping-stage consultation documents published for the Nuclear Waste Management Organization's proposed Deep Geological Repository (DGR) for Canada's Used Nuclear Fuel. The comment period closes on May 10, 2026. Scope of analysis The attached brief addresses six analytical dimensions: Scoping adequacy of the Draft TISG — whether the guidelines compel NWMO to assess every subject required under IAA s.22(1), the CNSC REGDOC framework, ...
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  • Cover Letter — Comments on Draft Integrated Tailored Impact Statement Guidelines and Related Consultation Documents To: Impact Assessment Agency of Canada Re: Deep Geological Repository for Canada's Used Nuclear Fuel — IAAC Registry Project #88774 Consultation closing: May 10, 2026 Submitter: ParadigmForge AI Inc. Contact: Thomas Conway, Chief Knowledge Systems Architect Email: support@paradigmforge.ai ________________________________________________________________________________ Re: Comments on the Draft Integrated Tailored Impact Statement Guidelines, Draft Public Participation Plan, Draft Indigenous Engagement and Partnership Plan, Draft Permitting Plan, Draft Cooperation Plan, Generic Requirements for the Preparation of an Impact Statement, Technical Considerations and References, and Protocol among IAAC, CNSC and NWMO To the Impact Assessment Agency of Canada, ParadigmForge AI Inc. respectfully submits the attached comment brief on the scoping-stage consultation ...
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Attachment To have or not to have, that’s the dilemma

  • Deep Geological Repository (DGR) for Canada's Used Nuclear Fuel Project
  • Author: Redon Hoxhaj
  • Reference Number: 742
  • Submitted: 2026-04-14 - 2:33 PM
  • Project Phase: Planning
  • Participation Notice: N/A
  • Please pardon my use of the Adapted line from Hamlet, but thought that he was very appropriate in this case. First of all, I would like to declare that there might be some conflict of interest: I work in the Nuclear Medicine industry, which uses radioactive isotopes for the diagnosis and treatment of diseases. Canada is one of the biggest producers of medical isotopes in the world, since the CANDU reactors were invented in our country. Usually, nuclear reactor, typically at an older facility, is repurposed from energy production to that of medical isotopes. Now to speak to the matter at hand: The debate weather nuclear energy should exist, or not, I think has been exhaustively discussed and settled. Alas, one of the aspects of nuclear energy is the waste that it produces, which is very difficult to manage. One of the best solutions is to bury the fuel rods,deep underground, as the layers of soil will act as protective shields from the radiation that is ...

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Attachment Get it done

  • Deep Geological Repository (DGR) for Canada's Used Nuclear Fuel Project
  • Author: William Turner
  • Reference Number: 739
  • Submitted: 2026-04-12 - 8:17 AM
  • Project Phase: Planning
  • Participation Notice: N/A
  • Nuclear energy is by far the safest and cleanest method of power generation currently available. It is also the only method we have with the potential to generate the amount of power we are going to need for the future. We need someplace to store depleted fuel rods and I have to trust the experts that this proposal represents the best available option. I fully support this project with two qualifications. First, the material must remain recoverable. The technology exists to use spent nuclear fuel to produce further energy and some day it will likely become economical to do so. Secondly, there needs to be an ongoing monitoring system to detect radiation in the environment in unlikely event that it finds its way into the environment through some mechanism we don't yet understand.

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Attachment Comment on the Draft Integrated Tailored Impact Statement Guidelines for the Deep Geological Repository for Canada’s Used Nuclear Fuel, April 10, 2026

  • Deep Geological Repository (DGR) for Canada's Used Nuclear Fuel Project
  • Author: Concordia University
  • Reference Number: 738
  • Submitted: 2026-04-12 - 8:07 AM
  • Project Phase: Planning
  • Participation Notice: N/A
  • The April 10 draft package makes an important correction to NWMO’s earlier effort to treat off-site transportation as external to the project. The draft integrated tailored impact statement guidelines now require that “transportation of both nuclear and non-nuclear materials outside of the project site” be included among the project components and activities considered in the Impact Statement, and they state that project-related transportation has the potential to result in adverse effects within areas of federal jurisdiction. That change should be retained in the final guidelines. What the package does not yet do is say clearly enough what follows from that change.
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  • Comment on the Draft Integrated Tailored Impact Statement Guidelines for the Deep Geological Repository for Canada’s Used Nuclear Fuel, April 10, 2026 Dr. Peter C. van Wyck Professor of Communication Studies Concordia University, Montréal April 12, 2026 The April 10 draft package makes an important correction to NWMO’s earlier effort to treat off- site transportation as external to the project. The draft integrated tailored impact statement guidelines now require that “transportation of both nuclear and non-nuclear materials outside of the project site” be included among the project components and activities considered in the Impact Statement, and they state that project-related transportation has the potential to result in adverse effects within areas of federal jurisdiction.1 That change should be retained in the final guidelines. What the package does not yet do is say clearly enough what follows from that change. The same draft guidelines also state ...
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Attachment If it’s so safe ….

  • Deep Geological Repository (DGR) for Canada's Used Nuclear Fuel Project
  • Author: Lance McKillop
  • Reference Number: 737
  • Submitted: 2026-04-11 - 9:56 PM
  • Project Phase: Planning
  • Participation Notice: N/A
  • It's not so much the nuclear waste as it is the added trucks on Northern Ontario'santiquated Highways. Almost daily our highways are closed due to transports driving off the roads. There will be added trucks during construction and added trucks after construction carrying Nuclear waste.  Also if the nuclear waste is so safe why not leave it where it is? Why do you need to bury it as deep as the CN tower if it's so safe? If it's so safe why do you have an emergency plan in the event of a accident ? They test drop the containers from a height of three stories why are they not tested in the back of a transport doing 100km crashing into a another transport doing 100km?  Once again Northern Ontario gets the short end of the stick. 

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Attachment No Stop

  • Deep Geological Repository (DGR) for Canada's Used Nuclear Fuel Project
  • Author: Barbara Bulmer
  • Reference Number: 736
  • Submitted: 2026-04-11 - 8:48 PM
  • Project Phase: Planning
  • Participation Notice: N/A
  • For the safety of our land and water, every community in between, keep your spent fuel rods near the power plants, its too dangerous to be sending them north, the highways are not safe, trains derail all the time, do you really want to leave a mess for generations to come, stop the madness,  use your common sense 

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Attachment Comments on IAAC’s Draft Integrated Tailored Impact Statement Guidelines

  • Deep Geological Repository (DGR) for Canada's Used Nuclear Fuel Project
  • Author: Jaro Franta
  • Reference Number: 735
  • Submitted: 2026-04-11 - 12:11 PM
  • Project Phase: Planning
  • Participation Notice: N/A
  • Thanks to the Impact Assessment Agency of Canada and the Canadian Nuclear Safety Commission for inviting comments on the Draft Integrated Tailored Impact Statement Guidelines for the Deep Geological Repository for Canada’s Used Nuclear Fuel Project, proposed by the Nuclear Waste Management Organization (the NWMO).
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  • Comments on IAAC’s Draft Integrated Tailored Impact Statement Guidelines, ref. #166000E Jaro Franta, 11 April 2026 Thanks to the Impact Assessment Agency of Canada and the Canadian Nuclear Safety Commission for inviting comments on the Draft Integrated Tailored Impact Statement Guidelines for the Deep Geological Repository for Canada’s Used Nuclear Fuel Project, proposed by the Nuclear Waste Management Organization (the NWMO). On April 10 IAAC published their Draft Integrated Tailored Impact Statement Guidelines for the Deep Geological Repository for Canada’s Used Nuclear Fuel Project https://iaac-aeic.gc.ca/050/documents/p88774/166000E.pdf Among other things, it states that “the roads and highways on which used nuclear fuel, construction materials, and personnel would travel are under municipal and provincial jurisdiction, and as a result are not included in the impact assessment as it is outside of IAAC’s mandate. Any operations, maintenance, improvements ...
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Attachment Human futility

  • Deep Geological Repository (DGR) for Canada's Used Nuclear Fuel Project
  • Author: m s
  • Reference Number: 734
  • Submitted: 2026-04-10 - 9:31 PM
  • Project Phase: Planning
  • Participation Notice: N/A
  • This is a flush down the toilet and forget solution to the real life ramifications of utilizing uranium for nuclear power and attempting to store the refuse safely. Whether it ends up in the water table sooner or later, it will and will deem any site this refuse touches uninhabitable for millions of years. Convenient solution for those who don't live anywhere near this repository site, only.  I think the selfish form of humanity needs to take a step back and think about its reliance on such futile and impossibly sustainable first world luxuries. 

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Attachment Please Further Improve Transportation Procedures

  • Deep Geological Repository (DGR) for Canada's Used Nuclear Fuel Project
  • Author: Deborah Webb
  • Reference Number: 733
  • Submitted: 2026-04-10 - 5:51 PM
  • Project Phase: Planning
  • Participation Notice: N/A
  • While transportaion plans have niw been added, they are not in any way adequately detailed. Please add much more specific details on the transportation plans and procedures, ways to verify these procedures are being adhered to and ways to report any issues.

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Attachment Opposition to DGR

  • Deep Geological Repository (DGR) for Canada's Used Nuclear Fuel Project
  • Author: none
  • Reference Number: 731
  • Submitted: 2026-04-10 - 3:27 PM
  • Project Phase: Planning
  • Participation Notice: N/A
  • To whom it may concern, I have been a resident of North Western Ontario since 1976 and have experienced the nuclear industry's tactics over the last 4 decades in their quest to find a place to dump their toxic waste.  In the 1980s 2 mines closed here in Atikokan with the loss of 1200 good paying jobs, a major blow to the community which is 130 kilometers south and east of the present day Revel Lake proposed DGR site.  At that time in the 1980s there was no Nuclear Waste management Organization(NWMO) .  Atomic Energy of Canada(AECL) was the organization who came to Atikokan to try convince us they could bury their toxic radio active waste forever safely and provide good  paying jobs for decades in to the future . Fortunately the community was given access to funding to provide a balanced debate of the subject both pro and con on the matter.  After a public forum and debate the community rejected the proposed DGR by over 80% of the population ...

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Attachment Environmental Incompetence!

  • Deep Geological Repository (DGR) for Canada's Used Nuclear Fuel Project
  • Author: Our Grandchildren’s Future
  • Reference Number: 721
  • Submitted: 2026-04-09 - 10:30 AM
  • Project Phase: Planning
  • Participation Notice: N/A
  • Transporting nuclear waste from eastern and southern Ontario all the way to Ignace—mainly along Highways 11 and 17—raises some serious concerns. These are long, often dangerous routes with harsh weather, frequent accidents, and limited emergency response, yet they’d be used for decades to move highly hazardous material.   Even if the risk is considered “low,” the consequences of a single incident could be devastating—especially for northern ecosystems and waters connected to Lake Superior, the world’s largest freshwater lake, where contamination would be incredibly difficult, if not impossible, to clean up. Calling it safe overlooks the reality of repeated, long-term exposure to risk.   In a time when we’ve had to become increasingly protective of the environment, choosing to transport nuclear waste through such a critical and vulnerable region feels especially ...

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Attachment Lac Des Mille Lacs First Nation regarding NWMO's mischaracterization of the consultation record

  • Deep Geological Repository (DGR) for Canada's Used Nuclear Fuel Project
  • Author: Administrator on behalf of Lac Des Mille Lacs First Nation
  • Reference Number: 740
  • Submitted: 2026-04-08
  • Project Phase: Planning
  • Participation Notice: Public Notice - Comments invited and information sessions on the draft Integrated Tailored Impact Statement Guidelines and draft Public Participation Plan
  • See the attached submission / Veuillez consulter la pièce jointe
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Attachment Needs deeper review

  • Deep Geological Repository (DGR) for Canada's Used Nuclear Fuel Project
  • Author: Mike Walker
  • Reference Number: 720
  • Submitted: 2026-04-07 - 1:52 PM
  • Project Phase: Planning
  • Participation Notice: N/A
  • Someone in the organization needs to make a more thorough project plan and publish it transparently ASAP. There is a serious gap in the transportation and processing risks assessment. Suggest you employ a LMM tool like Claude or Gemini, these tools are meticulous and scrupulously honest when used correctly... 

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Attachment Northwatch Review of the NWMO’s Consolidated Information on the Transportation of Used Fuel - Plain Language Summary

  • Deep Geological Repository (DGR) for Canada's Used Nuclear Fuel Project
  • Author: Northwatch
  • Reference Number: 719
  • Submitted: 2026-04-03 - 7:51 PM
  • Project Phase: Planning
  • Participation Notice: N/A
  • On January 6, 2025 the Impact Assessment Agency invited comments (https://iaac-aeic.gc.ca/050/evaluations/document/164641) from the public and Indigenous people on the summary (https://iaac-aeic.gc.ca/050/evaluations/document/164740) of an Initial Project Description (https://iaac-aeic.gc.ca/050/evaluations/document/164492) prepared and submitted by the Nuclear Waste Management Organization (NWMO) with respect to their proposed Deep Geological Repository (DGR) for Canada’s Used Nuclear Fuel Project (https://iaac-aeic.gc.ca/050/evaluations/proj/88774?culture=en-CA). Northwatch was one of more that 600 individuals and organizations who provided comments (https://iaac-aeic.gc.ca/050/evaluations/proj/88774/contributions) on that Initial Project Description, with more than 95% of those intervenors being critical of or opposed to the NWMO’s project and the NWMO’s presentation of the project in the Initial Project Description. On February 16th ...
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  • Northwatch Review of the NWMO’s Consolidated Information on the Transportation of Used Fuel - Plain Language Summary Deep Geological Repository (DGR) for Canada's Used Nuclear Fuel Project IAAC Ref# 88774 www.northwatch.org northwatch@northwatch.org Northwatch Review of the NWMO’s Consolidated Information on the Transportation of Used Fuel - Plain Language Summary 1 1. Introduction On January 6, 2025 the Impact Assessment Agency invited comments from the public and Indigenous people on the summary of an Initial Project Description prepared and submitted by the Nuclear Waste Management Organization (NWMO) with respect to their proposed Deep Geological Repository (DGR) for Canada’s Used Nuclear Fuel Project. Northwatch was one of more that 600 individuals and organizations who provided comments on that Initial Project Description, with more than 95% of those intervenors being critical of or opposed to the NWMO’s project and ...
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Attachment Reference No.88774 - We The Nuclear Free North Comments on NWMO's Response to Summary of Issues

  • Deep Geological Repository (DGR) for Canada's Used Nuclear Fuel Project
  • Author: Canadian Environmental Law Association, on behalf of We The Nuclear Free North
  • Reference Number: 718
  • Submitted: 2026-04-02 - 4:21 PM
  • Project Phase: Planning
  • Participation Notice: N/A
  • Please see attached.
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  • Canadian Environmental Law Association T 416 960-2284 • 1-844-755-1420 • F 416 960-9392 • 55 University Avenue, Suite 1500 Toronto, Ontario M5J 2H7 • cela.ca April 2, 2026 Deep Geological Repository for Canada's Used Nuclear Fuel Project Impact Assessment Agency of Canada 160 Elgin Street, 22nd Floor Ottawa, Ontario K1A 0H3 Email: nuclearwaste-dechetsnucleaires@iaac-aeic.gc.ca Re: Reference No.88774 - We the Nuclear Free North Comments on Nuclear Waste Management Organization's Response to the Summary of Issues We the Nuclear Free North (“WTNFN”) has reviewed the Nuclear Waste Management Organization’s (“NWMO”) Response to the Summary of Issues.1 Despite the Impact Assessment Agency of Canada (“Agency”) instruction to NWMO to ensure it had reviewed all submissions on the Initial Project Description (“IPD”) on the Canadian Impact Assessment Registry site, the NWMO has not done so and many of the serious issues raised in public ...
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Attachment Comments on NWMO’s Consolidated Information on the Transportation of Used Fuel – Plain Language Summary

  • Deep Geological Repository (DGR) for Canada's Used Nuclear Fuel Project
  • Author: Jaro Franta
  • Reference Number: 714
  • Submitted: 2026-03-18 - 9:58 AM
  • Project Phase: Planning
  • Participation Notice: N/A
  • Thanks to the Impact Assessment Agency of Canada and the Canadian Nuclear Safety Commission for inviting comments on the Initial Project Description for the Deep Geological Repository for Canada’s Used Nuclear Fuel Project, proposed by the Nuclear Waste Management Organization (the NWMO), per Canadian Impact Assessment Registry reference number 88774.
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  • Comments on NWMO’s Consolidated Information on the Transportation of Used Fuel – Plain Language Summary, IAAC registry reference number 88774 Jaro Franta, 18 March 2026 Thanks to the Impact Assessment Agency of Canada and the Canadian Nuclear Safety Commission for inviting comments on the Initial Project Description for the Deep Geological Repository for Canada’s Used Nuclear Fuel Project, proposed by the Nuclear Waste Management Organization (the NWMO), per Canadian Impact Assessment Registry reference number 88774. On March 17 IAAC published NWMO’s Consolidated Information on the Transportation of Used Fuel – Plain Language Summary. https://iaac-aeic.gc.ca/050/documents/p88774/165474E.pdf Among other things, it states that “NWMO is including in the project two physical changes associated with transportation: construction of a new Hwy 17 turn-off with accompanying access roads to the site and construction of a potential rail spur. The NWMO is making ...
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Attachment Reference No.88774 - We The Nuclear Free North Comments on Summary of Issues

  • Deep Geological Repository (DGR) for Canada's Used Nuclear Fuel Project
  • Author: Canadian Environmental Law Association, on behalf of We The Nuclear Free North
  • Reference Number: 711
  • Submitted: 2026-03-11 - 4:59 PM
  • Project Phase: Planning
  • Participation Notice: N/A
  • Please see attached.
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  • Canadian Environmental Law Association T 416 960-2284 • 1-844-755-1420 • F 416 960-9392 • 55 University Avenue, Suite 1500 Toronto, Ontario M5J 2H7 • cela.ca March 11, 2026 Deep Geological Repository for Canada's Used Nuclear Fuel Project Impact Assessment Agency of Canada 160 Elgin Street, 22nd Floor Ottawa, Ontario K1A 0H3 Email: nuclearwaste-dechetsnucleaires@iaac-aeic.gc.ca Re: Reference No.88774 - We the Nuclear Free North Comments on Summary of Issues We are counsel for We the Nuclear Free North (“WTNFN”) in relation to the above-noted matter. Please be advised that WTNFN has closely reviewed the Impact Assessment Agency of Canada’s (“Agency”) Summary of Issues. Our client has instructed us to provide the Agency with the following comments in order to ensure a credible, rigorous, and evidence-based impact assessment of the Nuclear Waste Management Organization’s (“NWMO”) proposal to emplace 5.9 million used fuel bundles of ...
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Attachment Barriers to Accessing Project Information and Engagement Notices

  • Deep Geological Repository (DGR) for Canada's Used Nuclear Fuel Project
  • Author: Melgund Recreation, Arts and Culture
  • Reference Number: 709
  • Submitted: 2026-03-11 - 10:56 AM
  • Project Phase: Planning
  • Participation Notice: N/A
  • A recurring issue raised by local residents and in public impact assessment comments concerns the lack of accessible printed copies of the project documentation for the proposed Revell Site Deep Geological Repository (DGR).  Many residents living closest to the proposed NWMO Revell site reported significant difficulty obtaining hardcopies of the Initial Project Description (IPD) and related technical materials. Although the IPD was announced publicly in early January 2026, printed versions were not made unavailable outside of the designated host communities of Ignace, Dryden and Wabigoon Lake Ojibway Nation. Residents in surrounding communities, including Dryden and those living along the Highway 17 transportation corridor, repeatedly noted that other local public institutions did not receive sufficient printed materials for meaningful review. Several commenters documented that when printed copies were made available, they were extremely limited in number and ...

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Attachment Social License and Regulatory Integrity

  • Deep Geological Repository (DGR) for Canada's Used Nuclear Fuel Project
  • Author: The Arts Incubator Winnipeg
  • Reference Number: 707
  • Submitted: 2026-03-02 - 1:03 PM
  • Project Phase: Planning
  • Participation Notice: N/A
  • Our latest review of public submissions regarding the Revell Site Deep Geological Repository (DGR) reveals a profound and overwhelming opposition to the project in its current form. While a minority of submissions—primarily from industry-adjacent professionals or residents anticipating economic revitalization—support the initiative, the vast majority of stakeholders express deep distrust in the regulatory process, the proponent (NWMO), and the technical safety of the proposal. The opposition is not merely ideological but is heavily rooted in specific logistical concerns, particularly the exclusion of transportation risks from the assessment scope and the perceived violation of Indigenous sovereignty and Treaty rights. Even among neutral submissions, there is a consistent demand for a more rigorous, federal-level impact assessment, suggesting that the current "Initial Project Description" has failed to secure broad social license. Procedural Fairness ...

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Attachment Transportation of High-Level Radioactive Waste on Our Highways

  • Deep Geological Repository (DGR) for Canada's Used Nuclear Fuel Project
  • Author: Administrator on behalf of Jessica Wick
  • Reference Number: 708
  • Submitted: 2026-02-26 - 3:47 PM
  • Project Phase: Planning
  • Participation Notice: N/A
  • See the attached submission / Veuillez consulter la pièce jointe
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  • Box 282, North Bay ON P1B 8H2 | 705 497 0373 | northwatch@northwatch.org | www.northwatch.org Date: January 9, 2026 To: Municipalities of Northeastern Ontario From: Brennain Lloyd, Northwatch Re. Transportation of High-Level Radioactive Waste on Our Highways Register Your Community's Concern by February 4th Earlier this week a federal review of the Nuclear Waste Management Organization’s plan to transport, process, bury and eventually abandon all of Canada’s high-level nuclear waste in northwestern Ontario was launched, with the first comment period closing on February 4th. Over these next several weeks it is important that municipalities register their interest with the Impact Assessment Agency of Canada and comment on the Initial Project Description now posted on the IAAC web site. Of key importance: the NWMO is seeking to exclude the transportation of the high-level radioactive wastes through from the impact assessment process. In effect, that is ...
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