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Attachment I along many people in this beautiful part of the province are getting tired of this government fronted bullshit that is trying to turn this area into a toxic garbage dump by BRIBING communities that have no industries so this how you butter their bread, keep your shit at your end of the province

  • Deep Geological Repository (DGR) for Canada's Used Nuclear Fuel Project
  • Author: Gordon Wright
  • Reference number: 1118
  • Submitted: 2026-08-17 - 9:46 PM
  • I along many people in this beautiful part of the province are getting tired of this government fronted bullshit that is trying to turn this area into a toxic garbage dump by BRIBING communties that have no industries so this is how you butter their bread , Ignace has no issues with this project as of course they are upstream of future contanmination to our downstream natural resorces, but you keep on sending more BRIBE money their way along with WLON, not caring about anyone else but money, if I had the money that the government had to promote this project it wouldn't leave the site that the waste was produced in as we at thi s end of the province has no benifit from any of the energy that the plants produce. KEEP YOUR F'N TOXIC GARBAGE IN YOUR OWN BACK YARD????????

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Attachment Grand Council Treaty #3 Correspondence with IAAC regarding The Anishinaabe Nation in Treaty #3’s exclusion from IAAC’s Cooperation Plan and Indigenous Engagement and Partnership Plan

  • Deep Geological Repository (DGR) for Canada's Used Nuclear Fuel Project
  • Author: Grand Council Treaty #3
  • Reference number: 1116
  • Submitted: 2026-08-14 - 9:49 AM
  • Please see attached.
  • Attachment included
  • Via Email and Electronic Submission August 13, 2026 Ms. Kim Noble Manager, Consultation Operations, Impact Assessment Agency of Canada 22nd Floor, Place Bell 160 Elgin Street Ottawa, ON K1A 0H3 Re: The Anishinaabe Nation in Treaty #3’s exclusion from IAAC’s Cooperation Plan and Indigenous Engagement and Partnership Plan Dear Ms. Noble: Thank you for your July 21 letter responding to GCT3’s July 10 letter regarding the Anishinaabe Nation in Treaty #3’s exclusion from IAAC’s Cooperation Plan and IEPP for the proposed DGR Project. This letter (a) corrects certain misstatements in IAAC’s July 21 letter, (b) identifies four ways in which Canada’s current approach to the Anishinaabe Nation in Treaty #3 does not uphold the honour of the Crown, and (c) requests clarification on outstanding matters and IAAC’s July 21 information requests. GCT3 believes that its concerns are best addressed by implementing the Manito Aki Inaakonigewin – Impact Assessment Act harmonization framework (the “Framework”) that has been co-developed by IAAC, CNSC and GCT3. IAAC’s July 21 letter did not reference our Framework in any depth, despite the significant joint work undertaken on it. (a) Misstatements in and Clarifications to IAAC/CNSC’s July 21 Letter Before proceeding further, we believe it is necessary to correct certain misstatements that appear in your July 21 letter: • Page 2, paragraph 2 states “GCT3 was awarded participant funding allocated in the public stream.” What IAAC provided GCT3 was [$3,000/8,000] to participate in the Planning Phase. If meaningful participation is the goal, the amount provided to GCT3 is grossly insufficient for a traditional ...
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Attachment Grand Council Treaty #3 Correspondence with Major Projects Office regarding Proposed Deep Geological Repository for Canada’s Nuclear Fuel – Request for Clarity

  • Deep Geological Repository (DGR) for Canada's Used Nuclear Fuel Project
  • Author: Grand Council Treaty #3
  • Reference number: 1114
  • Submitted: 2026-07-24 - 9:54 PM
  • Project phase: Impact Statement
  • Please see attached.
  • Attachment included
  • July 24, 2026 Major Projects Office 85 Sparks Street Ottawa, Ontario K1P 5K9 Canada Via Email to: DGRC-CDSCGP@mpo-bgp.gc.ca Re: Proposed Deep Geological Repository for Canada’s Nuclear Fuel - Grand Council Treaty #3’s Request for Clarity A. Overview You are one of many representatives of the Crown dealing with the proposed Deep Geological Repository (“DGR”). The DGR site is located entirely within the lands covered by the historic Treaty #3 and covenant between the Anishinaabe Nation in Treaty #3, Canada and the Creator on October 3, 1873.1 This letter supplements other recent correspondence on behalf of Grand Council Treaty #3 (“GCT3”).2 On an urgent basis, this letter seeks to engage you and all other Crown representatives known to be involved with the DGR. For all Crown processes involving the DGR, including its potential designation as a project of national interest (“PONI”) under the Building Canada Act (“BCA”), GCT3 seeks: 1. immediate recognition and respect of the jurisdiction and authority of the Anishinaabe Nation in Treaty #3 and Manito Aki Inaakonigewin; and 1 See: GCT3’s website. 2 This letter follows up on our June 26, 2026 letter to Prime Minister Carney from Ogichidaa Kavanaugh. It also follows up on my July 7, 2026 letter to your Office in my role as Director of the TPU regarding existing concerns around the DGR project and my request for information on the Major Projects Office (MPO) and its processes. On July 10, 2026, I also separately wrote to the Impact Assessment Agency of Canada to question IAAC's exclusion of the Anishinaabe Nation in Treaty #3 as “Indigenous Nations or Communities” within two plans related to the DGR under ...
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Attachment Fundamentally flawed and unjust

  • Deep Geological Repository (DGR) for Canada's Used Nuclear Fuel Project
  • Author: Trisha Cowie
  • Reference number: 1113
  • Submitted: 2026-07-22 - 2:37 PM
  • Project phase: Impact Statement
  • Please see attached. 
  • Attachment included
  • Aaniin, Trisha Cowie nindizhnikaas. Gnaajwang Kwe indigoo. Anishinaabe-kwe ndaw. Tik nindoodem. Hiawatha First Nation minwaa Williams Treaties First Nations nidoonjibaa. My community is Hiawatha and I live in the overlapping treaty territories of Williams Treaties and Robinson Huron Treaty. My rights and environment have been significantly impacted by every nuclear related industry. The wrongs of the past have never been addressed and now additional, compounding harms are being considered. I am writing to express my concern about May 8th discussion paper which outlined Government of Canada plans to make changes related impact assessment of major projects The proposals include limiting Federal review and decision-making to no more than one year, transferring responsibility for impact assessment of nuclear projects, and enabling economic zones where normal assessment and permitting processes could be suspended I am concerned about the proposal to transfer impact assessments for nuclear and uranium projects from the independent Impact Assessment Agency of Canada (IAAC) to the nuclear industry dominated Canadian Nuclear Safety Commission (CNSC). The discussion paper is unclear as to how this new approach to Impact Assessment (IA) would be implemented, but it does indicate that even reviews already underway – where Canadians and Indigenous people have already invested tens of thousands of hours to participate in the IAAC- led process – could be handed over to the CNSC. The CNSC is the wrong agency to deliver the impact assessment process because it is not trusted, it is led by nuclear industry insiders, it is is seen as a promoter and co-proponent of nuclear projects, it reports to the Minister ...
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Attachment Grand Council Treaty #3’s Reply to IAAC’s June 30th Letter respecting the DGR Project

  • Deep Geological Repository (DGR) for Canada's Used Nuclear Fuel Project
  • Author: Grand Council Treaty #3
  • Reference number: 1112
  • Submitted: 2026-07-16 - 6:44 PM
  • Project phase: Impact Statement
  • Please see attached.
  • Attachment included
  • Via E-mail July 16, 2026 Mr. Terence Hubbard President, Impact Assessment Agency of Canada 22nd Floor, Place Bell 160 Elgin Street Ottawa, ON K1A 0H3 Mr. Pierre Tremblay President, Canadian Nuclear Safety Commission 280 Slater Street P.O. Box 1046, Stn B Ottawa, Ontario K1P 5S9 Re: GCT3’s Reply to IAAC’s June 30 Letter respecting the DGR Project Dear Mssrs. Hubbard and Tremblay: Mr. Hubbard's June 30, 2026 letter to me makes clear that we are at an impasse. The Anishinaabe Nation in Treaty #3 (Nation), as represented by Grand Council Treaty #3 (GCT3), have provided the Impact Assessment Agency of Canada (IAAC) and Canadian Nuclear Safety Commission (CNSC) with numerous opportunities for continued collaboration. However, IAAC/CNSC appears to believe that an Impact Assessment Act – Manito Aki Inaakonigewin harmonization plan is no longer relevant and/or necessary. IAAC and CNSC have many means of doing so under Canada’s Impact Assessment Act (IAA), Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples Act (DRIPA), Duty to Consult and Accommodate (DTCA), and the Canadian Constitution. Your June 30 letter appears to have concluded that the jurisdiction of the Anishinaabe Nation in Treaty #3 through the GCT3 administration is irrelevant to your future impact assessment. You also appear to have concluded that the jurisdiction of twenty-two of the Treaty #3 First Nations are irrelevant to your future impact assessment, as IAAC has identified only six Treaty #3 First Nations in its Indigenous Engagement and Participation Plan (IEPP). I cannot accept that the Nation does not have a role in your future impact assessment. As you are no doubt aware, on June 26, 2026, ...
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Attachment need for better heat tests of Used Fuel Transportation Packages and assessment of forest fire threat to nuclear facilities and transportation

  • Deep Geological Repository (DGR) for Canada's Used Nuclear Fuel Project
  • Author: Paul Filteau
  • Reference number: 1111
  • Submitted: 2026-07-15 - 9:18 PM
  • Project phase: Impact Statement
  • When we consider wildfires then the sanity of this deep geological repository burns away. On May 2, 2001, a nuclear transport containing highly radioactive iridium and another transport collided and burst into flames near Dryden, Ontario. 4 drivers were killed. Veritable, chariots of death. On February 14, 2014, at the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant (WIPP) for nuclear waste storage, a haul truck caught fire underground with radioactivity escaping to the surface sending a radioactive plume towards Carlsbaad, New, Mexico. 22 personnel received low-level radiation doses. On April 27, 2023 Whiteshell Laboratories, a former nuclear research and test facility located in Pinawa, Manitoba was closed to non-essential work because of severe safety deficiencies in the site's fire and emergency management program. The site was reopened after the implementation of a Corrective Action Plan. Smoke last year covered Canada reaching Nova Scotia and New York City. In the case of another nuclear accident during a wildfire how far would radiation go? Are the used fuel transportation packages heat tested for wildfires? In the case of blazing infernos reaching the DGR site, what about the surface personnel, and facilities such as a hot cell repackaging plant and surrounding populations and the environment? Author, John Vaillant explains that extreme wildfires now burn so intensely in a warming atmosphere that they create their own weather systems. In his book, “Fire Weather”, he details how this immense thermal energy generates its own winds and lightning, allowing a fire to spawn new blazes tens of miles away. He ...

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Attachment Grand Council Treaty #3’s Letter to IAAC regarding IAAC’s Cooperation Plan and Indigenous Engagement and Partnership Plan

  • Deep Geological Repository (DGR) for Canada's Used Nuclear Fuel Project
  • Author: Grand Council Treaty #3
  • Reference number: 1110
  • Submitted: 2026-07-10 - 9:01 PM
  • Project phase: Impact Statement
  • Please see attached.
  • Attachment included
  • Via Email and Electronic Submission July 10, 2026 Ms. Kim Noble Manager, Consultation Operations, Impact Assessment Agency of Canada 22nd Floor, Place Bell 160 Elgin Street Ottawa, ON K1A 0H3 Re: The Anishinaabe Nation in Treaty #3’s exclusion from IAAC’s Cooperation Plan and Indigenous Engagement and Partnership Plan Dear Kim: On July 3, 2026, the Impact Assessment Agency of Canada (“IAAC”) released the Cooperation Plan and Indigenous Engagement and Partnership Plan (“IEPP”) for the proposed Deep Geological Repository for Canada's Used Nuclear Fuel (the “Project”). The IEPP omits the Anishinaabe Nation in Treaty #3 (the “Nation”), as represented by Grand Council in Treaty #3 (“GCT3”). Section 3.1 of the IEPP fails to identify the Nation on its list of “Indigenous Nations and communities” (the “IEPP List”) that the IAAC and the Canadian Nuclear Safety Commission (“CNSC”) will consult throughout Canada’s impact assessment. The Nation is also excluded from the Cooperation Plan, which considers only the Governments of Canada and Ontario for the purposes of carrying out a single assessment of environmental effects across jurisdictions. These failures are inconsistent with years of discussions involving IAAC and GCT3, as well as decades of engagement on other matters. In fact, IAAC recently asked GCT3 if they could showcase some of this earlier work as a “success” story. Here, from 2021 to 2025, GCT3 engaged in discussions with the IAAC and CNSC regarding “an agreement for collaboration on the assessment of projects subject to impact assessment”. Nor are these failures consistent with the Impact Assessment Act (“IAA”) itself. The IAA uses several ...
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Attachment Grand Council Treaty #3 Correspondence with Major Projects Office regarding DGR Project BCA referral and Information Requests

  • Deep Geological Repository (DGR) for Canada's Used Nuclear Fuel Project
  • Author: Grand Council Treaty #3
  • Reference number: 1109
  • Submitted: 2026-07-09 - 11:25 AM
  • Project phase: Impact Statement
  • Please see attached. 
  • Attachment included
  • Archived: July 9, 2026 11:13:07 AM From: DGR Consultation / Consultation DSCGP (MPO/BGP) Mail received time: Wed, 8 Jul 2026 12:45:15 Sent: Wed, 8 Jul 2026 12:45:04 To: Chris Herc DGR Consultation / Consultation DSCGP (MPO/BGP) Cc: Kevan Sumner Subject: RE: Major Projects - Deep Geological Repository for Canada’s Nuclear Fuel Project - Grand Council Treaty #3 Importance: Normal Sensitivity: None \cbpat3You don't often get email from dgrc-cdscgp@mpo-bgp.gc.ca. Learn why this is important Hi Chris, Confirming receipt of your email, letter, and request for information. We will be in touch! Thank you, Hannah Hannah Dubber [she, her, elle] Major Projects Office | Government of Canada Bureau des grands projets | Gouvernement du Canada Hannah.Dubber@mpo-bgp.gc.ca| 613-858-0375 From: Chris Herc Sent: Tuesday, July 7, 2026 4:07 PM To: DGR Consultation / Consultation DSCGP (MPO/BGP) Cc: Kevan Sumner Subject: Major Projects - Deep Geological Repository for Canada’s Nuclear Fuel Project - Grand Council Treaty #3 Hello, I’m emailing on behalf of Grand Council Treaty #3 in relation to the recent announcement of the Nuclear Waste Management’s (NWMO) the Deep Geological Repository (DGR) project being listed for consideration as national interest project. Please find attached a letter from Grand Council Treaty #3 addressing our existing concerns around the DGR project and a request for information in regards to the Major Projects Office and its processes. Can you please confirm reception of this email and the attached letter and information request. I’m looking forward to discussing further. If you have any questions please don’t hesitate to ask. Thank ...
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  • Archived: July 9, 2026 11:20:57 AM From: Chris Herc Mail received time: Tue, 7 Jul 2026 20:10:47 Sent: Tue, 7 Jul 2026 20:07:10 To: DGRC-CDSCGP@mpo-bgp.gc.ca Cc: Kevan Sumner Subject: Major Projects - Deep Geological Repository for Canada’s Nuclear Fuel Project - Grand Council Treaty #3 Importance: Normal Sensitivity: None Attachments: GCT3_TPU_DGR-Letter_to_MPO_July-07-2026.pdf; GCT3_TPU_MPO_Information_Request_July-07-2026.pdf; This message originated from outside of Gowling WLG. | Ce message provient de l’extérieur de Gowling WLG. Hello, I’m emailing on behalf of Grand Council Treaty #3 in relation to the recent announcement of the Nuclear Waste Management’s (NWMO) the Deep Geological Repository (DGR) project being listed for consideration as national interest project. Please find attached a letter from Grand Council Treaty #3 addressing our existing concerns around the DGR project and a request for information in regards to the Major Projects Office and its processes. Can you please confirm reception of this email and the attached letter and information request. I’m looking forward to discussing further. If you have any questions please don’t hesitate to ask. Thank you, Chris Chris Herc (he/him) Director of the Territorial Planning Unit Zhaagimaa Waabo Territorial Planning Unit Grand Council Treaty #3 PO BOX 1720, Kenora, ON P9N 3X7 Phone: 807-548-4214 ext.504 | Mobile: 506-653-0807 Website: GCT3.ca | Email: chris.herc@treaty3.ca Office Location: 2650 Highway 17 East, Kenora, ON ...
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  • July 07, 2026 Major Projects Office 85 Sparks Street Ottawa, Ontario K1P 5K9 Canada Re: Major Projects - Deep Geological Repository for Canada’s Nuclear Fuel Project - Grand Council Treaty #3 Below are Information Request(s)(“IR” or “IRs”)1 of the Grand Council Treaty #3 (“GCT3”) to the Major Projects Office (“MPO”) regarding Canada’s proposal to build and operate a facility, and related transportation works and undertakings, to manage all of Canada’s existing high-level used nuclear fuel waste for the duration of its toxicity, estimated to be 1 million years (“Project”): IR # References GCT3 IR to MPO A. • MPO June 26 e-mail to GCT3 (“MPO June 26 Notice”) • MPO June 26 Notice, Encl. #1: “Canada Initiates Process to List Major Projects under the Building Canada Act” (“Encl. 1”) • MPO June 26 Notice, Encl. #2: “Building Canada Act – Projects of National Interest” (“Encl. 2”) Background: On June 24, 2026, Canada announced that “the government is initiating the process toward potential listing of … [the Project] as [a Project] of national interest …” and referred the Project to the MPO3. (Emphasis added.) Canada also indicated that “consultations will be held with Indigenous communities who may be impacted by the project… These consultations will begin over the next several months, with the intent for the Minister of One Canadian Economy to make a recommendation for Governor in Council decision in the Fall.” Pursuant to the Canadian Constitution4, Canada must meaningfully consult and accommodate the Anishinaabe 1 GCT3 could have additional IRs. GCT3 looks forward to receiving the MPO’s responses to these IRs in a timely and sufficient manner. ...
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  • July 07, 2026 Major Projects Office 85 Sparks Street Ottawa, Ontario K1P 5K9 Canada Via Email to: DGRC-CDSCGP@mpo-bgp.gc.ca Re: Major Projects - Deep Geological Repository for Canada’s Nuclear Fuel Project - Grand Council Treaty #3 Grand Council Treaty #3 (GCT3) is the Traditional Government of the Anishinaabe Nation in Treaty #3 (comprised of 28 First Nations). Grand Council's mandate is to protect the future of the Anishinaabe people by ensuring the protection, preservation, and enhancement of inherent and Treaty rights. The Territorial Planning Unit (TPU) is a department within GCT3 that works with the Treaty #3 Leadership to protect the lands, water, and resources within the 55,000 square miles of Treaty #3 Territory. The TPU operates under the guidance of Manito Aki Inaakonigewin (Great Earth Law), rooted in Anishinaabe law. Manito Aki Inaakonigewin embodies four teachings that guide decision making: respect, rights, reciprocity, and responsibilities amongst all relations. Ceremony is an integral part of following Manito Aki Inaakonigewin. The law signifies the duty to respect and protect lands affected by over-usage, degradation, and unethical processes. The law is unique to Treaty #3 territory and is passed on through Elders and knowledge keepers. Since 2011, GCT3 and the TPU have taken the initiative to actively engage with the Nuclear Waste Management Organization (NWMO) in efforts to provide mutual education on a range of matters. We have done so under the umbrella of a series of formal agreements, supported by resolutions from GCT3 Chiefs-in-Assembly, that have become more focused as the NWMO proceeded from an initial pool of 22 interested ...
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Attachment Open Letter Ogichidaa Kavanaugh to PM Carney - June 26, 2026

  • Deep Geological Repository (DGR) for Canada's Used Nuclear Fuel Project
  • Author: Office of Ogichidaa, Grand Council Treaty #3
  • Reference number: 1108
  • Submitted: 2026-06-30 - 1:19 PM
  • Project phase: Planning
  • Please see attached. 
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  • June 26, 2026 The Honourable Prime Minister Mark Carney Office of the Prime Minister 80 Wellington Street Ottawa, ON K1A 0A2 Delivered Via: Email & Open Letter Re: Invitation for Nation -to -Nation cooperation on Canada’s proposal to potentially designate the NWMO DGR under its Building Canada Act Dear Honourable Mr. Carney, I am writing to respond to your Government’s June 24 announcement regarding the proposed Deep Geological Repository (DGR). The DGR is proposed to be located entirely within Treaty #3 Territory. I hereby invit e you and your Major Projects Office (MPO) to discuss the potential designation under the Building Canada Act (BCA) . I am very committed to work with you and the M PO . I too am more concerned about “how we build infrastructure ”, and “not just what we buil d”. That said, I am also concerned about where we build. As the Ogichidaa (Grand Chief) for the Anishinaabe Nation in Treaty #3 , I have been working alongside 28 Treaty #3 Chiefs and Anishinaabe Elders , Women and Youth to spen d considerable time navigating our responsibilities to Anishinaabe Inaakonigewin through ceremony and good governance . The DGR in question is subject to our law, Manito Aki Inaakonigewin (MAI), in addition to Canada’s environmental laws from Parliament and the Province of Ontario. Further to these responsibilities, t he Nation has been directed by Treaty #3 Chiefs to implement MAI for t he DGR . The DGR is imposing a n enormous ask o n the Nation and Treaty #3 First Nations . Let us be clear: it has and was never our duty or obligation to take on the responsibility of storing Canada’s waasigaan (nuclear) ...
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Attachment Reference No.88774 - Submission on Nuclear Waste Management Organization’s Comments on Draft Integrated Tailored Impact Statement Guidelines

  • Deep Geological Repository (DGR) for Canada's Used Nuclear Fuel Project
  • Author: We the Nuclear Free North
  • Reference number: 1100
  • Submitted: 2026-06-25 - 2:17 PM
  • Project phase: Planning
  • Please see attached the submission of We the Nuclear Free North on the NWMO's Comments on the Draft Integrated Tailored Impact Statement Guidelines.
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  • June 25, 2026 Terence Hubbard President, Impact Assessment Agency of Canada 160 Elgin Street, 22nd Floor Ottawa, Ontario K1A 0H3 Email: terence.hubbard@iaac-aeic.gc.ca 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 Submission on Nuclear Waste Management Organization’s Comments on Draft Integrated Tailored Impact Statement Guidelines We the Nuclear Free North (“WTNFN”) is submitting this comment on the Nuclear Waste Management Organization’s (“NWMO”) Submission on the Draft Integrated Tailored Impact Statement Guidelines (“Draft Guidelines”). WTNFN is writing to express serious concern about the NWMO’s submissions to the Impact Assessment Agency of Canada (the “Agency”) on the Draft Guidelines. At every turn, NWMO is improperly seeking to minimize and narrow the review of the proposed deep geological repository (“DGR”), despite its proposal being an untested and highly controversial proposal to permanently emplace high-level nuclear waste deep underground. NWMO’s proposed narrowing of any review is particularly concerning because this project will handle at least 5.9 million fuel bundles of highly dangerous high-level nuclear waste, which must be isolated from all living things and the environment for hundreds of thousands of years.1 A project of this type and magnitude has never been completed in Canada. We urge the Agency to wholly reject NWMO’s attempts to significantly narrow the impact assessment. (a) Scope of Review of ...
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Attachment Letter to IAAC and CNSC re Planning Phase Timeline

  • Deep Geological Repository (DGR) for Canada's Used Nuclear Fuel Project
  • Author: Grand Council Treaty #3
  • Reference number: 1099
  • Submitted: 2026-06-23 - 4:41 PM
  • Project phase: Planning
  • Please see attached. 
  • Attachment included
  • Via Email June 23, 2026 Mr. Terence Hubbard President, Impact Assessment Agency of Canada 22nd Floor, Place Bell 160 Elgin Street Ottawa, ON K1A 0H3 Mr. Pierre Tremblay President, Canadian Nuclear Safety Commission 280 Slater Street P.O. Box 1046, Stn B Ottawa, Ontario K1P 5S9 Re: The Anishinaabe Nation in Treaty #3’s Follow-up on NWMO Assessment Dear Mssrs. Hubbard and Tremblay: I am writing to you both to follow up on the Impact Assessment Agency of Canada’s (“Agency”) lack of response to the Government of the Anishinaabe Nation in Treaty #3 (the “Nation” or “GCT3”) regarding our February 24, 2026 and subsequent letters. Despite GCT3 providing the Agency (and the Nuclear Waste Management Organization (“NWMO”)) multiple opportunities to engage GCT3 during the Planning Phase, a lot of work remains outstanding on how to apply the Nation’s existing Manito Aki Inaakonigewin (“MAI”) regime, and work together in a collaborative, cooperative, and coordinated manner on the required impact assessment. GCT3’s May 10th letter was our third letter to the Agency this year regarding the nuclear fuel waste facility proposed by NWMO in the Territory of the Anishinaabe Nation in Treaty #3 (“Treaty #3 Territory”). NWMO proposed this facility to manage all Canada’s existing high-level used nuclear fuel for the duration of its toxicity, estimated to be 1 million years, all of which is produced entirely outside of Treaty #3 Territory (the “Project”). On February 4th,1 the Nation provided detailed comments on the 1,233-page Initial Project Description (“IPD”) released by the Agency on January 5, 2026. On February 24, 2026, GCT3 wrote to the Agency regarding its February 23rd ...
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Attachment Dividing Canada

  • Deep Geological Repository (DGR) for Canada's Used Nuclear Fuel Project
  • Author: personal concern
  • Reference number: 1098
  • Submitted: 2026-06-16 - 4:26 PM
  • Project phase: Planning
  • I question the  geographical  location of the repository.  It would lie in the area of the on the only 2  highways that unite Canada  and if a  possible  Chernobyl situation should occur in future  would contaminate a wide circle that  would include both roads.  This would prevent transfer of goods, food and  even military in cases of conflict. An Isolated Area far from  essential transport routes would be preferrable.  Recent Russian/Ukrainian War shows evidence of radiation illness still active in "that area"  affecting soldiers. We need to be cautious and reconsider the chocies offered so far. 

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Attachment Echo the comments of Fort William, Grassy Narrows, Nishnawbe Aski Nation

  • Deep Geological Repository (DGR) for Canada's Used Nuclear Fuel Project
  • Author: Hugh Mullally
  • Reference number: 1097
  • Submitted: 2026-06-09 - 3:29 PM
  • Project phase: Planning
  • I would like to echo and support the comments and public messages made by Fort William First Nation, Grassy Narrows FN, and Nishnawbe Aski Nation regarding the proposed nuclear waste dumping site in Ignace/Wabigoon Lake FN. I sincerely hope that the assessment process includes the transport of the nuclear waste, which presents potentially catastrophic fallout and irreparable damage to many people, First Nations and towns along the transportation route. The actions by NWMO up to this point of buying off the representatives of Wabigoon Lake FN and Ignace represent a foot in the door, and a very cheap one at that. The fact that NONE of the current town council of Ignace is running for re-election should be indicative of something amiss with their motivations and ethics. After ushering the NWMO into their town, why not stick around? Meanwhile Wabigoon Lake FN in December 2025, acquired a 9.99% ownership stake in the First Nations Bank of Canada (FNBC) to the tune of $12.8 million. It's a good thing for that First Nation, and I sincerely hope that it creates for wealth and revenue for that community and the region. But one wonders, what might the long term cost of taking that money from NWMO be, and how much did they take?  It is difficult to contend with an adversary that has unlimited resources and dollars behind it. NWMO's average spend per staffer is $185k (~ 200 staff). That would appear to be how much is costs to get people to sell nuclear waste.  If they want to truck the nuclear waste through 2/3 of the province, I suggest NWMO get out their cheque books to compensate all of those communities that are exposed to the risk of ...

Attachment Deep Geological Repository (DGR) for Canada’s Used Nuclear Fuel Project Proponent: Nuclear Waste Management Organization (NWMO)

  • Deep Geological Repository (DGR) for Canada's Used Nuclear Fuel Project
  • Author: Administrator on behalf of Grassy Narrows First Nation
  • Reference number: 1093
  • Submitted: 2026-06-01 - 12:07 PM
  • Project phase: Planning
  • See the attached submission / Veuillez consulter la pièce jointe
  • Attachment included
  • June 1, 2026 By Email (nuclearwaste-dechetsnucleaires@iaac-aeic.gc.ca) Impact Assessment Agency of Canada Place Bell, 22nd Floor 160 Elgin Street Ottawa, Ontario K1A 0H3 To Whom it May Concern: RE: Deep Geological Repository (DGR) for Canada’s Used Nuclear Fuel Project Proponent: Nuclear Waste Management Organization (NWMO) I am writing on behalf of Asubpeeschoseewagong Netum Anishinabek (“ANA” or “Grassy Narrows First Nation”). Chief and Council of Grassy Narrows have delegated mining and nuclear waste related matters to the Lands Protection Team, for which I act as the Lead Negotiator. We write in respect of the draft Tailored Impact Statement Guidelines and the Public Participation Plan, which were posted for public comment. As detailed below, and in response to the request for public comment on, Grassy Narrows strongly objects to the nuclear waste storage site and demands that it be fully integrated into the Impact Assessment process so that the significant risks to our community will be meaningfully considered and its free, prior and informed consent is obtained. Background on Grassy Narrows inherent Indigenous rights, and Aboriginal and Treaty rights Grassy Narrows is an Anishinaabe First Nation with traditional territory in what is called northwestern Ontario. Grassy Narrows people exercise inherent Indigenous rights, and Aboriginal and Treaty rights. They have cared for and lived on their lands for countless generations. Grassy Narrows people hunt, trap, fish, and practice their Anishinaabe way of life to provide for themselves, their families, and their community. The land and waterways of the Territory sustain Grassy Narrows people’s way of life. Grassy ...
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Attachment Preliminary Comments on ITISG for the Deep Geological Repository for Canada’s Used Nuclear Fuel Project

  • Deep Geological Repository (DGR) for Canada's Used Nuclear Fuel Project
  • Author: Administrator on behalf of Lac Seul First Nation
  • Reference number: 1094
  • Submitted: 2026-05-25 - 4:49 PM
  • Updated: 2026-06-05 - 9:36 AM
  • Rationale: Comment updated for administrative purposes
  • Project phase: Planning
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  • 1 May 25, 2026 Finn MacDonald Consultation Advisor, Impact Assessment Agency of Canada, Government of Canada finn.macdonald@iaac-aeic.gc.ca Re: Preliminary Comments on ITSIG for the Deep Geological Repository for Canada’s Used Nuclear Fuel Project Lac Seul First Nation writes to provide preliminary comments on the draft Integrated Tailored Impact Statement Guidelines (“ITISG”) for the Deep Geological Repository (“DGR”) for Canada’s Used Nuclear Fuel Project (the “Project”). This letter outlines our preliminary concerns with the impacts of transporting the nuclear waste, the Project’s specific impact on water systems, decision-making and climate change. More importantly, it highlights how these anticipated impacts are connected to Lac Seul’s Aboriginal and Treaty rights. Lac Seul’s comments are preliminary, as it has not yet received capacity funding to review the ITISG in-depth nor engage fully with traditional knowledge keepers. Lac Seul First Nation affirms that the Project and its associated activities are situated within Lac Seul’s traditional territory. A core part of the Project includes not only the proposed repository site, but the transportation of nuclear waste across the region. Lac Seul is a rights-bearing First Nation with Aboriginal and Treaty rights protected under s.35 of the Constitution Act, 1982. This is critical as many of the proposed activities will affect Lac Seul’s traditional territory and the community’s ability to exercise its rights on that territory. In other words, our First Nation is directly engaged by the Project. With this in mind, Lac Seul emphasizes that the ITISG must recognise that environmental impacts are inherently ...
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Attachment Concerns with the TISGs and IEPP

  • Deep Geological Repository (DGR) for Canada's Used Nuclear Fuel Project
  • Author: Chief and Council Ojibway Nation of Saugeen
  • Reference number: 1090
  • Submitted: 2026-05-15 - 4:13 PM
  • Project phase: Planning
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  • Ojibway Nation of Saugeen 18C Sapay Street Savant Lake, ON P0V2S0 P (807)928-2824 ext. 1 F (807)928-2710 PRIVATE & CONFIDENTIAL May 15, 2026 TO: The Impact Assessment Agency of Canada 22nd Floor, Place Bell 160 Elgin Street, Ottawa, ON K1A 0H3 Re: Public Comment on TISGs and EIPP Reference No. : 88774 The Ojibway Nation of Saugeen (ONS) have reviewed the draft Tailored Impact Statement Guidelines (TISGs) and the corresponding Indigenous Engagement and Partnership Plan (IEPP) in response to the call for feedback by the Impact Assessment Agency of Canada (IAAC). The ONS offers the following in response: Historical Background The Ojibway Nation of Saugeen (ONS) was recognized in 1985 as an “Indian Band” under the Indian Act, R.S.C., 1985, c. I-5 as an Indigenous Governing Body. Prior to that date, its members were dispersed; some were pushed out of the Ignace area in the early twentieth century and settled near Savant Lake or transferred to other First Nations in the area including Lac Seul First Nation. Despite ONS members having lived in various locations throughout the region, in 1997, the federal government set apart lands near Kashawagama Lake as a reserve for the ONS at the request of the Former Chief of the ONS, Edward Machimity. Edward Machimity was registered as a member of the Ignace Band. The Ignace Band, being the historic rights-bearing group of the contemporary ONS, traditionally occupied the territory from the Agimak Narrows, located just south of Ignace, Ontario, continuing 70 kilometres northwest along Highway 17 towards Dinorwic Lake, 75 kilometers north to the shores of Lac Seul, 140 kilometres northeast to Minchin Lake, 60 ...
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Attachment Monetized Nuclear Waste Genocide Impact Statement #5 Summary

  • Deep Geological Repository (DGR) for Canada's Used Nuclear Fuel Project
  • Author: Administrator on behalf of Marsha Ivall
  • Reference number: 1075
  • Submitted: 2026-05-15 - 10:53 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
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  • From: Marsha Ivall Sent Date: Fri May 15 10:53:42 2026 To: Nuclear Waste / Déchets Nucléaires (IAAC/AEIC) CC: Subject: Monetized Nuclear Waste Genocide Impact Statement #5 Summary Attachments: 1000000782.jpg(282KB); 1000000812.jpg(124KB); 1000000754.jpg(477KB); 1000000816.jpg(192KB) The Nuclear Waste Management Organization (NWMO) is nothing more than a lobby group for governmental and commercial nuclear waste producers. If you took a ride on their magic carpet (woven of lies.half truths.hidden agendas and bribing an bullying) you would believe you were travelling over a crystalline structure in an uninhabited land. Thats the first lie. The Arctic watershed they plan to use as a nuclear sewer is home to a million plus people. They have hidden that aspect of their so called plan. The second lie is that is safe. There is no history that confirms this. The third lie is that affected people agree. No one except those lavished with money consent. All native leaders have said NO. The only agreement is from one reserve who is being lavished with money. How can people consent to using this region as a nuclear dump? They have not even been told that their lives are going to be torn apart by these predators. This is an existential issue for people in the region. When overland flooding from their planned nuclear sewer closes the highways the United States which dominates NWMO may get their wish of annexing our country. Who will benefit from this rape pf our environment? Not the people living in this region or Winnipeg or the Arctic watershed. The ones benefitting will be far away from those dying of painful nuclear poisoning like a Putin victim. This plan is predatory and ...
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Attachment Monetized Nuclear Waste Genocide Comment #3

  • Deep Geological Repository (DGR) for Canada's Used Nuclear Fuel Project
  • Author: Administrator on behalf of Marsha Ivall
  • Reference number: 1073
  • Submitted: 2026-05-15 - 9:00 AM
  • Project phase: Planning
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  • From: Marsha Ivall Sent Date: Fri May 15 09:00:00 2026 To: Nuclear Waste / Déchets Nucléaires (IAAC/AEIC) CC: Subject: Monetized Nuclear Waste Genocide Attachments: 1000000815.jpg(102KB); 1000000741.jpg(201KB); 1000000801.jpg(113KB); 1000000782.jpg(282KB); 1000000807.jpg(142KB); 1000000800.jpg(204KB); 1000000818.jpg(80KB); 1000000816.jpg(192KB); 1000000806.jpg(124KB); 1000000754.jpg(477KB); 1000000819.jpg(133KB); 1000000812.jpg(124KB); 1000000804.jpg(148KB); 1000000808.jpg(111KB); 1000000780.jpg(284KB); 1000000743.jpg(279KB); 474c07ef- 93f0-4c12-a550-a3a7bc096174-1_all_7718.jpg(3460KB) IMPACT COMMENT PART 3 LEGAL ISSUES The genocidal secret plan is to use the Revell Lake to Lake of the Woods (and Winnipegs tap water) and through Manitoba to Hudsons Bay to the Arctic Ocean as a nuclear sewer to wash off equipment above ground. This plan has been hidden from a million plus people who have never been informed much less given consent. This above ground activity is GUARANTEED as part of the DGR. A minimum of 450.000 cubic metres and .ore if a second dump is added as currently discussed. This nuclear sewer area is not crystalline. It is sedimentary rock which oozes water and river and streams which become sandy loam as it descends into the prairies. It is also an active eartquake zone. It is subject to overland flooding including Hwys 11&17 which are the only roads across Canada. Continuous overland flooding will accumulate nuclear toxicity and make these highways impassable. Nuclear waste will split the country in two as nuclear waste separatism makes the land and water deadly right in the centre of Canada. RainyLake/River and Lake of the Woods waterways are shared with the United States which has ...
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