Unacceptable!

The Impact Assessment Act requires that activities integral to a project be included in its assessment. So why does this report omit the risks involved in long-distance nuclear waste transportation? Risks NEED to be included in the assessment for this project, like spills, road accidents, or emergency response capacity of the nearby small community. The report also does not state explicit monitering measures for radiation from these facilities. 

50 years of transporting highly radioactive waste, leaving 150,000 tonnes of it underground in the waters of Grassy Water First Nation, who continue to be sick from decades of mercury poisoning in their waters, is criminal. There is ANOTHER LOCATION OPTION to store this waste, which would spare this community from these disastrous risks. They deserve better than poison for their children. After Canada embraced the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples, we must not go backwards.

Nuclear waste requires a detailed and thorough safety assessment, it needs to explicitly state important factors, and it needs to adapt as much as possible to preserving the human rights of those it affects. This assessment does not address a number of safety concerns of the plan. it is unacceptable.