Transportation

I am an 81 year old grandmother.  I have lived here since I was 14.  My home is beside Wabigoon Lake.  How is it that putting a high level nuclar waste dump would even be considered by our government or NWMO in the watershed of Dryden's drinking water?  In the excavation tailings there will be the chemicals used for blasting, and even though this may be processed, it is not to potable standards.

Then there is transportation.  Radiation extends half a mile radius out from the truck.  Safety regulations for exposure are measured using the description of a healthy young man.  We know that women, and especially young children and pregnant women, are up to ten times more vulnerable (BEIR VII), Children playing in their yards could be exposed up to 3 times a day as these trucks carry the nuclear waste to the DGR site.

In the winter, our highway has been closed up to three times a week because of accidents.  It has been nicknamed the "Highway of Death."  How are these trucks supposed to travel without delays?  There is no alternative rouite.  What would the exposure be to a car stuck behind them?

In Ontario, people have  been given driving licenses for business vehicles who don't have proper training.  Eight people fromp Southern Ontario are now upon charges (Jan 28, 2026.)  OPP investigation into commercial driver examination in Kingston and the Greater Toronto area.

It is absolutely crucial that there will be a full impact assessment done by the Impact Assessment Agency of Canada on this DGR project and it definitely needs to include transportation.  Without the transportation of nuclear waste to the Revell site there will be no Deep Geological Repository built and operated here.