Opposed to bringing nuclear waste out of Southern Ontario into Northwestern Ontario.

Reference Number
549
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I strongly oppose the nuclear waste dump site being located a short distance upstream from my home town of Dryden, especially when our community was not proposed as the host community.  Why would the upstream community of Ignace get to be the host community and get the vote?  Why did I not get a vote or the community of Wabigoon, Vermilion Bay, Kenora etc.?   The few people who voted for this should be public information.  

The nuclear industry knows the nuclear waste will outlast the containers so they not only want to get it out of the Great Lakes watershed surrounded by communities that benefit from the nuclear industry, they want to truck it 1900 km by mostly single lane highway, (accidents and incidents will happen) through sensitive sites and main streets of communities, forever (since the nuclear energy plants are being built, not shut down), and get into a low populated area that drains into Hudson Bay.

I predict and hope that a future court case questions the underhanded way this project has been conducted by selecting the site over 20 years ago, claiming Dryden has special stable rock formations, paying off the Wabigoon First Nations people to the tune of over $140,000 per person, leaving Dryden off the host community list when it is the closest downstream community, (Ignace is upstream).  How underhanded and corrupt is that?

Submitted by
David Salter
Phase
Planning
Public Notice
Public Notice - Comments invited on the summary of the Initial Project Description and funding available
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Date Submitted
2026-02-04 - 9:47 PM
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