Deep Geological Repository (DGR) for Canada's Used Nuclear Fuel Project

Attachment Second comment: Nuclear Waste Management Organization proposal

• Deep Geological Repository (DGR) for Canada's Used Nuclear Fuel Project
• Author: Administrator on behalf of Sustainable Energy Group – Carleton Chapter
• Reference Number: 674
• Submitted: 2026-02-06
• Project Phase: Planning
• Participation Notice: Public Notice - Comments invited on the summary of the Initial Project Description and funding available
• See the attached submission / Veuillez consulter la pièce jointe
• Attachment Included
• To: Impact Assessment Agency of Canada (IAAC) Date: 02.02.26 From: Sustainable Energy Group, Carleton County, New Brunswick – Second Comment RE: Nuclear Waste Management Organization (NWMO) proposal for an underground deep geological repository (DGR) system near Ignace, Ontario. By email: nuclearwaste-dechetsnucleaires@iaac- aeic.gc.ca The International Court of Justice (ICJ) in the Hague issued its Advisory Opinion July 23, 2025: OBLIGATIONS OF STATES IN RESPECT OF CLIMATE CHANGE https://www.icj-cij.org/sites/default/files/case-related/187/187-20250723-pre-01-00-en.pdf ~~~~~~~~~~~~ The ICJ Advisory Opinion would be breached by the IAAC with the approval of the transport of high-level nuclear waste by road or rail to the deep geological repository (DGR) near Ignace, ON, resulting in CO2 emissions accelerating global warming. The same applies to the 2016 Paris Agreement on climate change signed by Canada. Transporting hazardous nuclear waste would certainly ...

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Attachment Stop NWMO's DGR

• Deep Geological Repository (DGR) for Canada's Used Nuclear Fuel Project
• Author: StopNuclearWorkgroup
• Reference Number: 612
• Submitted: 2026-02-05 - 12:53 AM
• Project Phase: Planning
• Participation Notice: Public Notice - Comments invited on the summary of the Initial Project Description and funding available
• Dear NWMO, I haven't, and it seems your constiuents haven't either, had time to fully review the impacts of this DGR.  From the little I've gleaned so far, this seems like a very rash and dangerous endeavor, poorly planned and in the true nuclear industrial fashion, concocted and pushed forward in a very non-transparent way excluding the public to be severely impacted by this project.  In the U.S. citizens critical of nuclear energy are horrified by the recent agreement between Canada and the NW Compact states to take Canada's nuclear waste and dispose of it in Clive, Utah.  As with the DGR this was agreed upon without due diligence in including the public, and the transporation aspect of the movement of this waste, though it is low level, presents a great danger.  This waste dump in Utah does not have the support of community and it threatens the Great Salt Lake--another environmental catastrophe.  I urge Canada to ...

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Attachment Highway studies

• Deep Geological Repository (DGR) for Canada's Used Nuclear Fuel Project
• Author: Dryden surrounding area First Nation
• Reference Number: 611
• Submitted: 2026-02-05 - 12:51 AM
• Project Phase: Planning
• Participation Notice: Public Notice - Comments invited on the summary of the Initial Project Description and funding available
• Would like to see more highway studies , is it safe to move nuclear waste on the highways?  Also, what are current earth quake statistics in the proposed area and surrounding? 

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Attachment Opposed to nuclear waste in northwestern Ontario

• Deep Geological Repository (DGR) for Canada's Used Nuclear Fuel Project
• Author: Erika Olson
• Reference Number: 610
• Submitted: 2026-02-05 - 12:48 AM
• Project Phase: Planning
• Participation Notice: Public Notice - Comments invited on the summary of the Initial Project Description and funding available
• I write as a long time resident of northwestern Ontario, an ecologist, and a community member. I am strongly opposed to nuclear waste being transported through and stored in northern Ontario. People in our area do not use the electricity produced by nuclear power, but are being pressured to accept the forever-dangerous waste products and all of the risk. There is no safe way to transport these materials through the north. Our area is prone to extreme weather conditions and catastrophic forest fires. Northern Ontario is not the right solution for southern Ontario's radioactive waste. I have serious concerns about the lack of real consultation with Indigenous communities, from a human rights standpoint. I have serious concerns from an environmental standpoint. I realize that money is no object when it comes to buying consent - nobody wants this waste in their backyard, for obvious and legitimate reasons. It is time to prioritize safer energy generation practices. It is unethical ...

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Attachment Concerned about transportation and other things

• Deep Geological Repository (DGR) for Canada's Used Nuclear Fuel Project
• Author: Emma Gardner
• Reference Number: 609
• Submitted: 2026-02-05 - 12:27 AM
• Project Phase: Planning
• Participation Notice: Public Notice - Comments invited on the summary of the Initial Project Description and funding available
• The nuclear waste will be transported on a highway which is a common site for accidents in the winter and summer conditions. Something that stood out to me was from 10.3 "Transportation of Dangerous Goods Regulations and are not considered part of the Project’s designated or incidental activities." Yes, while this project is not solely responsible for the regulations on transporting dangerous goods, and I can see why it is excluded in the report- I am curious to know where I should look for the company's plan for if things go wrong. if there is an accident on the highway, if there is an issue and the nuclear waste does not make it to the storage site or has leaked out somewhere in transport to the site, how much is NWMO responsible for? If there are any potential risks that happen and result damage to the environment and the surrounding communities, what happens? Is there a plan to fix or manage spills should they occur? What is the plan, and how are the people ...

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Attachment Water protection

• Deep Geological Repository (DGR) for Canada's Used Nuclear Fuel Project
• Author: Rhonda Snow
• Reference Number: 608
• Submitted: 2026-02-05 - 12:20 AM
• Project Phase: Planning
• Participation Notice: Public Notice - Comments invited on the summary of the Initial Project Description and funding available
• I live on a Houseboat on Rainy Lake for half the year .  I am Annishinabe and I live with what I believe is the most beautiful wildlife creatation in the world. NWO.  NWMO have been dividing communities against either other by not allowing NWO a fair voice and not  treating everyone with the same respect  There is a reason that other countries are taking a step back with the development of high level nuclear fuel. With that as a fact the nuclear industry  has put the power before the knowledge as to designing that has cause a catastrophic decision to deal with and NWO never asked to be connected to.  The transportation is disastrous.  It's not even included in this  assessment as recommended . . Mother Earth should never have herself opened up and to stick the HL nuclear in her. It is just so very dangerous and wring. No proof of safety on route nor in Watershed ...

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Attachment Impact assessment

• Deep Geological Repository (DGR) for Canada's Used Nuclear Fuel Project
• Author: Administrator on behalf of Erin Bottle
• Reference Number: 677
• Submitted: 2026-02-05 - 12:15 AM
• Project Phase: Planning
• Participation Notice: Public Notice - Comments invited on the summary of the Initial Project Description and funding available
• See the attached submission / Veuillez consulter la pièce jointe
• Attachment Included
• 1 Subject: FW: Impact Assessment From: Erin Bottle Sent: Thursday, February 5, 2026 12:15 AM To: Nuclear Waste / Déchets Nucléaires (IAAC/AEIC) <nuclearwaste-dechetsnucleaires@iaac-aeic.gc.ca> Subject: Re: Impact Assessment TO WHOM IT MAY CONCERN My name is Erin Bottle, decendant of Nomadic Clan of the Anishnawbe Nation on Unceeded Treaty 9 James Bay Territory member registry under the Mishkeegogamang Ojibway Nation 203 I am writing to assert my bloodline lineage in protetion of Traditional lands & waterways in the Hieght of Land Territory. I strongly oppose the destruction of our waters ways & traditional lands as the Nuclear Waste Management Organization has not given free and prior informed consent to the Traditional Title Rights holders of our Nation & therefore is in direct violation of Nation to Nation Treaty Agreements to preserve ALL LIFE as Long As the Grass Grows, As Long As the Rivets Flow & As long as the Sun Shall Shine. Under International Laws ...

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Attachment Concerns re DGR for Nuclear Waste proposed by NWMO near Ignace ON

• Deep Geological Repository (DGR) for Canada's Used Nuclear Fuel Project
• Author: Michelle Shephard
• Reference Number: 607
• Submitted: 2026-02-05 - 12:02 AM
• Project Phase: Planning
• Participation Notice: Public Notice - Comments invited on the summary of the Initial Project Description and funding available
• Dear Sirs/Madams: Being a resident in the area I am deeply concerned about the proposed deep geological repository for nuclear waste proposed by NWMO near Ignace ON.    I am concerned about the lack of inclusion and engagement of impacted parties. Besides local communities in Northwestern Ontario, I am concerned that indigenous communities will also be highly impacted in terms of their rights and interests on the land. It is my understanding that NWMO Has negated their opportunity to provide critical input regarding land use, and resources in their traditional territories. Specifically, Eagle Lake First Nation has filed a judicial review and opposition, and they have not been properly acknowledged. Their opposition was not included in the project description and this to me, amounts to withholding of information from the public. I am also concerned about the potential impact on the ground water, specifically the Winnipeg River watershed this ...

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Attachment NWMO DGR System - IPD

• Deep Geological Repository (DGR) for Canada's Used Nuclear Fuel Project
• Author: Administrator on behalf of Ecological Justice Working Group of the Justice, Mission and Outreach Committee, Regions East, United Church of Canada
• Reference Number: 648
• Submitted: 2026-02-05 - 12:02 AM
• Project Phase: Planning
• Participation Notice: Public Notice - Comments invited on the summary of the Initial Project Description and funding available
• See the attached submission / Veuillez consulter la pièce jointe
• Attachment Included
• 1 Submission to Impact Assessment Agency Canada February 4, 2026 Comments on the Initial Project Description for the Deep Geological Repository for Canada's Used Nuclear Fuel Project By Ecological Justice Working Group of the Justice, Mission and Outreach Committee, Regions East, United Church of Canada Contact: Dr. Mary Lou Harley Let us not be guided by corporate agenda, by political motives, by military urging, by fear or by overconfidence. Let us be guided by ethical considerations and social values arising from the best efforts of respectful, participatory consultation with the citizens and experts, and by the best of social sciences, natural sciences, and technologies, with the wisdom to acknowledge the uncertainties and limitations of our best. (United Church 2004) This proposal by the Nuclear Waste Management Organization (the NWMO) entitled Deep Geological Repository for Canada's Used Nuclear Fuel Project indicates from this ...

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Attachment NWMO Impact Assessment

• Deep Geological Repository (DGR) for Canada's Used Nuclear Fuel Project
• Author: Administrator on behalf of Jordan Strum
• Reference Number: 649
• Submitted: 2026-02-05 - 12:01 AM
• Project Phase: Planning
• Participation Notice: Public Notice - Comments invited on the summary of the Initial Project Description and funding available
• See the attached submission / Veuillez consulter la pièce jointe
• Attachment Included
• 1 From: Jordan Strum Sent: Thursday, February 5, 2026 12:01 AM To: Nuclear Waste / Déchets Nucléaires (IAAC/AEIC) Subject: NWMO Impact Assessment To whom it may concern, I am wri ng to express my concern regarding the Nuclear Waste Management Organiza on’s (NWMO) proposed deep geological repository for nuclear fuel waste, especially regarding the transporta on of this waste to the proposed site. Long-distance transporta on of waste materials must be included in the review process. With considera on for the frequent occurrence of transport-related accidents along highways 11 and 17, I believe that the poten al for environmental consequences and loss of life resul ng from long-distance transporta on must not be overlooked. I would implore your team to carefully consider the poten al environmental impact of a containment breach along the transit route. Much of Highway 17 runs directly alongside Lake Superior, our na on's greatest freshwater reservoir, at mes from ...

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Attachment Demande d’inclure l’impacts du transport dans l’évaluation d’impacts du projet de dépôt géologique en profondeur

• Deep Geological Repository (DGR) for Canada's Used Nuclear Fuel Project
• Author: Administrator on behalf of Patrick Bonin
• Reference Number: 620
• Submitted: 2026-02-05
• Project Phase: Planning
• Participation Notice: Public Notice - Comments invited on the summary of the Initial Project Description and funding available
• See the attached submission / Veuillez consulter la pièce jointe
• Attachment Included
• 1 PATRICK BONIN Député fédéral Repentigny CIRCONSCRIPTION 184, Notre-Dame Bureau 201 Repentigny (Québec) J6A 2P9 Tél. : 450-581-3896 Fax : 450-581-9958 patrick.bonin@parl.gc.ca OTTAWA Bureau 313, Édifice de la Confédération Chambre des communes Ottawa (Ontario) K1A 0A6 Tél. : 613-992-5257 Fax : 613-996-4338 Chambre des communes Ottawa, le 4 février 2026 L’honorable Julie Dabrusin, Ministre de l’Environnement, du Changement climatique et de la Nature La Commission de Sureté Nucléaire du Canada L’Agence d’évaluation d’impact la Société de gestion des déchets nucléaires PAR COURRIEL Objet : Demande d’inclure l’impacts du transport dans l’évaluation d’impacts du projet de dépôt géologique en profondeur Madame la ministre, membres de la Commission de Sureté Nucléaire du Canada, de l’Agence d’évaluation d’impact et de la Société de gestion des déchets nucléaires ...

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Attachment MISSISSAUGAS OF SCUGOG ISLAND FIRST NATION (MSIFN) COMMENTS TO THE IMPACT ASSESSMENT AGENCY OF CANADA (IAAC) ON THE SUMMARY OF THE INITIAL PROJECT DESCRIPTION – DEEP GEOLOGICAL REPOSITORY (DGR) FOR CANADA’S USED NUCLEAR FUEL PROJECT

• Deep Geological Repository (DGR) for Canada's Used Nuclear Fuel Project
• Author: Administrator on behalf of Mississaugas of Scugog Island First Nation
• Reference Number: 627
• Submitted: 2026-02-05
• Project Phase: Planning
• Participation Notice: Public Notice - Comments invited on the summary of the Initial Project Description and funding available
• See the attached submission / Veuillez consulter la pièce jointe
• Attachment Included
• 1 MISSISSAUGAS OF SCUGOG ISLAND FIRST NATION (MSIFN) COMMENTS TO THE IMPACT ASSESSMENT AGENCY OF CANADA (IAAC) ON THE SUMMARY OF THE INITIAL PROJECT DESCRIPTION – DEEP GEOLOGICAL REPOSITORY (DGR) FOR CANADA’S USED NUCLEAR FUEL PROJECT February 4, 2026 Submitted via email to NuclearWaste-DechetsNucleaires@iaac-aeic.gc.ca. 1. Introduction The Mississaugas of Scugog Island First Nation (MSIFN), as part of the Michi Saagiig Anishinaabeg and signatories to the Williams Treaties, appreciates the opportunity to provide comments on the Summary of the Initial Project Description for the proposed Deep Geological Repository (DGR) for Canada’s used nuclear fuel project. Our community’s treaty and traditional territories encompass key components of the existing nuclear fuel cycle, including the Darlington and Pickering nuclear facilities and current on-site storage of used nuclear fuel bundles. MSIFN’s interests in this initiative are grounded in our treaty rights, ...

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Attachment NWMO Proposal for deep geological repository for nuclear waste, Ignace

• Deep Geological Repository (DGR) for Canada's Used Nuclear Fuel Project
• Author: Administrator on behalf of Judie Garbo
• Reference Number: 652
• Submitted: 2026-02-05
• Project Phase: Planning
• Participation Notice: Public Notice - Comments invited on the summary of the Initial Project Description and funding available
• See the attached submission / Veuillez consulter la pièce jointe
• Attachment Included
• Feb 4, 2026 Impact Assessment Agency Re: NWMO Proposal for Deep Geological Repository (NGR) for used nuclear fuel waste, Ignace This letter is to advise your agency that I, as a resident of Ontario and raised in northern Ontario, am against the proposal of the Nuclear Waste Management Organization. I am deeply concerned on the state of Ontario and Canada with ongoing climate warming and the resulting disasters. I have no faith that our current Ontario legislature will act proactively and responsibly after they have removed many protections for the environment. After listening to a video produced by Dr. Gordon Edwards, Ph. D, President of the Canadian Coalition for Nuclear Responsibility (1), I am better aware of the process of producing nuclear energy and the facts regarding nuclear fuel waste. These are my main concerns: Concern #1: There is no proven safe long-term storage of nuclear waste. Nuclear waste will take over 10 million years before it is reduced. ...

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Attachment Elizabeth Angeconeb

• Deep Geological Repository (DGR) for Canada's Used Nuclear Fuel Project
• Author: Administrator on behalf of Elizabeth Angeconeb
• Reference Number: 669
• Submitted: 2026-02-05
• Project Phase: Planning
• Participation Notice: Public Notice - Comments invited on the summary of the Initial Project Description and funding available
• See the attached submission / Veuillez consulter la pièce jointe
• Attachment Included
• 1/3 E.Angeconeb Comments re Initial Project Description summary Deep Geological Repository (DGR) for Canada’s Used Nuclear Fuel Project The Nuclear Waste Management Organization has announced that Wabigoon Lake Ojibway Nation has been selected along with the town of Ignace in NW Ontario as the location for the building of a DGR that will contain all the used radioactive material from nuclear plants across Canada. A federal impact assessment must take place, given the dangers involved and the distances the nuclear waste has to be transported on roads and highways across Canada and through the many communities located on those routes along the way. As a registered member of Lac Seul First Nation, signatory to Treaty 3 in northwestern Ontario, I am not in favour of locating a DGR in Treaty 3 Territory, and I oppose the deep burial of any nuclear waste. I also have relatives who are members of Serpent River First Nation, which is in the Robinson Huron Treaty ...

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Attachment No nuclear waste in NWO

• Deep Geological Repository (DGR) for Canada's Used Nuclear Fuel Project
• Author: Administrator on behalf of Will Percy
• Reference Number: 629
• Submitted: 2026-02-04 - 11:57 PM
• Project Phase: Planning
• Participation Notice: Public Notice - Comments invited on the summary of the Initial Project Description and funding available
• See the attached submission / Veuillez consulter la pièce jointe
• Attachment Included
• 1 From: William Percy Sent: Wednesday, February 4, 2026 11:57 PM To: Nuclear Waste / Déchets Nucléaires (IAAC/AEIC) Subject: No nuclear waste in NWO To whom it may concern. I’m writing to tell you that I am completely against the plan to build a nuclear waste dump near Ignace. I live and work in Northwestern Ontario, and I think this is a bad idea that puts our home at risk. My biggest worry is that it will poison our land and water forever. We have clean lakes and rivers here. One accident or leak over the hundreds of years this waste will be dangerous could ruin that for everyone who comes after us. We shouldn’t have to carry that risk. I also don’t think our area can handle it. We already don’t have enough hospitals or doctors out here. Our highways are bad—they’re narrow, not built for heavy traffic, and scary to drive in the winter. Bringing nuclear waste through here on those roads for years sounds like a disaster waiting to happen. A lot of people I ...

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Attachment Love North Western Ontario

• Deep Geological Repository (DGR) for Canada's Used Nuclear Fuel Project
• Author: Kristine Olson
• Reference Number: 606
• Submitted: 2026-02-04 - 11:56 PM
• Project Phase: Planning
• Participation Notice: Public Notice - Comments invited on the summary of the Initial Project Description and funding available
• I am adding my voice to the many other voices in opposition to this dangerous plan to dump high level nuclear waste in Northwestern Ontario.  As a long time resident and someone very active in opposition, this area is very near and dear to my heart.  I love our wilderness and the wildness you can feel in every pore of your body and breathe in from the cool fresh air.  Smell the forest and feel the refreshing and life giving energy from swimming in the many lakes.  In fact we are part of a very large watershed area that reaches Lake Winnipeg from the south travelling along the Northern United States and also west into Lake of the Woods which connects to Lake Winnipeg and ultimately reaching the Nelson River into Hudsons Bay.  We are all connected in this very sensitive area that needs to be protected at all costs.   We are the northern part of the province which should be considered a treasure for water resources ...

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Attachment Rejection of the proponent's initial project description and call to suspend the impact assessment

• Deep Geological Repository (DGR) for Canada's Used Nuclear Fuel Project
• Author: Mary McPherson
• Reference Number: 605
• Submitted: 2026-02-04 - 11:55 PM
• Project Phase: Planning
• Participation Notice: Public Notice - Comments invited on the summary of the Initial Project Description and funding available
• To: Impact Assessment Agency of Canada Re: Rejection of the Proponent’s Initial Project Description and call to suspend the impact assessment My name is Mary McPherson and I am an Anishinaabe member of Couchiching First Nation, currently residing in Thunder Bay. Since time immemorial, my ancestors have lived on the lands that are now covered by Treaty #3. I urge the Impact Assessment Agency of Canada (“Agency”) to reject the Nuclear Waste Management Organization’s (“NWMO”) Initial Project Description (“IPD”) of the deep geological repository for Canada’s used nuclear fuel (“DGR”, Project No. 88774), and to suspend the impact assessment, for the following reasons. Excluded from the scope of the IPD is the transportation of radioactive waste to the project site from ...

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Attachment Opposed to proposed site of deep geological repository (DGR) in Northwestern Ontario

• Deep Geological Repository (DGR) for Canada's Used Nuclear Fuel Project
• Author: Darlene Salter
• Reference Number: 604
• Submitted: 2026-02-04 - 11:55 PM
• Project Phase: Planning
• Participation Notice: Public Notice - Comments invited on the summary of the Initial Project Description and funding available
• I am submitting this comment in strong opposition to the proposed Deep Geological Repository project by Nuclear Waste Management Organization within Treaty 3 territory. I am opposed on the basis of irreversible environmental risk, violations of Indigenous sovereignty, the transportation of nuclear waste so far from its production and deeply flawed consultation processes.   I have been a resident of Dryden and Northwestern Ontario since 1974. The wilderness and the thousands of clean freshwater lakes attracted me to my first job after graduating with a Bachelor of Science Degree from Sir George Williams University (now Concordia). Swimming is one of my favourite physical activities. Swimming in my hometown of Deux Montagnes occurred in the polluted water of the Riviere des Mille Iles or driving into the Laurentians. The forest woodlots were disappearing as the suburbs grew. Aside from the polluted Wabigoon River, the ...

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Attachment Public Comments re: APM-REP-05000-0211-R000, Prepared by: Nuclear Waste Management Organization (NWMO), Initial Project Description Plain Language Summary (English) – Deep Geological Repository (DGR) for Canada’s Used Nuclear Fuel Project, December 202...

• Deep Geological Repository (DGR) for Canada's Used Nuclear Fuel Project
• Author: Administrator on behalf of Kevin Camps
• Reference Number: 680
• Submitted: 2026-02-04 - 11:55 PM
• Project Phase: Planning
• Participation Notice: Public Notice - Comments invited on the summary of the Initial Project Description and funding available
• See the attached submission / Veuillez consulter la pièce jointe
• Attachment Included
• Public Comments re: APM-REP-05000-0211-R000, Prepared by: Nuclear Waste Management Organization (NWMO), Initial Project Description Plain Language Summary (English) – Deep Geological Repository (DGR) for Canada’s Used Nuclear Fuel Project, December 2025 Comments prepared and submitted (via <nuclearwaste-dechetsnucleaires@iaac-aeic.gc.ca>) on February 4, 2026 by: Kevin Kamps Radioactive Waste Specialist Beyond Nuclear Comments endorsed by: Michael J. Keegan Chair Coalition for a Nuclear-Free Great Lakes Alice Hirt Board Member Don't Waste Michigan Diane D’Arrigo Radioactive Waste Project Director Nuclear Information and Resource Service (NIRS) Contact: Kevin Kamps, —1— <personal information removed> <personal information removed> <personal information removed> <personal information removed> <contact information removed> Public Comments: The Nuclear Waste Management Organization (NWMO) has congratulated itself repeatedly about its respect ...

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Attachment Judith Fox Lee Submission of Comments on the NWMO Nuclear Waste Project

• Deep Geological Repository (DGR) for Canada's Used Nuclear Fuel Project
• Author: Administrator on behalf of Judith Fox Lee
• Reference Number: 626
• Submitted: 2026-02-04 - 11:55 PM
• Project Phase: Planning
• Participation Notice: Public Notice - Comments invited on the summary of the Initial Project Description and funding available
• See the attached submission / Veuillez consulter la pièce jointe  
• Attachment Included
• 1 From: Judith Fox Lee Sent: Wednesday, February 4, 2026 11:55 PM To: Nuclear Waste / Déchets Nucléaires (IAAC/AEIC) Subject: Judith Fox Lee Submission of Comments on the NWMO Nuclear Waste Project To Whom It May Concern, The Nuclear Waste Management Organization’s proposed Deep Geological Repository for high-level radioactive waste program was launched with an Initial Project Description on January 5, 2026, with a 30- day comment period on it. Here is in section A, a list of all my Deep and Serious Specific Concerns, followed by my critique of the global problem of nuclear wastes within the current and historical aspects of the entire nuclear industry worldwide in section B Section A, Specific Concerns: 1. Thirty days is simply not enough time for members of the public, the scientific community, indigenous and other community groups to study the proposal and prepare their comments. This indicates to me that the federal government is trying to ram this proposal ...

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Attachment concerned about transportation and storage of nuclear waste in treaty 3 territory

• Deep Geological Repository (DGR) for Canada's Used Nuclear Fuel Project
• Author: Kanina Terry
• Reference Number: 603
• Submitted: 2026-02-04 - 11:52 PM
• Project Phase: Planning
• Participation Notice: Public Notice - Comments invited on the summary of the Initial Project Description and funding available
• I am a member of Lac Seul/Obishikokaang First Nation, a mother, artist, hide tanner, harvester, and food sovereignty advocate based in Sioux Lookout, Ontario.  My grandfather was a commercial fisherman on Lac Seul, a lake that was flooded 100 years ago to made into a reservoir for a hydro-electric dam to provide electricity to Manitoba. The raised water levels from the dam covered our medicines, manoomin (wild rice) bed, and much more. I feel the effects of that loss today. I live close to HWY 17, the proposed transportation route for this nuclear waste, and use it often to travel to Thunder Bay. In winter months I hear of highway closures from transport collisions once or twice a week – these collisions happen in warmer months as well. I cannot fathom this hwy being used to transport nuclear waste.  Transportation must be included in the impact assessment. I am concerned about the long-term safety of a deep geologic repository in this territory. ...

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Attachment My concerns regarding the NWMO project

• Deep Geological Repository (DGR) for Canada's Used Nuclear Fuel Project
• Author: James Hutchins
• Reference Number: 602
• Submitted: 2026-02-04 - 11:51 PM
• Project Phase: Planning
• Participation Notice: Public Notice - Comments invited on the summary of the Initial Project Description and funding available
• I am writing this comment to make my concerns about the geological repository for nuclear fuel waste which the Nuclear Waste Management Organization (NWMO) is proposing to construct and operate between Ignace and Dryden in northwestern Ontario.  While I have many, many concerns about the project itself, the method of selecting the site and the site selection itself, my comments tonight are on the Impact Assessment review process which began on January 5th and the NWMO’s “initial project description”. First of all I want to note that the 30-day comment period is way too short. So many people who are concerned about this project, especially about the transportation of the radioactive waste itself to and from the site, will not have even heard about the comment period before it's already over. As well as those of us who were alerted to the comment period, it is far too short a period of time to come up with well informed commentary on just ...

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Attachment Opposed

• Deep Geological Repository (DGR) for Canada's Used Nuclear Fuel Project
• Author: Elizabeth Woodside
• Reference Number: 601
• Submitted: 2026-02-04 - 11:48 PM
• Project Phase: Planning
• Participation Notice: Public Notice - Comments invited on the summary of the Initial Project Description and funding available
• I am a settler living on Anishinaabe territory, in Thunder Bay, Ontario. I am gravely concerned about the potential for irreversible and catastrophic consequences of this project. In terms of risk management, this project appears to have a very high likelihood of incident(s) (particularly in transportation) and very, very high consequence should an incident occur. The risk of nuclear contamination of our water and ecosystems and the risk to human safety and well-being is immeasurable against any economic rationale. I am also concerned about the short comment period provided. This project requires a widely informed and engaged community consultation and rigorous ethical considerations given the severity and longevity of the impacts being considered and the span of watersheds at risk of impact. Liz Woodside

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Attachment Review Needed

• Deep Geological Repository (DGR) for Canada's Used Nuclear Fuel Project
• Author: Melissa Seguin
• Reference Number: 600
• Submitted: 2026-02-04 - 11:48 PM
• Project Phase: Planning
• Participation Notice: Public Notice - Comments invited on the summary of the Initial Project Description and funding available
• The practices by which the NWMO achieved town "approval" were deplorable. Those who asked questions or held opposing views were bullied, harassed and belittled online to the point of defamation. NWMO staff and town leaders observed, tolerated and in some cases encouraged overt abuse of town members and the public trying to have input. This caused real suffering for families and divided the town. It went on and on for years and they would stop at nothing to move the project forward. This was not a deal made in good faith, nor was the information properly available or explained when questions were asked. Extensive online activity has now been deleted after behind the scenes pressure, but records prove the truth. I call foul play. 

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Attachment My concerns regarding this project

• Deep Geological Repository (DGR) for Canada's Used Nuclear Fuel Project
• Author: Hetty Blundell
• Reference Number: 599
• Submitted: 2026-02-04 - 11:47 PM
• Project Phase: Planning
• Participation Notice: Public Notice - Comments invited on the summary of the Initial Project Description and funding available
• I am writing to you tonight to express my concerns regarding the Nuclear Waste Management Organization’s proposed deep geological repository for nuclear fuel waste which the NWMO is proposing to construct and operate between Ignace and Dryden in northwestern Ontario. While I have many concerns about the project itself, the method of selecting the site and the site selection itself. My comments tonight are specifically on the Impact Assessment review process which began on January 5th and the NWMO’s “initial project description”.  Firstly, the 30-day comment period is far too short. Many people who are concerned about this project, especially when you include the transportation of the radioactive waste to the site, will not have even heard about the comment period before its long over. Not to mention that for those of us who were alerted to the comment period it is a very short period of time to formulate well informed commentary on the ...

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Attachment The NWMO's Duty to Consult with Neighboring First Nations under the UNDRIP Act (2021)

• Deep Geological Repository (DGR) for Canada's Used Nuclear Fuel Project
• Author: Seine River First Nation
• Reference Number: 598
• Submitted: 2026-02-04 - 11:45 PM
• Project Phase: Planning
• Participation Notice: Public Notice - Comments invited on the summary of the Initial Project Description and funding available
• My name is Jesslynn Friday and I am from Seine River First Nation, which is located in Treaty Three territory. I am writing to express my recommendations regarding the Deep Geological Repository (DGR) for Canada’s Used Nuclear Fuel Project. I suggest that the NWMO work with the neighboring First Nations regarding the Crown’s duty to consult and accommodate, as guided by the decision of the Supreme Court of Canada in fulfilling the NWMO’s obligations under the Nuclear Fuel Waste Act (Government of Canada 2002) AND the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples Act (Government of Canada 2021).  As an Anishinaabe youth of Treaty Three I express my utmost defiance to the Deep Geological Repository (DGR) for Canada’s Used Nuclear Fuel Project that will cause irreversible environmental degradation to the homelands of many. However, within the small range of this comment, I uphold my position ...

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Attachment Thoughts on Transportation of used fuel to the Revell site.

• Deep Geological Repository (DGR) for Canada's Used Nuclear Fuel Project
• Author: David Jaremy
• Reference Number: 597
• Submitted: 2026-02-04 - 11:43 PM
• Project Phase: Planning
• Participation Notice: Public Notice - Comments invited on the summary of the Initial Project Description and funding available
•   Used Nuclear Fuel Transportation   I would like to take this opportunity to reflect upon one particular challenge within the long term plan for Canada’s used nuclear fuel.  In particular, the transportation question.   I will start by saying, once again, I support the NWMO plan to store Canada’s used nuclear fuel in a Deep Geological Repository.  I am keenly interested in how the transportation question will be handled.   With the DGR site being located a great distance from where the used fuel is currently housed, transportation becomes an important issue.  As I see it, there are two 3 options:  1.  Transport via provincial highways.  2.  Transportation via railroad.  3.  A combination thereof.   I would like to ...
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Attachment NWMO’s Exclusion of Eagle Lake First Nation in Nuclear Waste Site Selection Violates UNDRIP and Court Rulings

• Deep Geological Repository (DGR) for Canada's Used Nuclear Fuel Project
• Author: Annie Courchene
• Reference Number: 596
• Submitted: 2026-02-04 - 11:42 PM
• Project Phase: Planning
• Participation Notice: Public Notice - Comments invited on the summary of the Initial Project Description and funding available
• The United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples [UNDRIP] has been adopted into domestic Canadian law through the UNDRIP Act as confirmed by the Supreme Court of Canada in Reference re An Act Respecting First Nations, Inuit and Métis children, youth and families. Article 29.2 of UNDRIP says that "states shall take effective measures to ensure that no storage or disposal of hazardous materials shall take place in the lands or territories of indigenous peoples without their free, prior and informed consent." The Federal Court of Canada in Kebaowek First Nation v Canadian Nuclear Laboratories recently held that, in the context of the disposal of nuclear waste, the honour of the Crown requires that the Crown deeply consult with the objective of obtaining the consent of the Indigenous peoples affected AND consultations must be conducted in a manner which is tailored to indigenous laws, knowledges, and practices. The Nuclear Waste Management ...

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Attachment Forever waste

• Deep Geological Repository (DGR) for Canada's Used Nuclear Fuel Project
• Author: Lac Suel Watershed
• Reference Number: 595
• Submitted: 2026-02-04 - 11:41 PM
• Project Phase: Planning
• Participation Notice: Public Notice - Comments invited on the summary of the Initial Project Description and funding available
• I am a lifelong resident of Sioux Lookout, Ontario, which lies downstream from this proposed site. To my knowledge, we have been mostly ignored or left out of this decision. As a longtime outsdoorsman and guide of this area, it saddens me to think that one day this may all become a wasteland. It just takes billions in bribery to turn the most scenic and pristine settings into a place that most tourists, which now fill the area in summer months, will want to stay far away from. Transporting this waste on the most accident prone highways, will probably end this experiment before it goes full bore, but which community along the way will take the brunt of this? Maybe the chosen area which has plenty of history with seismic activity will be the end of things here. This isn't just regular waste, it's the ultimate catastrophe. It may be well thought out, and well planned, but it still is an Experiment. Their goal is to move it away from the more vastly populated area. Less ...

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Attachment Comment removed by Administrator due to administrative purposes

• Deep Geological Repository (DGR) for Canada's Used Nuclear Fuel Project
• Author: Grand Council Treaty #3
• Reference Number: 594
• Submitted: 2026-02-04 - 11:40 PM
• Project Phase: Planning
• Participation Notice: Public Notice - Comments invited on the summary of the Initial Project Description and funding available

Attachment Disproportionate Impacts of Radiation on the Human Body

• Deep Geological Repository (DGR) for Canada's Used Nuclear Fuel Project
• Author: Sylvia Green-Guenette
• Reference Number: 593
• Submitted: 2026-02-04 - 11:38 PM
• Project Phase: Planning
• Participation Notice: Public Notice - Comments invited on the summary of the Initial Project Description and funding available
• Not only do the Radiation Standards for the Nuclear Industry need to be totally reassessed, but also the model needs to be revised.  When the standards were set in the 1950s, they used an assumption that they were only needed for men working in the uranium mines, milling operations, refineries, and nuclear reactor sites.  They used what is known as the "Reference Man" for calculations - a young male (25-30 years), 5 ft. 7 in., 154 lbs, environment of 50-68 deg. F., Caucasian from Western Europe or North America.  There was no consideration given for females, prenant women, or children; no thought about health and welfare of people of all ages, i.e. the whole lifespan. I was fortunate to have the opportunity to participate in a course regarding Radiation Biology and Society led by Mary Olson, founder of Generational Radiation Impact Project (GRIP), Cindy Folkers (Beyond Nuclear), and Ian Fairlie (was head of CERRIE Committee, U.K).  These ...

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Attachment Lethal Folly

• Deep Geological Repository (DGR) for Canada's Used Nuclear Fuel Project
• Author: Marlene Elder
• Reference Number: 592
• Submitted: 2026-02-04 - 11:38 PM
• Project Phase: Planning
• Participation Notice: Public Notice - Comments invited on the summary of the Initial Project Description and funding available
• If my father were here he would have submitted a scientific rebuttal to this sham of a 'consultation'. He passed in 1999 but was already attending meetings and protesting the lack of sound science to support burying toxic waste in the Canadian Shield. The Canadian Shield! To those in power, the planet is theirs to plunder or desecrate. The planet does not belong just to humans. And the only humans who have real ties to the land are indigenous. Here in Treaty 3 there has been no meaningful discussion, just marketing, typical greasy palms. Dumping toxic waste here, ripping open and plundering the earth up north after the usual 'consultation'. Who speaks for the water poisoned forever with mercury? For the trees in a land already threatened by clear cutting and now devastated by wildfires? We are in a time of turmoil in the western world. Our allies have become unstable. It is not the time to be burying this waste when war could break out. And ...

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Attachment Comments from We the Nuclear Free North on the NWMO's Initial Project Description - calling for a full impact assessment and public hearing

• Deep Geological Repository (DGR) for Canada's Used Nuclear Fuel Project
• Author: We the Nuclear Free North
• Reference Number: 591
• Submitted: 2026-02-04 - 11:37 PM
• Project Phase: Planning
• Participation Notice: Public Notice - Comments invited on the summary of the Initial Project Description and funding available
• We the Nuclear Free North is an alliance of Indigenous and non-Indigenous people and groups opposed to transporting, processing, burying and abandoning highly radioactive nuclear waste in Northwestern Ontario. The Alliance has been working together for the past six years to share information about the risks and realities of the Nuclear Waste Management Organization’s proposed deep geological repository for all of Canada’s high-level nuclear fuel waste.   In 2020 the NWMO focussed their investigation on two remaining candidate sites: the Teeswater site in South Bruce in southwestern Ontario and the Revell site between Ignace and Dryden in northwestern Ontario. In November 2024 the NWMO announced that it  had selected the Revell site between Ignace and Dryden and began referring to the site as the “Wabigoon Lake Ojibway Nation – Ignace” site.   Just weeks before the NWMO announcement that it ...
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• We the Nuclear Free North is an alliance of Indigenous and non-Indigenous people and groups opposed to transporting, processing, burying and abandoning highly radioactive nuclear waste in Northwestern Ontario. The Alliance has been working together for the past six years to share information about the risks and realities of the Nuclear Waste Management Organization’s proposed deep geological repository for all of Canada’s high-level nuclear fuel waste. In 2020 the NWMO focussed their investigation on two remaining candidate sites: the Teeswater site in South Bruce in southwestern Ontario and the Revell site between Ignace and Dryden in northwestern Ontario. In November 2024 the NWMO announced that it had selected the Revell site between Ignace and Dryden and began referring to the site as the “Wabigoon Lake Ojibway Nation – Ignace” site. Just weeks before the NWMO announcement that it had selected the Revell site in the heart of Treaty 3 territory Treaty ...

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Attachment Concern re: NWMO and need for full impact assessment.

• Deep Geological Repository (DGR) for Canada's Used Nuclear Fuel Project
• Author: H. Stezenko
• Reference Number: 590
• Submitted: 2026-02-04 - 11:36 PM
• Project Phase: Planning
• Participation Notice: Public Notice - Comments invited on the summary of the Initial Project Description and funding available
• I am writing to express my concern about the Nuclear Waste Management Organization’s proposed deep geological repository for nuclear fuel waste which the NWMO is proposing to construct and operate between Ignace and Dryden in northwestern Ontario.  I am concerned regarding the Impact Assessment review process, which began on January 5th, and the NWMO’s “initial project description”.   The 30-day comment period is too short. Many people who are concerned about this project, including the transportation of the radioactive waste to the site, will not have even heard about the comment period and for those of us who were alerted to the comment period, it is a very short period of time to comment on the initial project description. This is an important project that will have impacts far, far into the future.  The review process must be thorough and allow public participation, and a 30-day comment period works against ...

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Attachment Many issues and concerns - attachment provided

• Deep Geological Repository (DGR) for Canada's Used Nuclear Fuel Project
• Author: Diane Swiatlowski
• Reference Number: 589
• Submitted: 2026-02-04 - 11:36 PM
• Project Phase: Planning
• Participation Notice: Public Notice - Comments invited on the summary of the Initial Project Description and funding available
• It appears that NWMO has not met safety and acceptability criteria outlined in the Seaborn Panel Report of 1998. Attachment provided.
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• Comments to IAAC re NWMO DRG Initial Project Description I appreciate being able to provide concerns with this DGR project. I’ve been following this project for a couple of years, and having worked in high-regulated industries (both nuclear and medical device design and manufacturing), this project is worrisome, and literally keeps me up at night. First, I have concerns about the IA process in that the public had only 30 days to respond - especially dealing with a project of this magnitude and an IPD of over 1200 pages. In the spirit of fairness, the NWMO has been working on this for 20 years, others have had the opportunity to review the document for a year, but the public was given only 30 days. This leads me to a concern about this entire process being a “David and Golliath” story. Goliath: NWMO (with a seemingly unlimited budget), funded by the Nuclear waste producers including OPG (93.68% of the funding), NB Power (3.66%) and Hydro Quebec (2.07%), and ...

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Attachment Canadas Plan

• Deep Geological Repository (DGR) for Canada's Used Nuclear Fuel Project
• Author: Walter Truth
• Reference Number: 588
• Submitted: 2026-02-04 - 11:35 PM
• Project Phase: Planning
• Participation Notice: Public Notice - Comments invited on the summary of the Initial Project Description and funding available
• Canadas Plan and NWMO-why was Wabigoon First Nation given 145,000.00 each if there was a yes vote?- I would like Tim Hodgson explain to the people of Canada as this is tax payers money-if NWMO is a non-profit organization why did the Federal Gov't exempt them from telling the Canadian people where all the tax payers money is going-the Nuclear Industry is the most subidized Industry in Canada at 5 to 6 billion dollars a year-in 2005 the Federal Gov't and NWMO cancalled the SeaBorn Panel report that was to protect the people the land and the water and had 6 criterias in it-if the seaborn report was still on the table NWMO would be history as it did protect the people-I have kept a file of all the people that where bullied harrased and name called by the people that where doing these actions-what a go NWMO- I could go on and on about more things but lets talk about the DGR and the false information that NWMO has been putting out -#1 no radiation comes off the trucks-a study ...

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