Originally published: 25 May 2017

The Canadian Environmental Assessment Agency asked Ontario Power Generation (OPG) to provide additional information regarding their plan to bury nuclear waste in a Deep Geologic Repository (DGR) on the shore of Lake Huron.

The Agency chastised OPG for its superficial exploration of alternative locations and emphasized that indigenous peoples’ perspectives need to be better represented. This is the SIXTH time OPG has been asked to provide more information on the project.

Tomorrow, on May 26th, 2017, OPG will respond to the Agency's April 5th request for more information.

Listen to our Vice President, Ellen Dailey, discuss the risks of building a nuclear waste dump near the lake and why we should fight to protect it.

See the full interview

Read SOS Great Lakes' press release

Read SOS Great Lakes' submission to the CEAA

Video Transcript:

Text: Paul Miller interviews Ellen Dailey, VP of SOS Great Lakes, April 7th, 2017

The Environmental Agency [CEAA] just issued its report Wednesday evening [April 5, 2017], and asked, again, for additional information about alternative sites. From our reckoning this is about the sixth time that OPG has been asked to look specifically at alternative sites.

Alternative means of the project is a specific requirement of the Canadian Environmental Assessment Act, and they [OPG] just have not fulfilled this request…

They [CEAA] want specific information about sites: alternative locations away from the lake…

I think the Assessment Agency [CEAA] understood the public’s concerns, they understood the experts’ concerns that weighed in on this, and they took that information seriously and have asked OPG to step up to the plate.