Advocates call for more input on northwest Ontario nuclear repository
Global News
Northwestern Ontario and Manitoba-based advocates say more people should have a say on whether a nuclear repository is established near Ignace and Wabigoon Lake Ojibway Nation.
Winnipegger Anne Lindsey has been anti-nuclear for nearly 30 years. She first got involved with environmental activism in the 1970s when the Manitoba government tried to implement a nuclear repository in her province.
“People here were very upset about the notion that, possibly in Lac Du Bonnet, we could have a huge nuclear waste repository” she said.
Lindsey says the province heard their concerns, and eventually passed The High-Level Radioactive Waste Act, which prohibits the long-term storage of nuclear waste in Manitoba.
Today, she’s still advocating as part the Manitoba Energy Justice Coalition. Although Lindsey’s proud to see her community remain nuclear-free, she fears a project like the one she fought against decades ago threatens the provinces environment.
The proposed nuclear waste repository is based in an area near Ignace Ontario, and Wabigoon Lake Ojibway Nation. The Nuclear Waste Management Organization (NWMO), a group funded by the producers of nuclear energy in Quebec, Ontario, and New Brunswick, was mandated by the Canadian government to safely contain nuclear waste from those three provinces inside underground repository’s that are expected to sit more than 500 meters underground.
Using a multiple barrier system, used fuel pellets would be stored in larger bundles which would then be grouped together with others, and stored inside a copper coated steel container. These would then be stored together underground in dry rooms surrounded by rock.
The NWMO is projecting between 5.7 and 6.4 million bundles will be placed underground.
Lindsey is firmly against the project. She believes it is a risk to her province, because the proposed site is surrounded by waters that flows west down the English-Wabigoon River system into the Winnipeg River, and eventually Lake Winnipeg.
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