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IGNACE — Residents and property owners began voting just after midnight Friday on whether they support Ignace moving forward as a potential host community for a nuclear waste repository.
Speakers will include Dr. Mark Winfield, discussing "Does Nuclear Energy Fit in a Sustainable Energy Future?" and Laura Tanguay, speaking on "Decisions on Radioactive Nuclear Waste: Are They Just?
The committee invited stakeholders, federal departments, and the public to submit briefs related to freshwater and received 56 briefs, including one from the Northern Ontario alliance, We the Nuclear Free North.
The Standing Committee on Environment and Sustainable Development, which began in the spring of 2021, will recommence its comprehensive study of the role of the federal government in protecting and
First Nations leaders took their opposition to a recently approved radioactive waste disposal site near the Ottawa River to Parliament Hill February 14, calling on the federal government to halt the project that they say threatens drinking water, wildlife and their fundamental rights.