A 2nd Ontario community has actually officially determined it wants to come to be the website of a deep geological database for Canada’s hazardous waste.
The Municipality of South Bruce, situated southern of Owen Sound, held a vote placing the inquiry to its homeowners and the outcomes launched today reveal they elected 51 percent in favour of the proposition.
The Nuclear Waste Management Organization prepares to pick a website this year where countless packages of utilized nuclear gas will certainly be positioned in a network of basements linked by spacious passages.
The procedure for the $26-billion job has actually currently been limited to 2 websites, Ignace in north Ontario and South Bruce, and the company has actually stated both the regional community and the First Nation in those locations will certainly need to accept be hosts.
Ignace, in between Thunder Bay and Kenora, in July ended up being the very first neighborhood to make its choice recognized, as community council enacted favour of a hazardous waste database at an unique conference.
Attention currently will certainly transform to Wabigoon Lake Ojibway Nation in north Ontario and Saugeen Ojibway Nation, to see if they share the exact same desire as Ignace and South Bruce.
This record by The Canadian Press was very first releasedOct 28, 2024.
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