Challenge the Proponent to demonstrate 100% self-sufficiency in fire suppression and emergency response capacity for the proposed heating plant and associated industrial infrastructure.
Strategic Rationale
"The Proponent's submission identifies a large-scale heating plant as the core industrial component of the facility. Such infrastructure introduces specific fire and industrial accident risks to the township. Melgund is an unorganized territory with zero local fire, police, or ambulance services. Reliance on distant regional hubs in Ignace or Dryden for an emergency at a high-output heating plant creates an unacceptable safety risk for the local population and the environment. The proponent must be mandated to provide 100% of the emergency response capacity on-site. This is an opportunity for the proponent to enhance local safety by ensuring that their industrial footprint does not strain non-existent local resources or distant regional services."
Source Context
Understanding the Impacts of Nuclear Waste on our Community
This digital archive houses the public comments submitted to the Impact Assessment Agency of Canada regarding Project 88774: The Nuclear Waste Management Organization Deep Geological Repository (DGR) for Canada's Used Nuclear Fuel Project. The impact assessment is led jointly by the Impact Assessment Agency of Canada and the Canadian Nuclear Safety Commission. This archive preserves community perspectives, concerns, and observations shared during the assessment process, particularly in relation to Melgund Township, Northwestern Ontario and the communities of Dyment and Borups Corners who are the closest and most impacted of all in the process.