Formally include 'Local Recreational Land Use' and 'Social Cohesion (Dyment Recreation Hall)' as Valued Components (VCs) in the Impact Statement guidelines to address the gaps in Section 22 of the Proponent's submission.
Strategic Rationale
"The Proponent's submission emphasizes impacts on Indigenous Peoples and federal lands but overlooks the specific socio-economic and recreational identity of Melgund. The Dyment Recreation Hall is the community's social heart, and the surrounding crown lands are essential for hunting, fishing, and snowmobiling. Including these as VCs ensures that the Impact Statement must specifically evaluate how industrialization and transient worker influx will affect these local pillars. This provides an opportunity for the Proponent to develop targeted mitigation, such as a land access guarantee, which would preserve community support and improve the project's social integration."
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.