Establish comprehensive baseline monitoring for groundwater, surface water, and air quality that explicitly models the 'significant changes... associated with climate change' referenced in Objective 6.
Strategic Rationale
"Objective 6 highlights the need to protect groundwater and air quality while accounting for climate change. Since Melgund residents rely heavily on local groundwater wells, establishing a robust pre-project baseline is critical. This baseline must model how climate change might alter aquifer behavior independent of the project, ensuring that the Proponent's 'Environmental Integrity' objective can be accurately verified against future conditions. This protects the community's water security by distinguishing between climate impacts and project-related contamination."
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.