Request the Proponent expand the scope of transportation safety and emission assessments to include the Highway 17 corridor through Melgund, rather than only the access roads 'after turn off from Highway 17'.
Strategic Rationale
The Initial Project Description artificially limits the scope of transport impacts to the site access roads. For the residents of Dyment and Borups Corners, the primary safety and environmental concerns begin on Highway 17, where used nuclear fuel and construction materials will transit through the heart of the community. By excluding the Highway 17 segment from the local assessment, the Proponent is ignoring the baseline conditions and potential risks to local residents who share this corridor. Expanding this scope will provide a more transparent view of the project's impact on local transportation safety and air quality. This is an opportunity to improve the project's social license by acknowledging that the 'local' impact does not begin at the site gate, but at the community's doorstep.
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.