Inquire about the provision of technical assistance grants or capacity funding to enable the Local Services Board to hire independent experts for the review of complex regulatory filings.
Strategic Rationale
Meaningful engagement requires more than 'plain-language' summaries; the community needs the technical capacity to verify safety claims and assess potential health and economic impacts independently.
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.