Challenge the Proponent to demonstrate 100% self-sufficiency for emergency medical, fire, and security services for the Project and its associated workforce, specifically addressing the safety risks identified in the filing's reference to MMIWG Call for Justice 13.
Strategic Rationale
Melgund Township is an unorganized territory with zero local fire, police, or ambulance services. The Proponent's submission acknowledges the risks associated with extractive industries and transient workforces but fails to account for the total lack of local response capacity in the immediate vicinity of the Revell site. Relying on distant regional hubs in Ignace or Dryden for emergency response creates an unacceptable safety risk for both the workforce and the permanent residents of Dyment and Borups Corners. The Proponent must provide full, onsite emergency capacity to ensure the project does not overwhelm non-existent local resources and to mitigate the social safety risks identified in their own acknowledgment of the National Inquiry into Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls.
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.