Challenge the Proponent to demonstrate 100% emergency response self-sufficiency, noting that the filing identifies only 'volunteer fire departments' in neighboring Oxdrift and Wabigoon, confirming a lack of professional capacity in Melgund.
Strategic Rationale
"Melgund Township is an unorganized territory with no local emergency services. The Proponent's reliance on distant, volunteer-run departments in Wabigoon or Oxdrift creates an unacceptable safety risk for a major industrial project. Community has no local capacity; reliance on distant regional services creates unacceptable risk. The Proponent must provide 100% of its own emergency capacity to ensure response times are adequate and to prevent the collapse of the region's fragile volunteer network."
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.