Recommend the establishment of a transparent digital data portal that provides the Environment Working Group with access to raw, unsummarized baseline data for groundwater, air quality, and soil chemistry in the Melgund area.
Strategic Rationale
To validate the proponent's 'plain-language' environmental assessments, the community must have access to the underlying scientific data to ensure local environmental safety is not being generalized or overlooked.
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.