Challenge the Proponent to demonstrate 100% self-sufficiency in emergency response and fire suppression for industrial risks identified in the filing, specifically blasting and heavy mobile fleet operations.
Strategic Rationale
"The Initial Project Description explicitly lists blasting, land clearing, and the operation of mobile fleets as core activities. These industrial processes carry inherent risks of fire and accidents. Melgund Township is an unorganized territory with zero local fire, police, or ambulance services. The community has no local capacity to respond to industrial emergencies, and reliance on distant regional services in Ignace or Dryden creates an unacceptable risk due to response times. The Proponent must be held to a mandate of total self-sufficiency, providing 100% of the emergency capacity on-site. This ensures that project-related accidents do not overwhelm distant regional resources or leave Melgund residents unprotected during a crisis."
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.