The filing highlights a significantly aging population in the study area (Ignace median age 53.6; LSB Wabigoon 49.2). Request a specific 'Vulnerable Population' impact assessment focusing on emergency evacuation times and access to chronic healthcare.
Strategic Rationale
"The demographic data indicates a population significantly older than the provincial average. Older residents are disproportionately vulnerable to project impacts such as road closures, dust, and noise. More critically, in an unorganized territory with no local medical support, an aging population is at higher risk if project-related traffic delays regional ambulance response times. The Proponent must account for this heightened vulnerability and ensure their activities do not impede the critical lifeline to regional hospitals."
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.