Challenge the adequacy of the Ambulance Services baseline (Section 15.3.1) which identifies only two ambulances in Ignace and four in Dryden, failing to analyze response times to unorganized territories.
Strategic Rationale
"Melgund Township is an unorganized territory with zero local emergency services; the community relies entirely on the distant hubs of Ignace and Dryden for pre-hospital care. The Proponent's submission highlights that these regional resources are already finite (only 6 units total between two major hubs). Any reliance by the DGR project on these municipal assets creates an unacceptable risk of delayed response for Melgund residents during a concurrent event. The Proponent must demonstrate 100% emergency self-sufficiency to ensure community safety coverage is not degraded."
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.