Request the specific 'Health and Safety' papers commissioned in Phase 1 to audit them for assumptions regarding local emergency response capacity.
Strategic Rationale
"The Proponent's submission notes that 'Health and Safety' papers were commissioned to build an information foundation. However, Melgund Township is an unorganized territory with zero local emergency services (no fire, no ambulance, no police). If these foundational papers assume the existence of standard municipal emergency infrastructure, the baseline safety case is fundamentally flawed. The Working Group must verify that the Proponent has not relied on 'generic' safety models that fail to account for the community's total reliance on distant hubs like Ignace or Dryden, which creates unacceptable risk profiles for local residents."
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.