Demand a detailed definition of 'adaptive management' that includes specific, pre-defined 'stop-work' triggers for groundwater protection.
Strategic Rationale
"The Proponent's submission uses 'adaptive management' as a framework for addressing unforeseen effects, which can be interpreted as a trial-and-error approach. For the residents of Borups Corners who depend on groundwater, waiting for an effect to be 'monitored' before 'correcting' it is an unacceptable risk. The Proponent should improve the project by establishing 'hard' environmental triggers where operations are paused if baseline deviations are detected. This provides a safety net that goes beyond 'minimizing' impacts to actively preventing them. The adoption of this recommendation would provide the community with a 'Community Protection Guarantee' that is currently missing from the high-level EMS description."
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.