CEAA demands YET MORE additional information from OPG re: DGR!
As an official intervening party to the proceeding on Ontario Power Generation's (OPG) application to the Canadian Nuclear Safety Commission (CNSC) and Canadian Environmental Assessment Agency (CEAA), for a license to construct and operate a Deep Geologic Repository (DGR) for the burial and abandonment of all of Ontario's "low" and "intermediate" level radioactive wastes on the Lake Huron shoreline, Beyond Nuclear just received the transmission from CEAA, below. Why OPG is being given yet another bite at the apple, is not explained. CEAA, CNSC, and the Canadian federal Environment Minister, Catherine McKenna, should declare the DGR a failure, and cancel it for good! No more second (third, fourth, fifth, etc.) chances for such an insane, half-baked scheme that threatens the drinking water supply for 40 million people in eight states, two provinces, and a large number of Native American First Nations.
Deep Geologic Repository (DGR) Project for Low and Intermediate Level Radioactive Waste
Interested Parties
The Canadian Environmental Assessment Agency has requested additional information from Ontario Power Generation following its technical review of the Response to the request by the Minister of Environment and Climate Change. The technical review included a comment period to receive the views of the public, Indigenous groups, and expert federal departments and ran from January 18 to March 6, 2017.
The request is available on the Canadian Environmental Assessment Registry Internet Site (Registry) at the following location: http://www.ceaa-acee.gc.ca/050/document-eng.cfm?document=118537
For information on the DGR project, please visit the Canadian Environmental Assessment Registry (the Registry) website at canada.ca/ceaa, reference number 17520. Interested Parties are encouraged to check the Registry regularly to view documents related to the additional information. All records produced, collected or submitted in respect of the environmental assessment will be considered public and posted on the registry unless they are excluded for reason of privacy, confidentiality or security.
Sincerely,
Deep Geologic Repository Project
Canadian Environmental Assessment Agency
160 Elgin Street, 22nd Floor
Ottawa, ON K1A 0H3
April 6, 2017