Mark Lowey

Selecting Canada’s nuclear waste disposal site: world-class public engagement process or flawed and manipulative?

Mark Lowey
March 5, 2025

Did the process of choosing the site to permanently store Canada’s highly radioactive nuclear waste deep underground set a world standard for public engagement that led to two communities willing to host the site? Or was the industry-led process badly flawed and manipulative, leading to a site and an unproven technology that’s dangerous?

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Organizations: Agile Bear Consulting, Atomic Energy of Canada Limited, Canada Infrastructure Bank, Canada’s Nuclear Waste Management Organization, Canadian Nuclear Safety Commission, Eagle Lake First Nation, Grand Council Treaty #3, Hydro Quebec, New Brunswick Power, Ontario Power Generation, Protect Our Waterways – No Nuclear Waste, Queen's University, Torys LLP, Township of Ignace, Wabigoon Lake Ojibway First Nation, and We the Nuclear Free North
People: Bill Noll, Brennain Lloyd, Ehren Cory, Rumina Velshi, Suraj Persaud, Tracey Primeau, and Wendy O’Connor
Topics: Canada's nuclear industry, deep geological repository for nuclear waste, and permanently storing Canada's nuclear waste

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