‘Taxpayers are getting a bad deal,’ residents protest proposed nuclear waste disposal site north of Ottawa

The proposed ‘near surface disposal facility’ at Chalk River nuclear site sparks petition to Canada's federal Auditor General Michael Ferguson.
Auditor General Michael Ferguson.
Residents of a small community in Eastern Ontario and West Quebec are banding together to fight a plan to store nuclear waste along the banks of the Ottawa River over concerns lapse safety protections could spill highly radioactive deposits into the ecologically sensitive waterway. The Concerned Ci...

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