Plan to import nuclear waste raises larger questions about plans to deal with domestic nuclear waste

If nuclear waste is such a problematic material as to ban its imports from other countries, isn’t it time to stop its production altogether?

The CBC's Enquete recently reported that former prime minister Jean Chrétien, picture here on March 3, 2020, in Ottawa, was part of a secretive project to set up a repository in Labrador to store radioactive nuclear waste. Since then, Newfoundland and Labrador Premier Andrew Furey and federal Natural Resources Minister Seamus O’Regan have declared that the proposal is dead.The Hill Times photograph by Andrew Meade

Opinion

BY KERRIE BLAISE AND M.V. RAMANA

May 6, 2021

Recently, the CBC revealed that former prime minister Jean Chrétien was part of a secretive project to set up a repository in Labrador to store radioactive nuclear waste. Since then, Newfoundland and Labr...

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