Deluge underlines importance of final hearing for nuclear waste dump

It’s long past time that the government dealt with this environmental catastrophe in the making, a serious problem that will worsen the longer it's ignored.

The Ottawa River flows past Gatineau, Que. The decision whether or not to license a near-surface disposal facility upstream of Ottawa-Gatineau is an major test of Canada’s commitment to the U.N. Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples, writes Lynn Jones.The Hill Times photograph by Andrew Meade

Opinion

August 21, 2023

OTTAWA—On Aug. 10, the Canadian Nuclear Safety Commission held a precedent-setting final licensing hearing for a giant above-ground radioactive waste dump beside the Ottawa River upstream of Ottawa-Gatineau and Montreal at Chalk River, Ont.

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