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Not in our backyard: Securing a referendum over Canada’s plan for a nuclear waste dump.

In the UK, Nuclear Waste Services continues to investigate the
suitability of locating a Geological Disposal Facility (GDF) at one (or
perhaps two) of four sites in West Cumbria and East Lincolnshire.

In Canada, the Nuclear Waste Management Organisation is also looking for a
site for a Deep Geological Repository (DGR), focusing upon Ignace and South
Bruce, both in Ontario. The names may be different, but the intention and
impact will be the same for the sites selected will receive their
respective nation’s high-level radioactive waste which will be disposed of
beneath the sea or below ground.

In the UK and in Canada, local people have
mobilised in opposition to the plans. Aware that British and Canadian
nuclear agencies, and supportive politicians, are in contact to exchange
knowledge and experience, the UK/Ireland NFLAs, working in partnership with
Northwatch in Canada, arranged an online meeting between campaigners in our
two nations. We intend this to be an ongoing dialogue.

NFLA 25th July 2023

July 27, 2023 - Posted by Christina Macpherson | politics international, wastes