No DGR in Northwestern Ontario

I would like to start by saying that this impact assessment should not even be in the stage that it is at now.  NWMO thinks they are above the law and are trying to push the assessment as fast as possible with no regard to the damage they are creating in Northwestern Ontario and along the transportation route.  These are some of the key points. 1. This area has never had nuclear power in our area. 2. We have absolutely no trust with both levels of Government and here are two reasons why. 1. The leaking of nuclear waste from the Pinawa Lab which is going into the Winnipeg watershed has been leaking for over 50 years and the Treaty 3 people were told at the time of closure the site would be restored back to original specs.  When the Harper Government came on board they said the cost was too high and to cover it in cement.  To this day it is still leaking.  2. We have the Grassy Narrows problem of mercury poisoning on Treaty 3 land and when Western University did a study last spring they found mercury levels even higher and both levels of Government have done nothing to remedy the matter.  So, to summarize we do not want strike three in our area and become the Nuclear Toilet Bowl of Canada.

Let's look at NWMO and  where we are now.  1. Ignace put their hand up to host the DGR.  Nothing wrong with that but the DGR is two jurisdictions over and is in the Melgund, Dyment and Dinorwic area. When voting was conducted there were 1035 people that could vote. Many people did not vote as they did not trust the people in charge and turnout was low. There were 3 categories, one was a no vote, two was a yes vote and three was a neutral vote as undecided. As reported by some publications 16 and 17 year old’s where allowed to vote and the undecided votes were put in the yes vote. For in some peoples minds it was 77% yes vote.

When Wabigoon First Nation voted, publications also said 16 and 17 year old’s were allowed to vote and voting was for residents on reserve, off reserve out of Province and even out of the country and NWMO got their yes vote. This came at a whopping $145.000.00 to each member

if the yes vote was achieved. Here is where the problems starts  1- NWMO then picked the Revel Lake site with the backing of the Federal Government and Minister of Natural Resources Wilkinson teaming up with NWMO to pick the site. 2. Wabigoon First Nation said yes to the second stage but not yes as acceptance to the project. 3. Eagle Lake which is the same boundaries as Wabigoon said NO. 4. The three communities of Melgund, Dyment and Dinorwic asked if they could have a vote and NWMO said no. Some area residents asked for money from NWMO for legal council and where told no.  5. On March 19, 2024 without any discussions of its contents with the residents of Ignace a hosting agreement was signed by Mayor and Council with NWMO’s CEO and in the contract it states that the municipality must publicly support the Nuclear Industry’s project forever (including future Ignace Mayors and Councils) in other words, the Nuclear Industry bought a town and they can do whatever they want.

This is where things get really messy for NWMO. The Chiefs of Ontario and the Nan Chief and the Treaty 3 Chief along with a group of twelve-first nations and  Saugeen #258 and Eagle Lake First Nation all sent letters to NWMO saying NO.  Eagle Lake First Nation has taken it one step further and has brought a lawsuit against NWMO and the Federal Ministry of Natural Resources and the Attorney General. Resolutions from close to two dozen areas in and along the transportation route have also said no. The lawsuit is going into its 18 month and still no response. NWMO does not know what the word NO means and feel that they are above the law. With the Eagle Lake lawsuit and all the other letters this project should be stopped. Let's look at NWMO as a group. I was warned by the residents of South Bruce about NWMO and everything they said about them is true and beyond. 1. They will not respect Treaty people and anyone against them. 2. They will lie and will not answer questions and will not present material to people about the project in question. 3. They will split up communities and try to buy their way into areas. This part I find alarming as it is the tax payers money that they are using against us. 4. NWMO says they are a non-profit group and by law we should have access to their spending, but wait the Federal Government has exempt them from this and so we as tax payers do not know who and where the money is going to. When NWMO came on board in 2002 we where told that a group would have to be at arm’s length of the Nuclear Industry and this is not what is happening. They are here to find a site and they do not care about the people and the Environment. AECL said that no DGR in the future was to go into a seismic area and NWMO is also putting it at the headwaters of the Wabigoon and Turtle River watersheds. This means that when it leaks, and they said it will in the future the contamination is going to be off the charts. In the province of Ontario there are two large seismic areas- one is the bottom of James Bay and the other is at the Revel Lake site where the NWMO wants to put the DGR. We have Canadian Government maps showing the swarms at Revel Lake and on top of that we have Government maps showing all the faults that go all around the DGR site and some faults through where the six boreholes where drilled. NWMO does not show these maps and NWMO called them fraudulent maps and asked where we got them, and we showed the Canadian Government logo. One worry I have is in their literature about the above ground shallow nuclear waste storage at the DGR site. When I challenged the Vice-president of NWMO about this and wanted it taken out she said it was in there for historic purposes. The following day we spoke with legal council and was told if this was not removed that they could start transporting nuclear waste at any time to the DGR site.

Let’s talk about the DGR itself and what NWMO is not telling the people. Rock Solid #2 is written by DR. Helen Wallace for Green Peace in Switzerland and published in November 2025. NWMO has tried to debunk this, and it seems to not be working and here are some reasons why not. At the end of the Edition there is 49 pages of scientists and Universities from around the world and close to 500 experts saying why the DGR will fail. NWMO has done nothing, but computer analyzes as there is no working or running DGR in the world. Some key issues are seismic or earthquake zones that a DGR should never be put. 2. The heat that will be created is one of the biggest problems as the heat can expand the faults, creating quakes or sometimes they are called rock bursts and the hotter the temperature the more extreme the quake. I was told that the DGR will have no water movement at that level, yet they say when the tunnels are being drilled out and if they encounter water they will be sealed. So NWMO why are you talking on both sides of your face. 3. In their documents it states that as much as 80Kms of tunnels could be dug and remember NWMO did only 6 boreholes.  4. The thing that worries me more than anything is if the temperature exceeds 100 C and that is when water boils, where is this pressure going to go. 5. They never talk about the hot cells and contamination that is going to be released into the surrounding area. 6. This is one of the most important issues in that the canisters have never been tested anywhere in the world with high level nuclear waste in them and when I asked why the copper is only 3 mm they said because of the cost. NWMO says the containers with the high level nuclear waste that the trucks will carry have been tested for puncture, fire and drop tested. All lies and this is what we found out-when we contacted the Freedom of Information. This is what we were sent-the Used Fuel Transportation Package(UFTP) design is certified by the CNSC as a type B package. Demonstration of compliance with the regulatory requirements was provided through a combination of scale model tests and calculations. In addition to extensive computer analysis of the tests, 9m drop, puncture, and thermal test were carried out on a ½ scale model of the UFTP. The immersion tests were completed using computer analysis. NWMO wants us to believe that real world testing has been done on the transportation containers when it has been computer. The CNSC response confirmed that there has been no full-scale tests of USED Fuel Transportation Package UFTP and that the tests in the 1980’s were of 1/7 scale and half-scale containers. Another alarming part of this is the CNSC only provided 838 of the 3464 pages identified as being relevant to the request, while the remaining pages were held by OPG and the NWMO. This is only the tip of the Iceberg with NWMO and CNSC. We have 3 major problems 1. NWMO along with CNSC should be disbanded 2. The Nuclear Industry owns both levels of Government in Canada 3. We still have the good old boys club.  Remember all the people of Canada that this is Canada’s Plan.

May 10, 2026

I would like to start by saying that this impact assessment should not even be in the stage that it is at now.  NWMO thinks they are above the law and are trying to push the assessment as fast as possible with no regard to the damage they are creating in Northwestern Ontario and along the transportation route.  These are some of the key points. 1. This area has never had nuclear power in our area. 2. We have absolutely no trust with both levels of Government and here are two reasons why. 1. The leaking of nuclear waste from the Pinawa Lab which is going into the Winnipeg watershed has been leaking for over 50 years and the Treaty 3 people were told at the time of closure the site would be restored back to original specs.  When the Harper Government came on board they said the cost was too high and to cover it in cement.  To this day it is still leaking.  2. We have the Grassy Narrows problem of mercury poisoning on Treaty 3 land and when Western University did a study last spring they found mercury levels even higher and both levels of Government have done nothing to remedy the matter.  So, to summarize we do not want strike three in our area and become the Nuclear Toilet Bowl of Canada.

Let's look at NWMO and  where we are now.  1. Ignace put their hand up to host the DGR.  Nothing wrong with that but the DGR is two jurisdictions over and is in the Melgund, Dyment and Dinorwic area. When voting was conducted there were 1035 people that could vote. Many people did not vote as they did not trust the people in charge and turnout was low. There were 3 categories, one was a no vote, two was a yes vote and three was a neutral vote as undecided. As reported by some publications 16 and 17 year old’s where allowed to vote and the undecided votes were put in the yes vote. For in some peoples minds it was 77% yes vote.

When Wabigoon First Nation voted, publications also said 16 and 17 year old’s were allowed to vote and voting was for residents on reserve, off reserve out of Province and even out of the country and NWMO got their yes vote. This came at a whopping $145.000.00 to each member

if the yes vote was achieved. Here is where the problems starts  1- NWMO then picked the Revel Lake site with the backing of the Federal Government and Minister of Natural Resources Wilkinson teaming up with NWMO to pick the site. 2. Wabigoon First Nation said yes to the second stage but not yes as acceptance to the project. 3. Eagle Lake which is the same boundaries as Wabigoon said NO. 4. The three communities of Melgund, Dyment and Dinorwic asked if they could have a vote and NWMO said no. Some area residents asked for money from NWMO for legal council and where told no.  5. On March 19, 2024 without any discussions of its contents with the residents of Ignace a hosting agreement was signed by Mayor and Council with NWMO’s CEO and in the contract it states that the municipality must publicly support the Nuclear Industry’s project forever (including future Ignace Mayors and Councils) in other words, the Nuclear Industry bought a town and they can do whatever they want.

This is where things get really messy for NWMO. The Chiefs of Ontario and the Nan Chief and the Treaty 3 Chief along with a group of twelve-first nations and  Saugeen #258 and Eagle Lake First Nation all sent letters to NWMO saying NO.  Eagle Lake First Nation has taken it one step further and has brought a lawsuit against NWMO and the Federal Ministry of Natural Resources and the Attorney General. Resolutions from close to two dozen areas in and along the transportation route have also said no. The lawsuit is going into its 18 month and still no response. NWMO does not know what the word NO means and feel that they are above the law. With the Eagle Lake lawsuit and all the other letters this project should be stopped. Let's look at NWMO as a group. I was warned by the residents of South Bruce about NWMO and everything they said about them is true and beyond. 1. They will not respect Treaty people and anyone against them. 2. They will lie and will not answer questions and will not present material to people about the project in question. 3. They will split up communities and try to buy their way into areas. This part I find alarming as it is the tax payers money that they are using against us. 4. NWMO says they are a non-profit group and by law we should have access to their spending, but wait the Federal Government has exempt them from this and so we as tax payers do not know who and where the money is going to. When NWMO came on board in 2002 we where told that a group would have to be at arm’s length of the Nuclear Industry and this is not what is happening. They are here to find a site and they do not care about the people and the Environment. AECL said that no DGR in the future was to go into a seismic area and NWMO is also putting it at the headwaters of the Wabigoon and Turtle River watersheds. This means that when it leaks, and they said it will in the future the contamination is going to be off the charts. In the province of Ontario there are two large seismic areas- one is the bottom of James Bay and the other is at the Revel Lake site where the NWMO wants to put the DGR. We have Canadian Government maps showing the swarms at Revel Lake and on top of that we have Government maps showing all the faults that go all around the DGR site and some faults through where the six boreholes where drilled. NWMO does not show these maps and NWMO called them fraudulent maps and asked where we got them, and we showed the Canadian Government logo. One worry I have is in their literature about the above ground shallow nuclear waste storage at the DGR site. When I challenged the Vice-president of NWMO about this and wanted it taken out she said it was in there for historic purposes. The following day we spoke with legal council and was told if this was not removed that they could start transporting nuclear waste at any time to the DGR site.

Let’s talk about the DGR itself and what NWMO is not telling the people. Rock Solid #2 is written by DR. Helen Wallace for Green Peace in Switzerland and published in November 2025. NWMO has tried to debunk this, and it seems to not be working and here are some reasons why not. At the end of the Edition there is 49 pages of scientists and Universities from around the world and close to 500 experts saying why the DGR will fail. NWMO has done nothing, but computer analyzes as there is no working or running DGR in the world. Some key issues are seismic or earthquake zones that a DGR should never be put. 2. The heat that will be created is one of the biggest problems as the heat can expand the faults, creating quakes or sometimes they are called rock bursts and the hotter the temperature the more extreme the quake. I was told that the DGR will have no water movement at that level, yet they say when the tunnels are being drilled out and if they encounter water they will be sealed. So NWMO why are you talking on both sides of your face. 3. In their documents it states that as much as 80Kms of tunnels could be dug and remember NWMO did only 6 boreholes.  4. The thing that worries me more than anything is if the temperature exceeds 100 C and that is when water boils, where is this pressure going to go. 5. They never talk about the hot cells and contamination that is going to be released into the surrounding area. 6. This is one of the most important issues in that the canisters have never been tested anywhere in the world with high level nuclear waste in them and when I asked why the copper is only 3 mm they said because of the cost. NWMO says the containers with the high level nuclear waste that the trucks will carry have been tested for puncture, fire and drop tested. All lies and this is what we found out-when we contacted the Freedom of Information. This is what we were sent-the Used Fuel Transportation Package(UFTP) design is certified by the CNSC as a type B package. Demonstration of compliance with the regulatory requirements was provided through a combination of scale model tests and calculations. In addition to extensive computer analysis of the tests, 9m drop, puncture, and thermal test were carried out on a ½ scale model of the UFTP. The immersion tests were completed using computer analysis. NWMO wants us to believe that real world testing has been done on the transportation containers when it has been computer. The CNSC response confirmed that there has been no full-scale tests of USED Fuel Transportation Package UFTP and that the tests in the 1980’s were of 1/7 scale and half-scale containers. Another alarming part of this is the CNSC only provided 838 of the 3464 pages identified as being relevant to the request, while the remaining pages were held by OPG and the NWMO. This is only the tip of the Iceberg with NWMO and CNSC. We have 3 major problems 1. NWMO along with CNSC should be disbanded 2. The Nuclear Industry owns both levels of Government in Canada 3. We still have the good old boys club.  Remember all the people of Canada that this is Canada’s Plan.

I would like to start by saying that this impact assessment should not even be in the stage that it is at now.  NWMO thinks they are above the law and are trying to push the assessment as fast as possible with no regard to the damage they are creating in Northwestern Ontario and along the transportation route.  These are some of the key points. 1. This area has never had nuclear power in our area. 2. We have absolutely no trust with both levels of Government and here are two reasons why. 1. The leaking of nuclear waste from the Pinawa Lab which is going into the Winnipeg watershed has been leaking for over 50 years and the Treaty 3 people were told at the time of closure the site would be restored back to original specs.  When the Harper Government came on board they said the cost was too high and to cover it in cement.  To this day it is still leaking.  2. We have the Grassy Narrows problem of mercury poisoning on Treaty 3 land and when Western University did a study last spring they found mercury levels even higher and both levels of Government have done nothing to remedy the matter.  So, to summarize we do not want strike three in our area and become the Nuclear Toilet Bowl of Canada.

Let's look at NWMO and  where we are now.  1. Ignace put their hand up to host the DGR.  Nothing wrong with that but the DGR is two jurisdictions over and is in the Melgund, Dyment and Dinorwic area. When voting was conducted there were 1035 people that could vote. Many people did not vote as they did not trust the people in charge and turnout was low. There were 3 categories, one was a no vote, two was a yes vote and three was a neutral vote as undecided. As reported by some publications 16 and 17 year old’s where allowed to vote and the undecided votes were put in the yes vote. For in some peoples minds it was 77% yes vote.

When Wabigoon First Nation voted, publications also said 16 and 17 year old’s were allowed to vote and voting was for residents on reserve, off reserve out of Province and even out of the country and NWMO got their yes vote. This came at a whopping $145.000.00 to each member

if the yes vote was achieved. Here is where the problems starts  1- NWMO then picked the Revel Lake site with the backing of the Federal Government and Minister of Natural Resources Wilkinson teaming up with NWMO to pick the site. 2. Wabigoon First Nation said yes to the second stage but not yes as acceptance to the project. 3. Eagle Lake which is the same boundaries as Wabigoon said NO. 4. The three communities of Melgund, Dyment and Dinorwic asked if they could have a vote and NWMO said no. Some area residents asked for money from NWMO for legal council and where told no.  5. On March 19, 2024 without any discussions of its contents with the residents of Ignace a hosting agreement was signed by Mayor and Council with NWMO’s CEO and in the contract it states that the municipality must publicly support the Nuclear Industry’s project forever (including future Ignace Mayors and Councils) in other words, the Nuclear Industry bought a town and they can do whatever they want.

This is where things get really messy for NWMO. The Chiefs of Ontario and the Nan Chief and the Treaty 3 Chief along with a group of twelve-first nations and  Saugeen #258 and Eagle Lake First Nation all sent letters to NWMO saying NO.  Eagle Lake First Nation has taken it one step further and has brought a lawsuit against NWMO and the Federal Ministry of Natural Resources and the Attorney General. Resolutions from close to two dozen areas in and along the transportation route have also said no. The lawsuit is going into its 18 month and still no response. NWMO does not know what the word NO means and feel that they are above the law. With the Eagle Lake lawsuit and all the other letters this project should be stopped. Let's look at NWMO as a group. I was warned by the residents of South Bruce about NWMO and everything they said about them is true and beyond. 1. They will not respect Treaty people and anyone against them. 2. They will lie and will not answer questions and will not present material to people about the project in question. 3. They will split up communities and try to buy their way into areas. This part I find alarming as it is the tax payers money that they are using against us. 4. NWMO says they are a non-profit group and by law we should have access to their spending, but wait the Federal Government has exempt them from this and so we as tax payers do not know who and where the money is going to. When NWMO came on board in 2002 we where told that a group would have to be at arm’s length of the Nuclear Industry and this is not what is happening. They are here to find a site and they do not care about the people and the Environment. AECL said that no DGR in the future was to go into a seismic area and NWMO is also putting it at the headwaters of the Wabigoon and Turtle River watersheds. This means that when it leaks, and they said it will in the future the contamination is going to be off the charts. In the province of Ontario there are two large seismic areas- one is the bottom of James Bay and the other is at the Revel Lake site where the NWMO wants to put the DGR. We have Canadian Government maps showing the swarms at Revel Lake and on top of that we have Government maps showing all the faults that go all around the DGR site and some faults through where the six boreholes where drilled. NWMO does not show these maps and NWMO called them fraudulent maps and asked where we got them, and we showed the Canadian Government logo. One worry I have is in their literature about the above ground shallow nuclear waste storage at the DGR site. When I challenged the Vice-president of NWMO about this and wanted it taken out she said it was in there for historic purposes. The following day we spoke with legal council and was told if this was not removed that they could start transporting nuclear waste at any time to the DGR site.

Let’s talk about the DGR itself and what NWMO is not telling the people. Rock Solid #2 is written by DR. Helen Wallace for Green Peace in Switzerland and published in November 2025. NWMO has tried to debunk this, and it seems to not be working and here are some reasons why not. At the end of the Edition there is 49 pages of scientists and Universities from around the world and close to 500 experts saying why the DGR will fail. NWMO has done nothing, but computer analyzes as there is no working or running DGR in the world. Some key issues are seismic or earthquake zones that a DGR should never be put. 2. The heat that will be created is one of the biggest problems as the heat can expand the faults, creating quakes or sometimes they are called rock bursts and the hotter the temperature the more extreme the quake. I was told that the DGR will have no water movement at that level, yet they say when the tunnels are being drilled out and if they encounter water they will be sealed. So NWMO why are you talking on both sides of your face. 3. In their documents it states that as much as 80Kms of tunnels could be dug and remember NWMO did only 6 boreholes.  4. The thing that worries me more than anything is if the temperature exceeds 100 C and that is when water boils, where is this pressure going to go. 5. They never talk about the hot cells and contamination that is going to be released into the surrounding area. 6. This is one of the most important issues in that the canisters have never been tested anywhere in the world with high level nuclear waste in them and when I asked why the copper is only 3 mm they said because of the cost. NWMO says the containers with the high level nuclear waste that the trucks will carry have been tested for puncture, fire and drop tested. All lies and this is what we found out-when we contacted the Freedom of Information. This is what we were sent-the Used Fuel Transportation Package(UFTP) design is certified by the CNSC as a type B package. Demonstration of compliance with the regulatory requirements was provided through a combination of scale model tests and calculations. In addition to extensive computer analysis of the tests, 9m drop, puncture, and thermal test were carried out on a ½ scale model of the UFTP. The immersion tests were completed using computer analysis. NWMO wants us to believe that real world testing has been done on the transportation containers when it has been computer. The CNSC response confirmed that there has been no full-scale tests of USED Fuel Transportation Package UFTP and that the tests in the 1980’s were of 1/7 scale and half-scale containers. Another alarming part of this is the CNSC only provided 838 of the 3464 pages identified as being relevant to the request, while the remaining pages were held by OPG and the NWMO. This is only the tip of the Iceberg with NWMO and CNSC. We have 3 major problems 1. NWMO along with CNSC should be disbanded 2. The Nuclear Industry owns both levels of Government in Canada 3. We still have the good old boys club.  Remember all the people of Canada that this is Canada’s Plan.

May 10, 2026

I would like to start by saying that this impact assessment should not even be in the stage that it is at now.  NWMO thinks they are above the law and are trying to push the assessment as fast as possible with no regard to the damage they are creating in Northwestern Ontario and along the transportation route.  These are some of the key points. 1. This area has never had nuclear power in our area. 2. We have absolutely no trust with both levels of Government and here are two reasons why. 1. The leaking of nuclear waste from the Pinawa Lab which is going into the Winnipeg watershed has been leaking for over 50 years and the Treaty 3 people were told at the time of closure the site would be restored back to original specs.  When the Harper Government came on board they said the cost was too high and to cover it in cement.  To this day it is still leaking.  2. We have the Grassy Narrows problem of mercury poisoning on Treaty 3 land and when Western University did a study last spring they found mercury levels even higher and both levels of Government have done nothing to remedy the matter.  So, to summarize we do not want strike three in our area and become the Nuclear Toilet Bowl of Canada.

Let's look at NWMO and  where we are now.  1. Ignace put their hand up to host the DGR.  Nothing wrong with that but the DGR is two jurisdictions over and is in the Melgund, Dyment and Dinorwic area. When voting was conducted there were 1035 people that could vote. Many people did not vote as they did not trust the people in charge and turnout was low. There were 3 categories, one was a no vote, two was a yes vote and three was a neutral vote as undecided. As reported by some publications 16 and 17 year old’s where allowed to vote and the undecided votes were put in the yes vote. For in some peoples minds it was 77% yes vote.

When Wabigoon First Nation voted, publications also said 16 and 17 year old’s were allowed to vote and voting was for residents on reserve, off reserve out of Province and even out of the country and NWMO got their yes vote. This came at a whopping $145.000.00 to each member

if the yes vote was achieved. Here is where the problems starts  1- NWMO then picked the Revel Lake site with the backing of the Federal Government and Minister of Natural Resources Wilkinson teaming up with NWMO to pick the site. 2. Wabigoon First Nation said yes to the second stage but not yes as acceptance to the project. 3. Eagle Lake which is the same boundaries as Wabigoon said NO. 4. The three communities of Melgund, Dyment and Dinorwic asked if they could have a vote and NWMO said no. Some area residents asked for money from NWMO for legal council and where told no.  5. On March 19, 2024 without any discussions of its contents with the residents of Ignace a hosting agreement was signed by Mayor and Council with NWMO’s CEO and in the contract it states that the municipality must publicly support the Nuclear Industry’s project forever (including future Ignace Mayors and Councils) in other words, the Nuclear Industry bought a town and they can do whatever they want.

This is where things get really messy for NWMO. The Chiefs of Ontario and the Nan Chief and the Treaty 3 Chief along with a group of twelve-first nations and  Saugeen #258 and Eagle Lake First Nation all sent letters to NWMO saying NO.  Eagle Lake First Nation has taken it one step further and has brought a lawsuit against NWMO and the Federal Ministry of Natural Resources and the Attorney General. Resolutions from close to two dozen areas in and along the transportation route have also said no. The lawsuit is going into its 18 month and still no response. NWMO does not know what the word NO means and feel that they are above the law. With the Eagle Lake lawsuit and all the other letters this project should be stopped. Let's look at NWMO as a group. I was warned by the residents of South Bruce about NWMO and everything they said about them is true and beyond. 1. They will not respect Treaty people and anyone against them. 2. They will lie and will not answer questions and will not present material to people about the project in question. 3. They will split up communities and try to buy their way into areas. This part I find alarming as it is the tax payers money that they are using against us. 4. NWMO says they are a non-profit group and by law we should have access to their spending, but wait the Federal Government has exempt them from this and so we as tax payers do not know who and where the money is going to. When NWMO came on board in 2002 we where told that a group would have to be at arm’s length of the Nuclear Industry and this is not what is happening. They are here to find a site and they do not care about the people and the Environment. AECL said that no DGR in the future was to go into a seismic area and NWMO is also putting it at the headwaters of the Wabigoon and Turtle River watersheds. This means that when it leaks, and they said it will in the future the contamination is going to be off the charts. In the province of Ontario there are two large seismic areas- one is the bottom of James Bay and the other is at the Revel Lake site where the NWMO wants to put the DGR. We have Canadian Government maps showing the swarms at Revel Lake and on top of that we have Government maps showing all the faults that go all around the DGR site and some faults through where the six boreholes where drilled. NWMO does not show these maps and NWMO called them fraudulent maps and asked where we got them, and we showed the Canadian Government logo. One worry I have is in their literature about the above ground shallow nuclear waste storage at the DGR site. When I challenged the Vice-president of NWMO about this and wanted it taken out she said it was in there for historic purposes. The following day we spoke with legal council and was told if this was not removed that they could start transporting nuclear waste at any time to the DGR site.

Let’s talk about the DGR itself and what NWMO is not telling the people. Rock Solid #2 is written by DR. Helen Wallace for Green Peace in Switzerland and published in November 2025. NWMO has tried to debunk this, and it seems to not be working and here are some reasons why not. At the end of the Edition there is 49 pages of scientists and Universities from around the world and close to 500 experts saying why the DGR will fail. NWMO has done nothing, but computer analyzes as there is no working or running DGR in the world. Some key issues are seismic or earthquake zones that a DGR should never be put. 2. The heat that will be created is one of the biggest problems as the heat can expand the faults, creating quakes or sometimes they are called rock bursts and the hotter the temperature the more extreme the quake. I was told that the DGR will have no water movement at that level, yet they say when the tunnels are being drilled out and if they encounter water they will be sealed. So NWMO why are you talking on both sides of your face. 3. In their documents it states that as much as 80Kms of tunnels could be dug and remember NWMO did only 6 boreholes.  4. The thing that worries me more than anything is if the temperature exceeds 100 C and that is when water boils, where is this pressure going to go. 5. They never talk about the hot cells and contamination that is going to be released into the surrounding area. 6. This is one of the most important issues in that the canisters have never been tested anywhere in the world with high level nuclear waste in them and when I asked why the copper is only 3 mm they said because of the cost. NWMO says the containers with the high level nuclear waste that the trucks will carry have been tested for puncture, fire and drop tested. All lies and this is what we found out-when we contacted the Freedom of Information. This is what we were sent-the Used Fuel Transportation Package(UFTP) design is certified by the CNSC as a type B package. Demonstration of compliance with the regulatory requirements was provided through a combination of scale model tests and calculations. In addition to extensive computer analysis of the tests, 9m drop, puncture, and thermal test were carried out on a ½ scale model of the UFTP. The immersion tests were completed using computer analysis. NWMO wants us to believe that real world testing has been done on the transportation containers when it has been computer. The CNSC response confirmed that there has been no full-scale tests of USED Fuel Transportation Package UFTP and that the tests in the 1980’s were of 1/7 scale and half-scale containers. Another alarming part of this is the CNSC only provided 838 of the 3464 pages identified as being relevant to the request, while the remaining pages were held by OPG and the NWMO. This is only the tip of the Iceberg with NWMO and CNSC. We have 3 major problems 1. NWMO along with CNSC should be disbanded 2. The Nuclear Industry owns both levels of Government in Canada 3. We still have the good old boys club.  Remember all the people of Canada that this is Canada’s Plan.

May 10, 2026

I would like to start by saying that this impact assessment should not even be in the stage that it is at now.  NWMO thinks they are above the law and are trying to push the assessment as fast as possible with no regard to the damage they are creating in Northwestern Ontario and along the transportation route.  These are some of the key points. 1. This area has never had nuclear power in our area. 2. We have absolutely no trust with both levels of Government and here are two reasons why. 1. The leaking of nuclear waste from the Pinawa Lab which is going into the Winnipeg watershed has been leaking for over 50 years and the Treaty 3 people were told at the time of closure the site would be restored back to original specs.  When the Harper Government came on board they said the cost was too high and to cover it in cement.  To this day it is still leaking.  2. We have the Grassy Narrows problem of mercury poisoning on Treaty 3 land and when Western University did a study last spring they found mercury levels even higher and both levels of Government have done nothing to remedy the matter.  So, to summarize we do not want strike three in our area and become the Nuclear Toilet Bowl of Canada.

Let's look at NWMO and  where we are now.  1. Ignace put their hand up to host the DGR.  Nothing wrong with that but the DGR is two jurisdictions over and is in the Melgund, Dyment and Dinorwic area. When voting was conducted there were 1035 people that could vote. Many people did not vote as they did not trust the people in charge and turnout was low. There were 3 categories, one was a no vote, two was a yes vote and three was a neutral vote as undecided. As reported by some publications 16 and 17 year old’s where allowed to vote and the undecided votes were put in the yes vote. For in some peoples minds it was 77% yes vote.

When Wabigoon First Nation voted, publications also said 16 and 17 year old’s were allowed to vote and voting was for residents on reserve, off reserve out of Province and even out of the country and NWMO got their yes vote. This came at a whopping $145.000.00 to each member

if the yes vote was achieved. Here is where the problems starts  1- NWMO then picked the Revel Lake site with the backing of the Federal Government and Minister of Natural Resources Wilkinson teaming up with NWMO to pick the site. 2. Wabigoon First Nation said yes to the second stage but not yes as acceptance to the project. 3. Eagle Lake which is the same boundaries as Wabigoon said NO. 4. The three communities of Melgund, Dyment and Dinorwic asked if they could have a vote and NWMO said no. Some area residents asked for money from NWMO for legal council and where told no.  5. On March 19, 2024 without any discussions of its contents with the residents of Ignace a hosting agreement was signed by Mayor and Council with NWMO’s CEO and in the contract it states that the municipality must publicly support the Nuclear Industry’s project forever (including future Ignace Mayors and Councils) in other words, the Nuclear Industry bought a town and they can do whatever they want.

This is where things get really messy for NWMO. The Chiefs of Ontario and the Nan Chief and the Treaty 3 Chief along with a group of twelve-first nations and  Saugeen #258 and Eagle Lake First Nation all sent letters to NWMO saying NO.  Eagle Lake First Nation has taken it one step further and has brought a lawsuit against NWMO and the Federal Ministry of Natural Resources and the Attorney General. Resolutions from close to two dozen areas in and along the transportation route have also said no. The lawsuit is going into its 18 month and still no response. NWMO does not know what the word NO means and feel that they are above the law. With the Eagle Lake lawsuit and all the other letters this project should be stopped. Let's look at NWMO as a group. I was warned by the residents of South Bruce about NWMO and everything they said about them is true and beyond. 1. They will not respect Treaty people and anyone against them. 2. They will lie and will not answer questions and will not present material to people about the project in question. 3. They will split up communities and try to buy their way into areas. This part I find alarming as it is the tax payers money that they are using against us. 4. NWMO says they are a non-profit group and by law we should have access to their spending, but wait the Federal Government has exempt them from this and so we as tax payers do not know who and where the money is going to. When NWMO came on board in 2002 we where told that a group would have to be at arm’s length of the Nuclear Industry and this is not what is happening. They are here to find a site and they do not care about the people and the Environment. AECL said that no DGR in the future was to go into a seismic area and NWMO is also putting it at the headwaters of the Wabigoon and Turtle River watersheds. This means that when it leaks, and they said it will in the future the contamination is going to be off the charts. In the province of Ontario there are two large seismic areas- one is the bottom of James Bay and the other is at the Revel Lake site where the NWMO wants to put the DGR. We have Canadian Government maps showing the swarms at Revel Lake and on top of that we have Government maps showing all the faults that go all around the DGR site and some faults through where the six boreholes where drilled. NWMO does not show these maps and NWMO called them fraudulent maps and asked where we got them, and we showed the Canadian Government logo. One worry I have is in their literature about the above ground shallow nuclear waste storage at the DGR site. When I challenged the Vice-president of NWMO about this and wanted it taken out she said it was in there for historic purposes. The following day we spoke with legal council and was told if this was not removed that they could start transporting nuclear waste at any time to the DGR site.

Let’s talk about the DGR itself and what NWMO is not telling the people. Rock Solid #2 is written by DR. Helen Wallace for Green Peace in Switzerland and published in November 2025. NWMO has tried to debunk this, and it seems to not be working and here are some reasons why not. At the end of the Edition there is 49 pages of scientists and Universities from around the world and close to 500 experts saying why the DGR will fail. NWMO has done nothing, but computer analyzes as there is no working or running DGR in the world. Some key issues are seismic or earthquake zones that a DGR should never be put. 2. The heat that will be created is one of the biggest problems as the heat can expand the faults, creating quakes or sometimes they are called rock bursts and the hotter the temperature the more extreme the quake. I was told that the DGR will have no water movement at that level, yet they say when the tunnels are being drilled out and if they encounter water they will be sealed. So NWMO why are you talking on both sides of your face. 3. In their documents it states that as much as 80Kms of tunnels could be dug and remember NWMO did only 6 boreholes.  4. The thing that worries me more than anything is if the temperature exceeds 100 C and that is when water boils, where is this pressure going to go. 5. They never talk about the hot cells and contamination that is going to be released into the surrounding area. 6. This is one of the most important issues in that the canisters have never been tested anywhere in the world with high level nuclear waste in them and when I asked why the copper is only 3 mm they said because of the cost. NWMO says the containers with the high level nuclear waste that the trucks will carry have been tested for puncture, fire and drop tested. All lies and this is what we found out-when we contacted the Freedom of Information. This is what we were sent-the Used Fuel Transportation Package(UFTP) design is certified by the CNSC as a type B package. Demonstration of compliance with the regulatory requirements was provided through a combination of scale model tests and calculations. In addition to extensive computer analysis of the tests, 9m drop, puncture, and thermal test were carried out on a ½ scale model of the UFTP. The immersion tests were completed using computer analysis. NWMO wants us to believe that real world testing has been done on the transportation containers when it has been computer. The CNSC response confirmed that there has been no full-scale tests of USED Fuel Transportation Package UFTP and that the tests in the 1980’s were of 1/7 scale and half-scale containers. Another alarming part of this is the CNSC only provided 838 of the 3464 pages identified as being relevant to the request, while the remaining pages were held by OPG and the NWMO. This is only the tip of the Iceberg with NWMO and CNSC. We have 3 major problems 1. NWMO along with CNSC should be disbanded 2. The Nuclear Industry owns both levels of Government in Canada 3. We still have the good old boys club.  Remember all the people of Canada that this is Canada’s Plan.