By June, a special committee of the Township of Ignace’s local government will hear a consultant’s report about how much residents support, or do not support, the idea of becoming a host for a future Canadian nuclear-waste repository.
The Pembroke, Ontario-based consultant With Chela on April 30 finished four days of feedback gathering from Ignace residents, according to a township press release dated May 3.
The consultant will share the results of the study with Ignace’s Willingness Ad Hoc Committee, co-chaired by the township’s mayor Kim Baigrie and Roger Dufault, a local small business owner, “later this month or early next,” according to the township’s press release.
Ignace is one of two Ontario localities that could host the deep geologic repository for nuclear waste planned by Canada’s Nuclear Waste Management Organization. The other is the Municipality of South Bruce, which in April decided to let its citizens vote on whether to remain a potential host town.
Ignace is roughly 135 miles as the goose flies from the northwestern shore of Lake Superior. South Bruce, near the shores of Lake Huron, is about 110 miles by road from Toronto.
Meanwhile, Congress appeared close this week to passing a bill that would increase official U.S. scrutiny of any nuclear waste disposal in the Great Lakes region.
