Canada issues notice about nuclear waste repository as possible national interest project

Canada’s first deep geological repository (DGR) for nuclear waste may be designated as a project of national interest, meaning federal approvals for the $26-billion endeavour may be streamlined. The site, proposed near Ignace and Wabigoon Lake Ojibway Nation in northwestern Ontario, could see the country’s nuclear waste buried hundreds of metres underground. Notice of the possible designation was published in the federal government’s official newspaper, the Canada Gazette, on S