Feds push back decision on proposed nuclear-waste bunker near Lake Huron
TORONTO — The federal government has punted a decision on whether to allow a proposed underground storage bunker to house nuclear waste near Lake Huron well into next summer.
In a notice Monday, cabinet issued an order allowing another 243 days for the government to decide on the politically fraught project.
There have been several such extensions since a review panel in May last year gave its approval to the deep geologic repository, which has drawn vehement opposition from local groups as well as hundreds of Canadian and American communities around the Great Lakes.
Ontario Power Generation proposes to construct and operate the underground facility for the long-term management of radioactive waste at the Bruce nuclear site near Kincardine, Ont. The proposal calls for hundreds of thousands of cubic metres of so-called low- and intermediate-level nuclear waste to be buried 680 metres underground in the bedrock.