Webinar description: On March 18 the Township of Ignace signed a “hosting agreement” with the Nuclear Waste Management Organization (NWMO). The agreement will come into effect as a binding contract between the NWMO and the Township of Ignace if or when the Township delivers a statement to the NWMO that Ignace is a “Willing Host”.
Between April 26 and April 30, an online poll is open for Ignace residents to “vote” on whether they “want the Township (of Ignace) to continue participating in the (NWMO) process and to proceed as a potential host community”.
It’s a package deal. Voting “yes” means Ignace stays in the NWMO siting process and commits to supporting the NWMO’s nuclear waste burial project but it ALSO means agreeing to all the obligations and surrendering of rights set out in the “hosting agreement” which has already been signed by the Township of Ignace. The hosting agreement would become a permanent and binding contract if the NWMO selects the Revell site between Ignace and Dryden for the DGR.
This webinar will be an online discussion about the March 18 Ignace Hosting Agreement and the April 26-30 online poll for residents of Ignace. You can also ask questions about the NWMO project.
Questions will be from webinar participants. If you do not want to register for the webinar you can watch a livestream of the webinar via the We the Nuclear Free North facebook page at https://www.facebook.com/NuclearFreeNorth.
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Theresa McClenaghan, is Executive Director and Senior Counsel at the Canadian Environmental Law Association (CELA) in November 2007.Theresa holds an LL.B. (1984), a B.Sc. (Geol.) (2020) both from Western University and an LL.M. in constitutional law from Osgoode Law School at York (1999). Theresa also earned a diploma in Environmental Health Science from McMaster University (1999).
Pippa Feinstein is a lawyer, researcher, and mediator with the Nuclear Transparency Project. The Nuclear Transparency Project (NTP) is a non-profit organization dedicated to supporting and facilitating informed, holistic, and equitable public discussion about nuclear energy.
Dr. Warren Bernauer is a postdoctoral fellow at the Department of Environment & Geography and the Natural Resources Institute and the Department of Environment and Geography at the University of Manitoba.
Lise Morton is Vice President of Site Selection at Nuclear Waste Management Organization. Lise was previously the Director of Low and Intermediate Level Waste Operations and then Vice President of Nuclear Waste Management at Ontario Power Generation.
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