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It’s easy to make a donation to help the cause of opposing the burial and abandonment of all of Canada’s radioactive nuclear fuel waste in Northwestern Ontario. Our allied resistance continues. We will forge additional alliances, explore avenues of opposition (legal and regulatory), and continue to spread the truth about the dire environmental risks of the project. Donations are very helpful. Our organization is volunteer driven, so all funds donated go to education and outreach.

What we have accomplished with your help, year by year

2025… the resistance continues

In November 2024, the Nuclear Waste Management Organization decided to target northern Ontario for their deep geological repository (DGR) for all of the Canada’s nuclear fuel waste. However, the construction of this facility is still far from a sure thing. The planned commencement of construction is still 10 years in the future, with a long list of regulatory and licensing steps in between.

This year (2025), in addition to much public visibility, we have erected two highway billboards (one on Hwy 11/17 just west of the Nipigon bridge, and one on Hwy. 71 near Kenora), and purchased and distributed hundreds of lawn signs. For more on WTNFN’s activism, see our Media Releases webpage.

In late 2025, it was announced that public consultation as part of a federal Impact Assessment process will commence soon. We the Nuclear Free North is committed to keeping the public and organizations informed of formal engagement opportunities, and continuing to publicize truths about the dangers of the nuclear industry’s plans.

We the Nuclear Free North will continue to make alliances, conduct awareness activities, promote regional opposition, and participate actively in the regulatory and licensing steps, with your help.

2023 & 2024

In 2023 and 2024, we continued with canvasses, special events, letter campaigns, petitions, webinars, rallies, presentations to schools, clubs and municipalities, postcards, billboards, social media and other publicity tools. Your donations were vital in purchasing materials and supplies for these campaigns, which have substantially raised public awareness of the issue and the facts surrounding it.

2022

In 2022, with your support, we:

delivered 30,000 postcards to residents along the potential transportation routes, from Dinworic just west of the NWMO’s “candidate site”, along Highways 11 and 17, moving as far east as Wawa on the Highway 17 route and Temagami on Highway 11
developed and delivered a webinar on transportation risks
held multiple local events throughout the region during the summer and early fall, including in Ignace and area
supported awareness-raising walks from Ignace to Sioux Lookout and in Dryden and Thunder Bay
continued with our dynamic website with expanded information resources, an even stronger presence on Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, and Instagram, and a monthly electronic newsletter.

2021

In 2021 we distributed our first postcard to 30,000 homes, farms and businesses from just west of Thunder Bay to the Manitoba border, including all of Treaty 3 territory in Northwestern Ontario – and we began to build a Northern Ontario alliance. Local groups and working groups emerged throughout the Northwest as we established a strong communication system with a dynamic website, an active presence on Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, and Instagram, and a monthly electronic newsletter.

We invite you to support our work

We can do a lot with a little money because we are a group of dedicated volunteers, but we need your help to cover the material costs of our work, including:

material costs of $2,500 or more for highway billboards (sign printing and lumber) with donated design services and volunteers putting the sign in place
radio, print and social media advertisements
costs for yellow SAY NO! lawn signs – these are very effective!
costs of bringing speakers into our region who can clearly spell out the risks of transporting, transferring and burying nuclear waste; please help us continue this
costs of legal experts as we move into the regulatory and licensing phase before potential construction

Ways to donate

Canada Helps

If you require a charitable receipt, donations can be made through Canada Helps, and a charitable receipt is issued at the time of donation. Please visit the Canada Helps Link for our charitable partner The Demeter Project, and choose “We the Nuclear Free North” under “Fund”. We the Nuclear Free North will receive these funds for our nuclear waste awareness work.

Donate via Canada Helps (charitable receipt)

E-Transfer

You can also receive a charitable receipt if you use Interac eTransfer for a donation of $100 or above. Please send to nuclearfreenorth@gmail.com, and email or call us at 1-855-225-8055 (toll free) regarding the security question. Charitable receipts are available for donations over $100 on request; if you wish to receive a charitable receipt, please include your name and address in your message.

GoFundMe

You can use our GoFundMe page as an easy and secure way to donate. Our current GoFundMe page highlights billboards, but we fund many materials with these funds. Note that the GoFundMe page does not generate a charitable receipt.

Donate via GoFundMe (no charitable receipt)