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RE: https://bclocal.news/@national/116806032939148778
Sorry, can someone explain that last one to me?
Zazzoo 🇨🇦@fname It checks off all lines on the Canadian environmental policy assessment sheet:
✅️ Far away from large urban centres where most energy is used and where most voters live - why should they have to deal with inconvenient consequences?
✅️ Only indigenous people would be affected if something went wrong
✅ North? That's, what, "outside the environment" isn't it? Next best thing to launching it into low earth orbit, really.
✅️ The nuclear lobby throws a really great annual golf tournament
✅️ The uranium mining lobby throws a really great annual golf tournament
✅️ Large-scale nuclear projects have more opportunities for cost overruns and other complications that result in more efficient transfer of public funds into private pockets than so-called 'sustainable energy' projects.
Dave Sanderson 🇨🇦🍁However, it’s being welcomed by the town and Indigenous where it’s being located:
“‘We are honoured, we are humbled, and we are so proud to be part of the the first
communities, alongside our First Nation partners – Wabigoon Lake Ojibway Nation- to
have been selected by the NWMO to host the DGR project in this area. The residents
of the Township of Ignace spoke loudly and clearly this year and strongly indicated our
overall support through a very strong mandate and an official resolution to the
NWMO. As such, we want to thank the Chief and Members of the Wabigoon Lake
Ojibway Nation, who also strongly supported this process and collectively today and
into the future, we stand side-by-side to hear this extremely positive news for both of
our communities and the entire region’, stated Mayor Kim Baigrie.”