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OPG Backgrounders  

Environmental Impact Statement ( EIS)   - These are large files and may take time to load. 

• EIS Summary

• EIS Volume 1

• EIS Volume 2-1

• EIS Volume 2-2

Technical Backgrounder Reports

• Kincardine Hosting Agreement

• CEAA 2012

• Ivey Report

• Michigan Low-Level Radioactive Waste Authority Act

• Great Lakes Water Quality Agreement

• Boundary Waters Treaty of 1909

• Amendment to the Agreement to Establish a Joint Review Panel for the Deep Geologic Repository Project by Ontario Power Generation Inc. Within the Municipality of Kincardine, Ontario Between The Minister of the Environment and The Canadian Nuclear Safety Commission

Letters & Requests

• Message from the Deep Geological Repository Project published on August 21st 2017 regarding Catherine McKenna and the Saugeen Ojibway Nation's letters.

• Letter to Ms. Lisa Morton of OPG from Catherine McKenna on August 21st 2017 regarding the Saugeen Ojibway Nation's letter and a request for more information.

• Letter from Catherine McKenna to the Saugeen Ojibway Nation on August 21st 2017 regarding the proposed DGR.

• Open Letter To The Honourable Catherine McKenna - Regarding the OPG December 2016 Response on The DGR1, Kincardine, Ontario January 9, 2017

• Open Letter to the Minister of Environment and Climate Change from SOS Great Lakes, July 15, 2016

• February 18, 2016 Letter to Laurie Swami (VP Nuclear Services) from the Minister of Environment and Climate Change, Catherine McKenna re: additional information

• From the Minister of Environment and Climate Change to Ontario Power Generation re: Request to provide additional information

• Letter from CEAA to Ms. Laurie Swami re: Request from the Minister of Environment and Climate Change to OPG to Provide Further Information with Respect to DGR.

• OPG's Fall 2016 Update – Western Waste Management Facility – Deep Geologic Repository Project

• From the Minister of Environment and Climate Change Canada to Joint Review Panel regarding process to review the Additional Information

• September 14 2017 Letter to The Honourable Catherine McKenna - Response to Environmental and Regulatory Reviews: Discussion Paper (June 2017)

• September 14 2017 Letter to The Honourable Catherine McKenna - Comments on CEAA's response to the Expert Panel

Deputations from Members of SOSGL to the Joint Review Panel Hearings, 2013

• 2013 Oral Statement by Charles Rhodes, Xylene Power Limited

• 2013, May Letter to JRP from Charles Rhodes re: APM

• 2013 May, Submission to JRP from Charles Rhodes re: Plan for long term storage of spent CANDU Fuel Bundles and Nuclear Waste

• Eugene Bourgeois - DGR Hearing Submission regarding comments on Draft Guidelines for Preparation of Environmental Statement

• Eugene Bourgeois - DGR Hearing Submission regarding Phase 1 Regional Geomechanics

• Eugene Bourgeois - DGR Hearing Submission Community Concerns submission

• Eugene Bourgeois - DGR Hearing Submission request for Gartner Lee TSD

• Eugene Bourgeois - SISKINDS, the Law Firm, representing both IDRA and the Bourgeois

• Eugene Bourgeois - CEAR 572 concern about technical sessions held where stakeholders are not likely to be able to attend

• Eugene Bourgeois - CEAR 685 problem accessing earlier webcast and seeking funds to attend the modelling session

• Eugene Bourgeois - CEAR 709 Information Request concerning VECs used and sampling programmes developed for the DGR

• Eugene Bourgeois - CEAR 762 CNSC response to Information Request from Bourgeois and Metis

• Eugene Bourgeois - CEAR 825: submission concerning noise

• Eugene Bourgeois - CEAR 839: submission concerning dust

• Eugene Bourgeois - CEAR 851 concerning groundwater monitoring deficiencies submitted by SISKINDS, the law firm

• Eugene Bourgeois - CEAR 853 concerning radioactivity in groundwater from radioactive waste management at the site

• Eugene Bourgeois - CEAR 870 Information Request with respect to socio-economic issues submitted by SISKINDS, the law firm

• Eugene Bourgeois - CEAR 896 response by CNSC to Information Request dismissing concerns

• Eugene Bourgeois - CEAR 944 submission concerning stigma relating to socio-economic details presented by the OPG at special session

• Eugene Bourgeois - CEAR 1037 submission demonstrating that this is a high level waste site with high level wastes being relabelled as intermediate level wastes

• Eugene Bourgeois - CEAR 1060 requests information on when definitions for HLW were changed and how these were communicated to the municipality and public

• Eugene Bourgeois - CEAR 1085 concern about how OPG intends to meet the municipality's noise by-law and still operate at nighttime during construction

• Eugene Bourgeois - CEAR 1123 submission from Siskinds the Law Firm with respect to inadequacy of socio-economic analysis, cumulative effects analysis and lack of disclosure about transportation issues concerning this

• Eugene Bourgeois - CEAR 1133 submission showing aversion to scientific analysis in the EIS and its follow-up

• Eugene Bourgeois - CEAR 1172 inadequacy of OPG's responses concerning scientific investigations and standards used

• Eugene Bourgeois - Written Submission for Hearing requesting to deny application that OPG submitted

• Glenn Sutton Written Submission in support of an Oral Intervention

Deputations from Members of SOSGL to the Joint Review Panel Hearings, 2014

• Joint Review Panel Hearing Documents 2014

• 2014 Hearing Transcript, Presentation by Ontario Clean Air Alliance, Angela Bischoff with Don Hancock, Northwatch affiliate, p. 222.

• 2014 Submission from Xylene Power Ltd (Charles Rhodes) providing his conclusions on pre and post closure safety, waste characterization and siting of the DGR project

Deputations from Members of SOSGL to the Joint Review Panel Hearings, 2015

• Joint Review Panel Report May 2015

Deputations to the Joint Review Panel Hearings referred to SOSGL Reports

• Charles Rhodes, Xylene Power Ltd., Nuclear Waste Disposal Press Release, Feb 7, 2016

• Report and Advice on the Ontario Drinking Water Quality Standard for Tritium by the Ontario Drinking Water Advisory Council

Deputations to Councils

• May 11th, 2015 - Jill Taylor's deputation to Saugeen Shores Council regarding SOS Great Lake's opposition to report released by JRP on DGR 1

• February 27th, 2017 - John Mann, Glenn Sutton and Jill Taylor's delegation regarding the DGR 1 in Kincardine

• June 26th, 2017 - Jill Taylor's deputation to Saugeen Shores Council regarding the OPG's response to the CEAA of May 26th, 2017

Further Reports/Background Documents

• CEAA's Estimated Timeline for the Review of Additional Information on the DGR updated on August 21st 2017.

• Legislative Assembly, Order Paper Questions and Responses

• IEG Report - "Report of the Independent Expert Group on Qualitative Risk Comparisons among Four Alternative Means for Managing the Storage and Disposal of Low and Intermediate‐Level Radioactive Waste in Ontario"

• The Gandalf Group Report on the OPG's DGR, April 2016

• November 9th 2016 - Oral Presentation to Expert Panel Review of Environmental Assessment Processes

• 2013-2014 Presentations to the JRP from Frank Greening.

• Eugene Bourgeois - Nuclear Waste Steering Committee Minutes 2004

• Eugene Bourgeois - Kincardine/NWMO/OPG DGR Community Consultation Committee Minutes March 24th, 2009

• Eugene Bourgeois - Nuclear Waste Steering Committee Minutes 2006

• Eugene Bourgeois - Nuclear Waste Steering Committee Minutes 2005

• Eugene Bourgeois - Kincardine/NWMO/OPG DGR Community Consultation Committee Minutes 2010

• Eugene Bourgeois - Deep Geological Repository Committee Minutes 2007

• Eugene Bourgeois - Deep Geological Repository Committee Minutes 2008

• Eugene Bourgeois - Stigma submission to CEARIS

• 2004 Binder 1 of 3 FOI OPG/Municipal LLW& ILWS to EB

• 2004 Binder 2 of 3 FOI OPG/Municipal LLW& ILWS to EB

• 2004 Binder 3 of 3 FOI OPG/Municipal LLW & ILW to EB

• 2004-06 A01 04 06 Volume 1 OPG/Municipal LLW & ILW

• 2004 05 Binder NWMO

• FOI 2013 01 EB OPG DGR Folder A01 03 Vol 3

• FOI 2013 01 EB OPG DGR Folder A01 03 Vol 2

Correspondence from SOSGL to the Minister and CEAA, 2017

• March 8th 2017 Report to CEAA

• June 26th 2017 Comments of SOS Great Lakes to the Minister of Environment and Climate Change
  and the Canadian Environmental Assessment Agency

• July 28th 2017 EBR Registry Number: 013-560 Provincial Nuclear Emergency Response Plan/Master Plan Public Comments Period

• September 14th 2017 Environmental and Regulatory Reviews: Discussion Paper (June 2017) - Proposed Role of the Canadian Nuclear Safety Commission