Organizing for a cause goes on in the reality of COVID-19, and a coalition of groups opposed to Canada’s current radioactive waste policy got additional impetus back in February when the International Atomic Energy Agency ruled our nation’s Radioactive Waste Management Policy Framework was missing vital policy elements.
The over one hundred civil society organizations and scientific experts are calling on Federal minister of Natural Resources (Seamus O’Regan) to suspend all decision-making involving radioactive waste disposal until Canada has a sufficient radioactive waste policy in place.
Other commitments requested by signees included that Canada establish underlying objectives and principles for a nuclear waste policy and strategy, and that Canada identify the problems and issues posed by existing and accumulating radioactive waste.
For more information, local contact Ole Hendrickson of the Concerned Citizens of Renfrew County and Area can be reached by email at ole@nrtco.net
