Tag: nwmo
LETTER: Is South Bruce still a divided community?
It is just over six months since the Nuclear Waste Management Organization (NWMO) left South Bruce and chose the township of Ignace as the location for the Deep Geological Repository (DGR) for high level nuclear waste. At the end of May 2025, the NWMO did close the “Learn More Centre” on Clinton Street in Teeswater. […]
Community Well-being Program ends in Huron-Kinloss as NWMO exits
The Township received a one-time “acknowledgement payment” of $750,000 for community sustainability and well-being initiatives.
NWMO closing Teeswater office, to dispose of DGR site lands
The Nuclear Waste Management Organization’s offices in Teeswater will close to the public on Friday and the organization plans to dispose of the lands it had secured for a potential underground used nuclear fuel vault in South Bruce. The more than 1,800 acres of land the organization had secured in South Bruce through a series […]
Bruce Power executive responds to SON moratorium statement
Bruce Power executive James Scongack discussed Saugeen Ojibway Nation’s nuclear moratorium warning at Grey County council Thursday. Bruce Power operates nuclear reactors in the territory, along the Lake Huron shoreline near Tiverton, and is exploring building an additional nuclear plant at the site. The Ontario Power Generation’s Western Waste Management Facility stores nuclear waste there […]
SON to issue nuclear moratorium if no progress on ‘legacy issues’
Saugeen Ojibway Nation says it plans to issue a moratorium on future nuclear intensification and waste projects if no progress is made on nuclear legacy issues in its territory. A joint letter from Nawash Chief Greg Nadjiwon and Saugeen Chief Conrad Ritchie sent to SON members on Wednesday says the joint chiefs and councils of […]