Windsor MP expresses relief nuclear waste site will go north [Video]

A planned nuclear waste storage facility won’t be coming to southern Ontario and that is reason to rejoice for Brian Masse, the Windsor West MP and NDP Great Lakes critic.

On Thursday, the Nuclear Waste Management Organization (NWMO) announced it had chosen an area near Wabigoon Lake Ojibway Nation and Ignace in northwestern Ontario, instead of the community of South Bruce and Saugeen Ojibway Nation.

“I think they weren’t ready and there were many steps they needed to go through,” Laurie Swami, the president and CEO of the NWMO, told CTV News. “In the north, we had a good site that met all of our criteria so, it made sense for us to move forward.”

The northern community will become the site of Canada’s first Deep Geologic Repository (DGR) meant to store radioactive material for more than a century.

Masse expressed relief the DGR wouldn’t be coming to the shores of Lake Huron, with a referendum last month narrowly backing a site underneath …