Standing Committee on Environmental Protection, Water and Waste Management

C. McKenney WHEREAS Ottawa City Council is aware of the intention of the privately-owned Canadian Nuclear Laboratories (CNL) to build a Near Surface Disposal Facility (NSDF) for low and intermediate nuclear waste, including plutonium and high-activity cobalt-60, at the Chalk River Laboratories on the Ottawa River; and WHEREAS we are on unceded Algonquin, Anishinabek territory; and WHEREAS in May of 2017, the Anishinabek Nation and the Iroquois Caucus issued a Joint Declaration that stated their opposition to the abandonment of radioactive waste on their territory as they have an “intimate relationship to the land [and] waters” and believe that they “need to protect the lands, waters and all living things for future generations”; and WHEREAS these planned waste facilities are likely to be increasingly subject to large-scale flooding and are located in an active earthquake zone; and WHEREAS the NSDF “engineered mound” would cover an area the size of 70 NHL hockey rinks and hold 1,000,000 cubic metres of radioactive waste, including waste transported from former reactors and nuclear research sites in Manitoba, Quebec and Ontario, as well as highly-radioactive industrial wastes from private companies; and WHEREAS CNL also proposes to entomb the Rolphton Nuclear Power Demonstration (NPD) reactor and its nuclear components in grout and concrete, less than 200 metres from the Ottawa River; and WHEREAS the International Atomic Energy Agency says entombment is not an acceptable strate

C. McKenney WHEREAS pursuant to Subsection 59 of the Procedure By-law , a Notice of Motion was submitted for consideration at the City Council Meeting of February 24, 2021 seeking Council’s approval of a resolution opposing the Chalk River Nuclear Waste Facility; and WHEREAS, further to discussions with the Chair of the Standing Committee on Environmental Protection, Water and Waste Management (SCEPWWM), it would be appropriate for this matter to receive further review and consideration by the Standing Committee before Council takes a position on this matter; and WHEREAS referring this matter to the Standing Committee would allow for the opportunity to receive delegations from residents and other interested parties; and WHEREAS the next meeting of the Standing Committee is scheduled to take place on March 30, 2021; THEREFORE BE IT RESOLVED that the Kavanagh/ McKenney Motion re: Chalk River Nuclear Waste Facility be

WHEREAS pursuant to Subsection 59 of the Procedure By-law , a Notice of Motion was submitted for consideration at the City Council Meeting of February 24, 2021 seeking Council’s approval of a resolution opposing the proposed Chalk River Nuclear Waste Facility; and WHEREAS this matter will be further