e-4852 (Natural resources and energy)
Original language of petition: English
Petition to the Government of Canada
- The Nuclear Waste Management Organization (NWMO) has been engaged since 2010 in a multi-step process to site a deep geological repository to emplace the high-level nuclear (irradiated fuel) waste from all of Canada’s nuclear power reactors;
- The NWMO project will involve the transportation, processing, burial and abandonment of an estimated seven million bundles of radioactive waste over a 50-year period which would be extended by additional reactor construction or refurbishments;
- The NWMO has repeatedly stated that it will not proceed without an “informed and willing” community;
- There are scientific and public concerns about the risks of radioactive exposures along the transportation route and in the region of and downstream from the repository site under both normal operating and accident conditions;
- The Government of Canada has affirmed the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples which sets out that no storage or disposal of hazardous materials shall take place in the lands or territories of Indigenous peoples without their free, prior and informed consent (Article 29); and
- Canadian law recognizes that every individual in Canada has a right to a healthy environment (CEPA 2023).
- Open for signature
- March 4, 2024, at 1:19 p.m. (EDT)
- Closed for signature
- May 3, 2024, at 1:19 p.m. (EDT)
- Presented to the House of Commons
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Anthony Rota
(Nipissing—Timiskaming)
May 9, 2024 (Petition No. 441-02467)
Only validated signatures are counted towards the total number of signatures.
Province / Territory | Signatures |
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Alberta | 153 |
British Columbia | 418 |
Manitoba | 180 |
New Brunswick | 46 |
Newfoundland and Labrador | 17 |
Northwest Territories | 4 |
Nova Scotia | 68 |
Ontario | 2186 |
Prince Edward Island | 3 |
Quebec | 146 |
Saskatchewan | 72 |
Yukon | 7 |