We call upon the Manitoba government to protect Manitobans by opposing the siting of a high-level nuclear waste repository near Revell Lake in NW Ontario.
The site sits upstream of Lake of the Woods, Shoal Lake and Lake Winnipeg, and if selected, will be the final burial place of all of Canada’s toxic, radioactive waste from current and future nuclear reactors – presently estimated at 132 thousand tonnes and counting.
All the waste will need to be transported thousands of kilometers on northern Ontario highways before being repackaged, stored and then abandoned in this scientifically unproven plan.
Remaining dangerous for literally millennia, there is no way to guarantee that radioactive isotopes will not eventually migrate into surrounding waters and from there into the broader environment, contaminating life in its pathway.
A dozen downstream Indigenous communities are on the record opposing the Revell site, yet they have never been officially consulted. Manitoba has not been consulted.
We ask that you stand up for Manitoba’s waters and the communities that depend on them by publicly opposing the site, sharing Manitoba’s concerns with federal counterparts, and actively monitoring the environmental impacts and safety risks.
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