Environmental Group Fights Canadian DGR

A Canadian environmental group has asked a federal court to squash the Joint Review Panel’s environmental assessment report on Ontario Power Generation’s proposed deep geologic repository, the group announced late last week. Save Our Saugeen Shores, the group filing the appeal, argued the Panel failed to adhere to its bylaws, resulting in a biased report, which backed the safety and environmental case for the low-level and intermediate-level repository. “If the Federal government is not prepared to respect its own environmental laws and processes, how can they expect Canadian industry and the Canadian public to do so?” SOS President Jill Tyler said in a statement. “Moreover, as we have stated in our Notice of Application to the Federal Court, the entire process disclosed a regrettable lack of detachment between the regulated and the regulator.”