Expert pans OPG’s environmental impact statement
Source: Kincardine News
Ontario Power Generation was forced to defend its plan to store low- to intermediate-level nuclear waste deep beneath the ground beside Lake Huron after a key expert questioned the “credibility” and “reliability” of the methods used to write the project’s environmental impact statement (EIS).
Dr. Peter Duinker, an expert in environmental impact assessment, appeared before the independent joint review panel tasked with considering the proposed deep geologic repository (DGR), Thursday, Sept. 3, 2013.
The panel asked Duinker to assess the methods OPG used to identify significant and cumulative effects the project will have on the environment.
Duinker said there were “significant flaws of approach and method” and the work was “not credible,” the methods used “not defensible” and the conclusions “not reliable.”
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