Residents of an Ontario farm community that may become the site for a deep underground facility housing Canada’s radioactive waste were given an all-expenses-paid trip to Finland to see first hand what that future might look like.
The municipality of South Bruce has been engaged in a years-long process to decide whether it wants to become host for a $23-billion facility that aims to safely seal away Canada’s huge stockpile of nuclear waste for millennia.
The municipality (which includes the farming towns of Teeswater, Mildmay, Formosa and Salem) along with the Ontario community of Ignace, about a four-hour drive northwest of Thunder Bay, are the only two Canadian communities being considered for