I n a landmark decision announced this past November, Canada’s Nuclear Waste Management Organization, or the NWMO, selected the municipality of Ignace in Northwestern Ontario as the site for the country’s first deep geological repository—DGR—for spent nuclear fuel. The repository is to be located within the traditional territory of the Wabigoon Lake Ojibway Nation, forty-three kilometres from Ignace.
The road to this landmark decision, though, has been anything but easy.
