For Immediate Release– Solidarity with the Algonquin Nation

The Canada Nuclear Laboratory (CNL) commission approved the building of a Near Surface Disposal Facility [NSDF] on Jan. 9 2024 in unceded Algonquin territory approximately 180 km west of the nation's capital Ottawa in Quebec to bury contaminated materials and dispose of limited kinds of nuclear waste at the Chalk River Nuclear Laboratories campus in Deep River, Ont.  The site location is just over a kilometer from the Kichi Sibi, an area sacred to Algonquin peoples and at the heart of their unceded homeland.

For Immediate Release– Solidarity with the Algonquin Nation

The Canada Nuclear Laboratory (CNL) commission approved the building of a Near Surface Disposal Facility [NSDF] on Jan. 9 2024 in unceded Algonquin territory approximately 180 km west of the nation's capital Ottawa in Quebec to bury contaminated materials and dispose of limited kinds of nuclear waste at the Chalk River Nuclear Laboratories campus in Deep River, Ont. 


The site location is just over a kilometer from the Kichi Sibi, an area sacred to Algonquin peoples and at the heart of their unceded homeland.