Next Month Saugeen Ojibway Nation will vote yes or no to if they want a Deep Geological Repository (DGR) on their territory.
On Jan 31, 2020 a vote will take place and is available to any member of SON 16 years of age or older.
If the SON membership says no, the DGR will not be built in the area.
If SON members vote yes to the project they would then begin negotiating an agreement with OPG.
Benefits from the agreement would include: jobs, funds, training, involvement in future decisions about the DGR and Stewardship Rights.
The Nuclear Waste Management Organization has narrowed its focus to three potential areas for the DGR for used nuclear fuel and those sites are South Bruce or Huron-Kinloss.
In 2013, Ontario Power Generation (OPG) made a commitment to not build its proposed DGR for low-and intermediate-level nuclear waste without the support of First Nations Communities.