Cameco Corporation Application to Renew Uranium Mill Licence of Key Lake and McArthur River Operations

CELA, with other groups, has submitted an intervention in response to the Canadian Nuclear Safety Commission’s Notice of Public Hearing dated September 20, 2022 requesting comments on the application by Cameco Corporation to renew its licences for the Key Lake and McArthur River Operations for a period of 20 years.

Comments on Draft EIS for New Uranium Mine in Saskatchewan (NexGen’s Rook I Project)

CELA responded to the Draft Environmental Impact Statement (“EIS”) for a proposed uranium mine on the Patterson Lake peninsula in northern Saskatchewan. CELA’s legal analysis of the Draft EIS was accompanied by two expert reports: “Radon and Gamma Monitoring & Workers’ Health" by Luc Lance, and “Source Water Protection” by Dr. Robert Patrick.

The Evolution of Decommissioning Planning

In their chapter titled “The Evolution of Decommissioning Planning: Tracing the Requirements to Consider Radioactive Wastes and Socia Risk of Nuclear Power Plants”, CELA counsel Kerrie Blaise & Greenpeace program director Shawn-Patrick Stensil trace the evolution of decommissioning regulations and policy and compare decommissioning guides among propoheirnents, since their development in 2000 when the Nuclear Safety and Control Act (NSCA) came into force.