In my personal experience, travelling with the NWMO on some occasions as a guest speaker and speaking to indigenous communities in local town hall meetings of the towns that were in contention, back when there were many more than two, my comment that it was a good process was from the observations of that, plus their three-year listening process, which was painful from the point of view of not being able to provide counterarguments to what I was hearing. Then I realized that it was brilliant. They have listened for three years and written down and addressed the needs of the people they were visiting across Canada, and then going into the communities and speaking to the indigenous communities.
When there's time for respectful, rational discussion—I don't mean addressing the demonstrators out in front of the building, but I mean inside in the quiet room—looking at diagrams and asking what scares you about this aspect, what scares your family, and then answering—