Evidence of meeting #48 for Natural Resources in the 40th Parliament, 3rd Session. (The original version is on Parliament’s site, as are the minutes.) The winning word was waste.

A recording is available from Parliament.

On the agenda

MPs speaking

Also speaking

Michael Binder  President and Chief Executive Officer, Canadian Nuclear Safety Commission
Patsy Thompson  Director General, Directorate of Environmental and Radiation Protection and Assessment, Canadian Nuclear Safety Commission
Ramzi Jammal  Executive Vice-President and Chief Regulatory Operations Officer, Canadian Nuclear Safety Commission
Duncan Hawthorne  President and Chief Executive Officer, Bruce Power
Patrick Lamarre  President, SNC-Lavalin Nuclear Inc., Bruce Power

5:20 p.m.

President and Chief Executive Officer, Bruce Power

Duncan Hawthorne

Obviously we have to think of the bounding case here. If it's an accident on the road that is in the vicinity of our site, we would obviously respond to that, along with emergency services.

There is an emergency plan in place already. There are lots of things that travel, so there's an emergency response plan that would fall in place here. That's already a tested, rehearsed thing.

Should it occur at sea, then again there's a response plan which involves a graduated response, if I can call it that, in terms of what has occurred. One form of response is whether it happened in a dock, on the Great Lakes, or out in international waters. But the plan and all of those elements have been tested.

5:20 p.m.

Conservative

The Chair Conservative Leon Benoit

Thank you, Mr. Anderson.

Thank you to all members of the committee for your questions.

The bells should start ringing for the vote in just a couple of minutes.

Thank you very much, Mr. Hawthorne, and to all panellists, for coming and giving us the information we need to do a good study of this issue.

The meeting is adjourned.