Thank you.
The 2006 environmental assessment was conducted for the retrofit of units at the Bruce Power plant. Waste management was only a small part of the assessment. The assessment was designed to ascertain whether the retrofit could be done safely without impact on the environment. The plan was to leave the steam generators in situ in the waste management facility at the Bruce Power plant.
The Federal Court has been very clear in several cases, specifically Athabasca Regional Government v. Canada (A.G.) and Areva Resources Canada Inc. This case pertained to the McClean Lake uranium mine. The Canadian Environmental Assessment Act applies to the planning process. The role of the regulatory body—in this case, the Commission—is to ensure that the process include an assessment of any new environmental risk reduction technology used as well as an evaluation of the technology’s impact on the environment. This is what was done.