OTTAWA — The new Liberal government has pushed back the deadline for approving a plan to bury nuclear waste near Lake Huron.
The decision will now come by March 1.
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The government was initially supposed to decide by September whether to greenlight the proposed deep geologic repository.
However, the previous Conservative government pushed that back until December – after the election.
A $1-billion underground storage bunker near Kincardine, Ont., has won preliminary approval, but needs a green light from Ottawa.
Critics – many of them Americans – argue it would be folly to bury the toxic waste close to the lake but proponents say it’s safe.
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