Environment minister responds to chief's concerns about toxic sewage spill at Chalk River

Minister of Environment and Climate Change Steven Guilbeault rises during Question Period in the House of Commons on Parliament Hill in Ottawa on June 13. The federal environment minister is open to improvements after an Algonquin leader raised concerns about a toxic sewage spill at the Chalk River nuclear research laboratory about 175 kilometres west of Ottawa.

Haymond expressed "grave concern" about a perceived lack of transparency and poor communication around the event. He's approaching the minister's response with qualified optimism. Chief Lance Haymond of Kebaowek First Nation, right, discusses his opposition to a planned radioactive waste dump near the Ottawa River at Chalk River Laboratories, in Ottawa, in June 2023.

This means the effluent, or treated wastewater the facility discharges into the Ottawa River, was found to be toxic to fish. Discharging acutely toxic effluent into freshwaterCNL reported it to the Ontario Spills Action Centre, while Environment Canada received notice of the failure on March 8, the minister said, adding that an enforcement officer issued a corrective direction on April 23.

Earlier this year, the country's nuclear regulator approved CNL's plan to build a radioactive waste landfill at the Chalk River site, something Kebaowek and local groups have launched court challenges to stop. "To what level and to what scope? Again, we don't know because it's taking CNL's word that, even though it was toxic, it didn't have an environmental impact."to a webpage containing dataA view of part of the Chalk River Laboratories research facility from the water. The Second World War-era facility is an active atomic research campus.

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