E-7247 Opposition to Nuclear Waste Facility Petition Tracker | Signature Growth — Canadian Petition Tracker
Track E-7247 — Opposition to Nuclear Waste Facility — with 1,116 signatures and counting. Sponsored by Leah Gazan. See signature growth trends and provincial breakdown on PetitionTracker.ca.
Canonical URL: https://petitiontracker.ca/petition/e-7247
Petition Details
- Status: Closed
- Closing date: July 8, 2026
- Sponsor: Leah Gazan (Winnipeg Centre)
- Category: Natural resources and energy
Signature Statistics
- Total signatures: 1,116
- Daily increase: +18 in the last 24 hours
- Seven-day increase: +30 over the last 7 days
- Growth velocity: ~4 new signatures per day (7-day average)
- Tracking started: March 25, 2026 — 229 data points recorded
Milestones
- 1,000 signatures reached on May 29, 2026 — total at that point: 1,000
- Debate threshold (500 signatures) reached on March 25, 2026 — total at that point: 624
Provincial Distribution
- Ontario: 465 signatures
- Quebec: 322 signatures
- British Columbia: 165 signatures
- Alberta: 51 signatures
- Saskatchewan: 38 signatures
- Nova Scotia: 19 signatures
- Manitoba: 16 signatures
- New Brunswick: 14 signatures
- Newfoundland and Labrador: 9 signatures
- Northwest Territories: 3 signatures
- Nunavut: 2 signatures
- Yukon: 1 signatures
Historical Signature Growth
| Date | Signatures |
|---|
| March 25, 2026 | 512 |
| March 29, 2026 | 535 |
| April 6, 2026 | 556 |
| April 11, 2026 | 580 |
| April 17, 2026 | 603 |
| May 3, 2026 | 627 |
| May 18, 2026 | 648 |
| May 24, 2026 | 817 |
| May 28, 2026 | 986 |
| June 3, 2026 | 1,024 |
| June 14, 2026 | 1,061 |
| June 27, 2026 | 1,082 |
| July 8, 2026 | 1,116 |
Petition Text
Petition to the Government of Canada
Whereas:
• The Canadian Nuclear Safety Commission (CNSC) approved the amendment to the Canadian Nuclear Laboratories (CNL) license at Chalk River for the construction of a Near Surface Nuclear Disposal Facility (NSDF) without getting the free, prior, and informed consent to the consultation process of Kebaowek First Nation, as per United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples, and without properly following the Species at Risk Act;
• This NSDF would hold over 1 million cubic metres of nuclear waste - waste that could take approximately 300 years for the radioactivity to wear off, and would be built a mere 1.1 km from the Kichi Sibi (Ottawa River) - where 2 million people get their drinking water from;
• CNL has not proven that they considered all reasonable alternatives or justified why the chosen site was the best. CNL only looked at sites owned by Atomic Energy of Canada Limited (AECL), without analyzing whether non-AECL land might offer advantages; and
• We should all be standing in solidarity with Kebaowek First Nation against this proposed NSDF on their land, as it poses a risk to the water, forests, animals and people.
We, the undersigned, residents of Canada, call upon the Government of Canada to issue a directive under Section 19 (1) of the Nuclear Safety and Control Act to order the CNSC to revoke the licensing of the NSDF at Chalk River.
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