The Port Hope Project and Port Granby projects, a $1.3-billion combined federal investment for a multi-year cleanup of low-level radioactive waste in the Lake Ontario communities, were set to enter their largest construction phase as the coronavirus pandemic began.
But that quickly ground to a halt due to worker safety and emergency orders to limit the spread of COVID-19, the disease caused by the virus. “We had a lot of work happening already in the waterfront.
We were about to hit a major milestone with the dredging of thousands of tons of contaminated sediment from Port Hope’s harbour.
We are also testing 5,000 properties for the presence or absence of low-level radioactive waste, which were about to start construction,” said Bill Daly,