An Indigenous-owned company has unveiled ambitious plans for an effluent pipe, sewage lagoon and nuclear waste storage facility — all in the heart of downtown Ottawa.
“We are going to get this effluent pipe, sewage lagoon and nuclear waste storage facility built,” vowed Marshall Commander, Chief of the Algonquins of Keenuk Lake.
“It is a project in the national interest of the Algonquin people.”
Keenuk Lake is the owner of Transpose Corporation, which plans to begin construction of the multi-million dollar project — called the Niimiizii Complex — as early as this fall.
While Commander said the project will bring many good jobs to the Nation’s Capital, not everyone is enthused.
“This is outrageous,” said Eugene Brickell, who works for a large mining company with operations in Canada and across Latin America and whose house will be in the construction zone. “There has been zero consultation and can you imagine what this effluent pipe, sewage lagoon and nuclear waste storage facility is going to do to our neighbourhood?”
Despite the anger, Commander told reporters that the effluent pipe, sewage lagoon and nuclear waste storage facility are just phase one of the project. Phase two, set to begin construction in 2020, will see a large golf course built on top of Beechwood Cemetery.
