Paul Hunt<\/strong>, ECC\/Quantum Murray director of environmental services, said that an experienced workforce has been assembled to build the first cell. \u201cOur strong and capable team is excited to be a part of this project. We appreciate the opportunity to work with the Port Hope Area Initiative and look forward to executing the work safely and successfully while meeting the expectations of the community,\u201d said Hunt.<\/p>\nConstruction of the first cell will be completed in late 2017, with placement of waste from within the community expected to begin in 2018.<\/p>\n
ECC\/Quantum Murray, which has already successfully completed other aspects of the PHAI, will adhere to stringent health and safety plans, required by the PHAI under its Canadian Nuclear Safety Commission license for the project. Contractor requirements for the protection of the public, workers and the environment include dust management, occupational health and safety, radiation protection and traffic management.<\/p>\n
Image caption: \u00a0L-R Tim Stemp, senior vice-president, ECC\/Quantum Murray; Paul Hunt, director of environmental services, ECC\/Quantum Murray; Dr. Shannon Quinn, vice-president of technology and commercial oversight, Atomic Energy of Canada; Mayor Bob Sanderson, Municipality of Port Hope; Kim Rudd, MP Northumberland \u2013 Peterborough South\/Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister of Natural Resources; Craig Hebert, Port Hope Area Initiative general manager; Kurt Kehler, vice-president of decommissioning and waste management, Canadian Nuclear Laboratories.<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Port Hope Area Initiative (PHAI) and its governmental and corporate partners participated in a ground-breaking ceremony\u00a0July 7\u00a0at the Port Hope Project, a key milestone in the massive $1.28 billion radioactive waste cleanup initiative. PHAI says this is\u00a0Canada\u2019s largest environmental cleanup, involving the removal of approximately 1.2 million cubic metres of historic low-level radioactive waste […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":4896,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[47,89],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-4895","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-national-news","8":"category-projectsopportunities"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ontarioconstructionreport.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4895"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ontarioconstructionreport.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ontarioconstructionreport.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ontarioconstructionreport.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ontarioconstructionreport.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4895"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/ontarioconstructionreport.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4895\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4898,"href":"https:\/\/ontarioconstructionreport.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4895\/revisions\/4898"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ontarioconstructionreport.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4896"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ontarioconstructionreport.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4895"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ontarioconstructionreport.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4895"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ontarioconstructionreport.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4895"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}