Chronology 1932-2016

1932 1948-1974 1982-present 2000 2011 Eldorado Gold Mine Ltd. Used equipment, incineration, etc. LLRWMO investigates, The Government of CNSC grants 10-year licence for opens radium refining facilities in (not residue) stored at Pidgeon Hill characterizes and consolidates and Hope Township, Port Hope Port Granby Project. Port Hope storage compound certain waste within the Town (now amalgamated to form the of Port Hope and establishes Municipality of Port Hope) and 2012-2013 1933-1939 1948-1954 Construction Monitoring Program Clarington initial Principles of Phase 2 construction begins when Processing residues retained on Residues stored at Welcome to minimize contamination spread Understanding outlining terms Government of Canada commits plant site Disposal Area in Hope Township, for a project to clean up low-level $1.28 billion to complete the approximately 3 km northwest of 1988 radioactive waste Port Hope and Port Granby 1934-1944 the plant site Ltd. sold to projects. Processing residues stored privately owned Corp. 2001 300-400 metres west of plant site 1953-1954 The Port Hope Area CNSC grants 10-year licence for (Lakeshore Disposal Area) Radium refining stops, facilities The federal government establishes Port Hope Project. a Siting Task Force on Low-level Initiative begins dismantled and removed from A Legal Agreement is signed which 1930s-1970s Radioactive Waste Management Contracts awarded to build plant site commits the federal government Properties and sites in the to site a permanent management Port Granby Project clean and the municipalities to the safe Town of Port Hope become 1955-1988 facility for Port Hope area wastes construction material cleanup, transportation, isolation contaminated from spillage during Waste management operations transportation route and and long-term management of transportation, unrecorded, moved approximately 13 km 1988-1996 Port Hope and Port Granby project historic, low-level radioactive waste unmonitored or unauthorized west to Port Granby Residue Siting Task Force invites all waste water treatment plants. municipalities to consider diversion of contaminated fill and Area in Clarke Township, now 2002-2009 hosting a long-term management Property Radiological Survey materials, wind and water erosion Municipality of Clarington Environmental Assessments facility for low-level radioactive begins investigations of all and spread from residue storage completed for Port Hope and Port 1962 waste but no agreement is reached properties in urban Port Hope and areas Granby projects. Company becomes Eldorado a few in rural area. 1997 1942-1954 Nuclear Ltd. and, in 1982, 2009 Hope Township initiates a PHAI establishes volunteer Citizen Production emphasis shifts from Eldorado Resources Ltd. Port Hope Area Initiative radium to refining community proposal to construct Liaison Groups for both projects. 1976-1981 a long-term waste management Management Office formed as tripartite organization composed 1944 Atomic Energy Control Board facility for wastes at the Welcome 2015-2016 of Atomic Energy of Canada Government of Canada takes over directs a large-scale radiation Waste Management Facility. Construction of Port Granby Limited, Natural Resources Canada Eldorado Gold Mines Ltd. and the reduction program in the Town Project and Port Hope Project and Public Works and Government company is renamed Eldorado of Port Hope (over 100,000 1998 engineered aboveground mounds Services Canada (PWGSC) to carry Mining and Refining Ltd. tonnes of contaminated soil are Port Hope and Clarington also underway. out the Port Hope and Port Granby transferred to a site at Chalk River develop proposals to establish projects. 1945-1948 Laboratories) long-term management facilities Processing residues stored at for low-level radioactive wastes Canadian Nuclear Safety Monkey Mountain Residue Area 1982 within their communities Commission (CNSC) grants initial (beside Highland Drive, then Low-Level Radioactive Waste Port Hope Project licence; in known as Pidgeon Hill) in Management Office (LLRWMO) 2012, 10-year licence amendment Port Hope is established to manage historic granted to complete project. waste in the Town of Port Hope and across Canada