Port Hope Area Initiative

Province: Ontario

City/Region: Port Hope and Clarington

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Project End: 2025

Project Type: Remediation

Industry Sector: Other

Project Amount: $1.28 billion

Date of Completion: 2025

Funding Source: Public

Federal Funding: $Atomic Energy of Canada Limited: $1.28 billion

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About The Project

The Port Hope Area Initiative (PHAI) is a federal environmental clean-up program. Its mandate is the remediation and local, long-term, safe management of approximately $1.7 million cubic metres of historic low-level radioactive waste in the municipalities of Port Hope and Clarington in southern Ontario. The historic waste resulted from the radium and uranium refining operations of the former Crown corporation, Eldorado Nuclear Limited, and its private sector predecessors, which operated until 1988.

The PHAI has two projects: the Port Hope Project and the Port Granby Project.

The Port Hope Project involves the construction of an engineered above ground mound and supporting infrastructure for the safe, long-term management of approximately $1.2 million cubic metres of historic low-level radioactive waste, cleanup of the waste from various major sites and small-scale sites in Port Hope and transportation of the waste to a new long-term waste management facility (LTWMF) currently under construction. After the facility is capped and closed, anticipated to be in 2025, ongoing maintenance and monitoring will continue for many years. 

Project Owner: Atomic Energy Canada Ltd., Natural Resources Canada

Project/Construction Manager: Canadian Nuclear Laboratories

Engineer: GHD/MMM Joint Venture; AECOM; WSP; Wood E&I (WSP)

Contractor: Wood-CB&I Joint Venture; ECC/Quantum Murray Limited Partnership; Wood (WSP); Maple Reinders; Kenaidan Contracting Ltd.; Northwind Portage; Milestone Environmental; WSP; Graham

Environmental Services: Golder (WSP) (contamination investigation/remediation; Phase I ESA; geotechnical services); Arcadis-IBI Group; Dillon Consulting; EXP (environmental consulting); Wood (WSP) (geotechnical studies)

Other Key Players: Hanscomb (owner’s preliminary design stage cost consultant and special advisor); Tetra Tech; AtkinsRéalis; E.S. Fox; Colliers Project Leaders; CIMA+; Aon (risk advisor); Bird Construction; Turner & Townsend (cost consultant)

Financiers & Banks: Natural Resources Canada

Legal: Osler; Torys (acted for the lender)

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