After making the rounds in Toronto earlier this week, Environment Minister Catherine McKenna is back in the capital — to unveil a fresh tranche of federal funding for EnviroCentre, a non-profit group based in her home riding of Ottawa Centre that, according to its website, “helps residents, businesses and organizations conserve energy and reduce their impact on the environment while saving money.”

She may, however, wind up fielding questions on a far more contentious initiative that a trio of Ottawa-area Green candidates is billing as “the other SNC-Lavalin affair”: namely, the proposed new nuclear waste disposal site at the Chalk River power plant, which opponents contend poses a serious threat to the Ottawa River.

According to the notice, Green hopefuls Angela Keller Herzog, Lorraine Rekmans and Claude Bertrand will team up with local protesters for a mid-morning press conference at Westboro Beach to “explain the role” of the Quebec-based engineering giant and two American corporations “in planning a mound of nuclear waste near the Ottawa River,” as well as the role of the federal government in “funding and enabling them.”

Meanwhile, Canadian Heritage Minister Pablo Rodriguez drops by the Montreal headquarters of Artitalia Group with new federal support to bolster the steel and aluminum sector.

Finally, Fisheries Minister Jonathan Wilkinson continues to wend his way across Saskatchewan, starting with a tour of “recently completed safety improvement projects” at the Prince Albert airport before making his way to La Ronge for an “important infrastructure event” alongside provincial officials.

AT COMMITTEE

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