Public Notice: Participant funding for Denison's Wheeler River Project

This participant funding opportunity is open from February 3 to April 4, 2025. For details on how to apply, please see the original posting here: Participant funding for Denison's Wheeler River Project

Participant funding notice

The Canadian Nuclear Safety Commission (CNSC) is offering participant funding to assist Indigenous Nations and communities, members of the public and interested parties in reviewing the environmental assessment (EA) and licence application for Denison's Wheeler River Project and in participating in a future Commission hearing process. This is the second opportunity to apply for participant funding for the Wheeler River Project. The Commission has not yet announced any details, such as date or location, for a hearing on Denison's application. For more information on the earlier Wheeler River funding opportunity, please see the previous participant funding notice.

Denison is proposing to develop an in situ recovery uranium mining and processing operation located in the Athabasca Basin in northern Saskatchewan, approximately 600 km north of the city of Saskatoon, 4 km west of Highway 914, and midway between Cameco Corporation's Key Lake Mill and McArthur River Mine. The proposed Wheeler River mine would produce up to 12 million pounds of uranium concentrate (U₃O₈) annually for 15 years. Under the Nuclear Safety and Control Act, Denison's proposal requires CNSC authorization, which must include an EA decision under the Canadian Environmental Assessment Act, 2012 affirming that the proposed activities will not cause significant adverse environmental effects, followed by a licensing decision.

For further details on Denison's proposal and the EA process, please see the Canadian Impact Assessment Registry. The date and location of associated , as well as information on how the public will be invited to participate in them, will be announced at a later date in a notice of public hearing.

Up to $250,000 in participant funding will be disbursed among all successful applicants. Funding will be awarded for the review of documentation, including the EA report and CNSC staff's and Denison's Commission member documents, and for participation in associated and yet-to-be-announced public Commission hearings, where applicants will be given the opportunity to provide new, distinctive and valuable information through informed and topic-specific interventions to the Commission.