Why is this located along the Trans Canada Highway?

I own property very close to the proposed site and along the proposed transport route.  Additionally I am a Geologist, so is my wife.  We are extremely opposed to the selected projects location on the grounds that it is located along the Trans Canada Highway and also will require to be transported along the TransCanada Highway or the adjacent rail lines.  We believe there exists multiple locations that are *not right along the trans canada highway*
 

 I can understand wanting to move the waste from where it is.  Given where nuclear power looks to be headed, this will be a very busy facility over the next 100 yrs or so.  However, i cannot see the logic in its placement along the Trans Canada Highway!  Why would the Government of Canada approve a location that puts its main artery of transportation at such a risk??

Can the rate-payer-funded budget not afford to find a theoretically geologically appropriate host rock somewhere far far far to the north in an as-suitable host rock where there are no trans national transportation corridors?  It cannot be for cost reasons.  Projects like this that are supposedly in the nations great interest are *not* restricted to a potential location along the trans canada highway!!  

I find it far far to conveniently located for me to believe that the vast and deep geological knowledge bank could not find a location that was both geologically appropriate AND socioeconomically appropriate.  Why are we knowingly allowing one of the best funded private organizations to place this beside the Trans Canada Highway?  

It seems absolutely obvious that any selected location should have a very large buffer, say 300klm, buffer from the Countries main transportation route!  Not to mention the train routes that are also in the nations best interest!  If we are planning for geologic risk here, which I do this is a great idea, plan for future ice ages--it shows long sightedness...But i do have to ask the question what about between then and now!?  This repository should be very far away from the Trans Canada Highway!!!  
 

Much further north, there will be batholiths as technically feasible, that are not located along Canadas main transportation hub!  The number of unsuspecting travellers that will be driving into a potential dissaster zone if there was to be a breach, seems like an missed risk  Why?  
 

 I simply do *not* believe that the NWMO has done enough due diligence to select this site  

The Canadian Government gave the mandate to the power companies to find a host  They created the NWMO, and not too surprisingly they chose a location conveniently located along the Trans Canada Highway!

There are locations much further North, not along the trans canada, and i believe the NWMO has taken the easy way out  They have a duty to find a host location that is both technically safe in terms of what we think is geologically safe, but also socioeconomically safe and right beside the trans canada highway.

The Government of Canada should *not* approve this selection!  The Government may consider requesting a location be found that has a a large 300klm buffer away from the Trans Canada Highway.  

Why would we put this transportation artery at risk?

Ryan M, Geologist and Land Owner between Ignace and the proposed site.