By Mike Stimpson, Local Journalism Initiative Reporter, Thunder Bay Source WABIGOON LAKE — Wabigoon Lake Ojibway Nation members are receiving their first “milestone payment” from the federally mandated agency that aims to build an underground nuclear repository upstream from their reserve. The application form for what is dubbed an Engagement and Education Payment, in the amount of $145,000, says to qualify a person must have been a band member between Oct. 14 and Nov. 16, 2024. The latter date was the closing day of a referendum on whether the First Nation should proceed as a potential host to the proposed deep geological repository, or DGR. In that referendum, Wabigoon Lake members gave “an overwhelming mandate to continue to the next phase of this project,” Chief Clayton Wetelainen told Newswatch last

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