"The publicly available reports never went into much detail on...

"The publicly available reports never went into much detail on the very issues being raised last night."

Some of them maybe not, others definitely did. I have read one which was extremely detailed. It described the number and location of monitor bores and the results of the monitoring in three zones - within the reactor, adjacent to the reactor, and around the reactor. It also describes how these results differ from Hoe Creek and mostly importantly, WHY.

And it was written by... M. Blinderman and S. Fidler.

Doesn't get much more "from the source" than that. And I don't see why what Peter Bond thinks about it would matter. Linc has no IP rights over it, especially since neither of its authors were ever Linc employees. It's a publically available reference, and Cougar could easily have cited it or others like it in a presentation if they wanted.

Why they didn't do that, I don't know. Maybe they figure that, having convinced DERM, they don't need to go into specifics with community groups. The science would certainly go over the heads of your average Joe Citizen.