Monday, January 23, 2012

Public Comment Period starts for New Prosperity Mine Project...

Earlier today, the Canadian Environmental Assessment Agency (CEAA) released the draft Terms of Reference for the Review Panel reviewing the New Prosperity Mine Project and you can read that here

As well - the CEAA has released the draft guidelines for the EIS or Environmental Impact Statement - you can read that here

Comments on both the draft guidelines for the EIS and the draft Terms of Reference for the Review Panel must be sent in by no later than Wednesday, February 22nd, 2012, as follows:

Email: NewProsperityReview@ceaa-acee.gc.ca

Mail:

Livain Michaud, Panel Manager
Canadian Environmental Assessment Agency
160 Elgin Street, 22nd Floor
Ottawa ON K1A 0H3

Telephone:  1-613-948-1359 (Ottawa) or Toll-Free at 1-866-582-1884
Fax:  1-613-957-0941 (Ottawa)

As well - the groups getting participant funding of $90,000 are as follows:

1) Friends of Nemaiah Valley - $19,000
2) BC Sierra Club - $18,603
3) MiningWatch Canada - $15,885
4) Williams Lake and District Chamber of Commerce - $12,676
5) Environmental Mining Education Foundation - $12,285
6) Share the Cariboo – Chilcotin Resources Society - $11,356
7) Federico G. Osorio - $1,195

You can read the Committee report recommending the above amounts here

This puts a potential timeline (my view) of a Review Panel for the New Prosperity Mine Project being in this region by April or even May of 2012 - stay tuned!

SBF


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