The report, authored by six scholars including SFU professor Rosemary Collard and UBC professor Jessica Dempsey, concludes the province’s environmental impact…
Collard said the lack of tracking allowed mine operators to break their “social contract” to deliver a certain level of economic gain in exchange for access to public resources.
“The Environmental Assessment Office has a strong interest in research like this and are always looking for ways to improve our methods, effects assessment conclusions and recommendations and ultimately better support ministers’ decisions on whether or not a major project is approved to move forward,” the statement from the office says.Article content
That project examines the “accelerating loss of wild abundance,” including the loss of caribou habitat and population in northeastern B.C. “It is explicit in the decision letter that those economic benefits were what tipped the balance in favour of doing the project,” Collard said, speaking in general of mines that had review. “And so to then just walk away and not find out if those benefits were delivered ⦠most businesses would be keeping much better track.”
He also said coal that was deliberately left in the ground when prices dipped, then extracted after the end of the study period in 2019, had created “hundreds of millions of dollars” in economic activity and supported thousands of jobs.Article content
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