A new study based on three British Columbia coal mines says the economic benefits from the projects, used to justify their approval during the environmental…
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 provincial agency says it wants to ensure “effective, enforceable monitoring requirements” are in place. Collard said the drop in caribou population in the region is accelerated despite a strengthening of the environmental assessment process in the mid-1990s. Michael Goehring, president and CEO of the Mining Association of British Columbia, said he “takes issue” with Collard and Dempsey’s study.
Conuma Resources, which took over operations at the Willow Creek, Wolverine and Brule mines upon the company’s founding in 2016, does not dispute the report’s numbers.
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