Federal environment minister wants more Indigenous involvement in Far North industry impact assessment
Ottawa’s decision to scrap plans for a Ring of Fire regional assessment process won’t interfere with the province’s intentions to get new mines into production faster.
“We are actively working with the federal government and have been assured that the Regional Assessment will not impact the timelines for the Webequie Supply Road, Marten Falls Community Access Road, Northern Road Link or any other future project assessments at the provincial or federal level. In a nationally significant resources project like the Ring of Fire that means Ontario must have good coordination with the federal regulatory bodies.
The Narwhal obtained a follow-up letter from Guilbeault’s office after the meeting that was sent to Attawapiskat Chief Sylvia Metatawabin-Koostachin, their legal advisor, as well as Pirie. The Regional Assessment was a new-out-of-the-box process that then federal Environment Minister Jonathan Wilkinson called for three years ago. But it never really got started.
In an effort to tackle what has been regulatory agency misalignment, Ottawa and Queen’s Park pledge to work better together, when it comes to critical minerals projects, to avoid redundancies in the assessment processes.
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