RE: RE: DSO project timeline"NML submitted an Environmental Impact Statement for Area 3 to the Government of Newfoundland and Labrador at the end of 2009. Based on NML's knowledge of the GNL's procedures, an approval is expected in May 2010." The EIS was approved in January 2011. So NML management is partially at fault for submitting the EIS late, and underestimating how slow governments can move. The Labrador government is at fault for taking more than a year to review the EIS. If the process for a low-impact DSO project takes this long imagine how long the pipeline approval process will take.
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I suppose every Labrador iron ore company is on notice that it will probably take at least 1 year to receive government approval of their environmental plans.