Risk/Benefit approach Risk/ Benefit Approach
The term risk/benefit approach is in my sense nothing more and nothing less than the ability to use personal preferences and not the true science of the environmental assessment. Throughout the latter stages of the environmental assessment this term risk/benefit started to pop up and in my mind the EAO, MOE and MEM offices were desperately looking for ways they could stop this project. They couldn’t stop it through the science and they couldn’t end it with the continued barrage of new requirements including two independent reviews from Robertson GeoConsultants Inc. And Solander Ecological Research Ltd. No Adverse Effects!
The EAO had no choice but to add in a new term ” risk/benefit” to the process in August, 2012. This was, in my personal opinion, the only way they could conceivably reject this Morrison Project in what many of the ministry staff in their summary conclusions would refer to as a pristine environment.
I hope through the court that the ministries are taken to task on their effort to roadblock BKM by their continued goal post changes at trying to bankrupt BKM both financially and intellectually.
I see what could turn out to be a class action suit not only against the government, it’s ministry’s but also those inside the ministry who have used their own personal biases to help turn this environmental assessment into a very orchestrated circus event.