RE:two more weeks UD, I understand the frustration but please don't misplace it. There is plenty of injustice to go around in this world and some of it certainly appears to have been done in residential schools by groups such as the OMI, as representatives of the Vatican and with the allowance/support of previous governments from decades gone by. There have also, perhaps, been injustices resulting from our forefathers actions as well as some injustices done to our forefathers that made them want to emigrate from persecution in their previous homelands. While the newfound attention to some of this country's, and moreover, the world's injustices seems to be dominating the current news cycle here in Canada, and as much as they are pressing matters that deserve to be dealt with in their own right, none of those issues is really the heart of the matter for our project.
My hope is that everybody involved in this decision understands what is at stake and how their own and other's interests are affected either way. I just want a fair and informed decision that evaluates the project on its own merits and impacts. If Andrew Weaver says this is the one decision of the previous government that really sticks in his craw, that gives me plenty of hope that it's not just my biased opinion making me feel that way and that there was truly something awry with the previous government's handling of our project. We all should understand that this is the only mine in fhe history of the province since the inception of the environmental assessment act to be refused a certificate despite a finding of no adverse environmnetal impacts. Alternatively, there have been numerous projects that received certificates despite findings of significant adverse impacts.
My take is that the concerns eventually raised by that prievious government (years after the original decision) to support their 2012 refusal to issue the EA certificate are things that, for other projects, have been addressed at the mines act permitting decision level, rather than the environmental assessment level. It seems like it was contrived to confuse the big picure of whether the project can be done safely and responsibly for the benefit the province with what are are the exact conditions by which the project should be allowed to proceed to best mitigate potentially negative impacts.
But that's just my 2 cents. Given that my prediction on when a decision might come down was out by more than 3 weeks - who knows what else I might be wrong about?
Anyway, hopefully we don't have to wait too much longer to hear the verdict. All of our patience is clearly running thin. GLTA!