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Please find attached to this email, a pdf copy of the news released today.
In response to the offer made by the EAO in February of 2020 and the materials submitted to the EAO during the summer, George Heyman, Minister of Environment & Climate Change Strategy and Bruce Ralston, Minister of Energy, Mines and Low Carbon Innovation, have rescinded the Further Assessment Order (Section 17 Order) issued in July 2015 under the Environmental Assessment Act (2002). The next step is for the EAO to provide the referral materials to Ministers for their decision on whether or not to issue an Environmental Assessment Certificate for the Morrison project.
To ensure administrative and procedural fairness of the decision, the referral materials will be limited to the materials that were provided to the then-Ministers as part of the previous 2015 decision and the 2015 Ministers’ reasons for decision, and; a covering memo listing the materials within. No new recommendation from the EAO will be submitted.
Once the decision package has been provided to Ministers, the Ministers decision will be subject to a legislated timeline of 45 days from the date of the referral.
We are pleased to have completed the first stage in this process.