Northwatch is worried that proposed changes would give too much discretion of the Minister of Mines and allow environmental decisions to become political
A veteran environmental activist has asked the Ontario government to slow down on proposed changes to the Ontario Mining Act through Bill 71, also known as Building More Mines Act.
"Well, I think that the message to this standing committee is that they should put the brakes on this set of proposed changes. It's a large package of changes singly or in combination, I think they are going to increase uncertainty," Lloyd said in an interview. "So to file an incomplete closure plan, a mining company would either prior to or at time of filing their closure plan, request basically permission to only file in part and bringing the rest of the closure planning later," said Lloyd.Lloyd said there should be well-defined rules on how mining is permitted. There should be no uncertainty.
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