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| Environmental & Permitting
The Project is currently in the early stages of an environmental assessment process involving both federal and provincial government agencies and will be a state-of-the-art operation designed to meet and exceed health, safety and environmental requirements in Canada.
Knight Piésold initiated the environmental studies for the Ajax Project in 2007, including ground and surface water quality and quantity, climatology, fish and fish habitat, wildlife, and vegetation studies. The environmental study suggests that proven mitigation methods will be effective in controlling environmental effects. Acid base accounting was carried out as part of the environmental baseline study, and the results indicate that the waste rock and ore are not acid generating.
Abacus submitted a Project Description to the BC Environmental Assessment Office (EAO) and the federal Canadian Environmental Assessment Agency (CEAA) in early 2011. The project description was accepted by EAO on February 25, 2011 and on March 16, 2011 by CEAA.
The provincial Environmental Assessment Office issued an Order under Section 10 of the Environmental Assessment Act on February 25, 2011 indicating that the Project must proceed through the provincial Environmental Assessment review. The CEAA commenced a comprehensive study on May 25, 2011 and posted a Notice of Commencement on the CEAA Registry on May 31, 2011. A federal project agreement was signed on August 17, 2011. The draft Project Application Information Requirements (dAIR) was provided to the EAO and CEAA on August 12, 2011 for distribution to the Technical Working Group. The Proponent Application/ Environmental Impact Statement (EIS) is expected to be submitted in 2012.
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