Areva to Valcourt: reject Nunavut board’s Kiggavik decision – Nunatsiaq News
July 07, 2015
Company says NIRB did not use “available remedies” to deal with uranium project’s unknown start date
Areva Canada has asked the federal government to reject the Nunavut Impact Review Board’s final report, which recommends the company’s proposed uranium project not go ahead because of the company’s inability to provide a firm start date.
After a lengthy environmental assessment process that began in 2009, the NIRB said this past May that Areva’s Kiggavik uranium project “should not proceed at this time.”
The absence of a project start date raises too many questions about the future environmental and social impacts of the mine and makes it too difficult to accurately assess those impacts, the NIRB said.
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