A Vancouver company behind the proposed Raven coal mine south of Courtenay has accused B.C.’s environmental assessment office of bias. In a letter posted on the government website, Stephen Ellis, president of Compliance Energy Corp., states that he sees little merit in sitting down with officials to discuss further environmental assessment options for the mine near Buckley Bay.
He says the office is “not treating the proposed Raven Underground Coal Project in a fair and transparent manner and that the project would never be able to achieve an [environmental assessment] certificate given the built-in biases in the review process.”
Ellis, who could not be reached for an interview, further blames the “protracted” and “exceedingly costly” process for the loss of two major international investors, Itochu Corp. of Japan and LG International Corp. of South Korea.
Lindsay Kines – Times Colonist – September 2, 2015.
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