With regard to Crown-Indigenous Relations and Northern Affairs Canada's Northern Abandoned Mine Reclamation Program: (a) what has the government identified as the particular (i) engineering, (ii) geological, (iii) environmental, (iv) social, challenges of the Faro Mine remediation project; (b) what has the government identified as the (i) environmental, (ii) economic, (iii) social, costs and impacts of not undertaking remediation of the Faro Mine site; (c) what is the projected budget of the Faro Mine remediation (i) for the complete remediation, (ii) broken down by year until the project is completed; (d) have the consultants contracted by the government to date recommended any ongoing site maintenance after the projected remediation completion date of 2036-37; (e) what, if any, is the estimated duration of ongoing post-completion site maintenance; (f) what are the estimated annual costs for post-completion maintenance; (g) what were the total expenditures on (i) consultants, (ii) construction and maintenance, (iii) materials, each year from 2020-21 to 2024-25; (h) what are the details of all consulting contracts signed related to the program, including, for each, the (i) date, (ii) vendor, (iii) amount, (iv) description of the goods or services, (v) issues consulted on, (vi) manner in which the contract was awarded (sole-sourced or competitive bid); (i) has the government held any public consultations on the program since January 1, 2020, and, if so, what are the details of each consultation, including (i) the date, (ii) the location, (iii) the form (town hall meeting, online questionnaire, etc.), (iv) who conducted it, (v) the total associated expenditures, broken down by type of expense, (vi) the summary of the feedback received from the consultation; and (j) how many people does the government estimate are currently affected (i) directly, (ii) indirectly, by the mine site?
In the House of Commons on November 18th, 2024. See this statement in context.