Fisheries committee  Not mining proponents, no.

Fisheries committee  Do you want to answer that? Go ahead.

Fisheries committee  It's only about a half dozen. It's not a lot, but for these projects, it's.... In particular, in the one example we gave you, they have redone it already, but they'd have to redo it a second time.

Fisheries committee  Yes, these are major mines. In fact, this particular project is in your province.

Fisheries committee  The cost for this one is probably in the low millions. The further delay before the project can actually get up and running also has an impact.

Fisheries committee  Thank you, members of the committee. On behalf of the Mining Association of Canada, Justyna and I thank you for this opportunity to appear before you today. As some of you may know, when I spoke to your colleagues on the environment committee about Bill C-69, I said I was mad, m

Environment committee  The mining sector invented the term “social licence” and a lot of people are angry at us for that, but we recognized, some 20 years ago, that our future required us to make sure that we had community support. As a result, we put in place a program called “Towards Sustainable Mini

Environment committee  That's a complex question. If you look at our industry trajectory, we're increasingly investing in northern Canada, which is often off-grid. This makes it more expensive, because we also often have to build the infrastructure necessary to support those investments. It also ofte

Environment committee  We have seen investment projections. Now, you have to put this in a certain amount of context. We are coming out of a down cycle, so some of it is explained by that and certain plans were shelved, but we are looking at about a 60% reduction in proposed projects and we have seen e

Environment committee  Yes. I could stop there. You'd be hard-pressed to find an improved mining project over the last 10 years that didn't come with agreements with local indigenous communities. You're right. For our projects today to be successful for a multiplicity of reasons, not just social licen

Environment committee  Go ahead.

Environment committee  The obvious one was cumulative effects, and I'll just give you an example. There is a mining project in northeast B.C. that reached a conclusion of significant adverse cumulative effects. As a result of that, a decision by cabinet was required. There was an 18-month delay before

Environment committee  You could look at the results of diamond mining activity in the Northwest Territories and look at the acceleration of post-secondary education levels among indigenous people in the north. It's completely tied to the opening of that first mine and ever since. There is a transforma

Environment committee  I'll spare the committee from having me breaking into song and singing Cher's If I Could Turn Back Time, but there's this collective view within our membership that the best years of environmental assessment were from 2010 to 2012. If the previous government had stopped in 2010,

Environment committee  Here are a few facts for your information. Canada's percentage of mineral exploration spending has been falling for the last half a dozen years. Australia has taken up a good chunk of that. It's also going to Latin America. Last year Australia had record levels of gold production