Cette consultation a eu lieu :
du 6 juillet 2022
au 5 août 2022
Résumé de la décision
This decision is to amend the Permit to Take Water No. 8161-C8KPLR for De Beers Canada Inc. Water will be taken from one pond for dust suppression and put flooding purposes at the Victor Diamond Mine, located in the District of Kenora, Ontario.
Détails de l'emplacement
Adresse du site
District of Kenora,
ON
Canada
Détails de l'emplacement du site
Victor Mine 90 kilometres west of Attawapiskat
Carte de l'emplacement du site
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De Beers Canada Inc.
1601 Airport Road Northeast
Unit 300
Calgary,
AB
T2E 6Z8
Canada
Détails de la décision
This decision is to amend the Permit to Take Water No. 8161-C8KPLR for De Beers Canada Inc. Water will be taken from one pond for use in dust suppression on roadways at the site, to expediate the filling of the open pit, and to manage water levels within the Polishing Pond at the Victor Diamond Mine, located in the District of Kenora, Ontario. Permit to Take Water Number 5120-CKZRDH was issued on November 9, 2022 for a period of eight years.
Permits to Take Water include conditions that require the permit holder to: collect and record the daily amount of water taken, comply with the terms and conditions in the permit, immediately report complaints or interference to the ministry, report water takings each year to the ministry. The details of the water taking are as follows:
Source of water: Polishing Pond
- purpose of taking: dust suppression and pit flooding
- maximum rate per minute (litres): 10,416
- maximum number of hours of taking per day: 24
- maximum volume per day (litres): 15,000,000
- maximum number of days of taking per year: 365
- period of taking: January 1 to December 31 for 8 years
Issued Permits to Take Water can be viewed and downloaded at Access Ontario, by searching the approval number, 5120-CKZRDH, in the search field located at the top of the map, see “I want to…Search by Approval Number”, here: Access Environment
Access Environment displays the following information:
- business name
- facility address and location on an interactive map
- type of approval or registration from the ministry (view a PDF copy)
- date of issue
- status of the approval (approved, amended, revoked and/or replaced)
- status of the registration (registered, suspended, removed)
Effets de la consultation
Comments relevant to the water taking proposal were considered as part of the review of the application. Both comments received were from Attawapiskat First Nation. Only one comment had specific concerns relevant to this water taking proposal. The one comment identified three main concerns:
- The first concern was regarding the substantive increase in water taking from the polishing pond.
Response: During the application, De Beers amended their application lowering their request to 15,000 m3/day to allow more flexibility in managing water within the polishing pond spring melt. This proposed increased taking to 15,000 m3/day technically will result in no change to the current volume of water being removed form the pond. - The second concern was around potential impacts on groundwater drawdown and on surrounding muskeg.
Response: Since the proposed amendment was an increase to the current permitted taking, the Ministry requested a water balance modelling assessment to demonstrate the pond can sustain the increased volume. Also, to address this concern, condition 3.4 was added to the current permit to ensure the drawdown in the pond does not affect water levels in the nearby muskeg. - The final concern raised was with respect to the potential for contaminant transport to aquatic habitat from the Pit Lake.
Response: De Beers had previously addressed these concerns via an updated Pit Lake Model that addressed the potential changes to groundwater quality from the Pit Lake. The Ministry reviewed the provided information and found there to be no anticipated potential impact to nearby surface water quality from the increased taking from the Polishing Pond to the Pit Lake.
Documents justificatifs
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How to Appeal
Cet avis de décision peut être porté en appel. Vous avez jusqu’à 15 jours à partir du 14 novembre 2022 pour entamer le processus d’appel.
Veuillez lire les renseignements suivants attentivement pour en savoir plus sur le processus d’appel.
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Start the process to appeal
If you’re an Ontario resident, you can start the process to appeal this instrument decision.
First, you’ll need to seek leave (i.e. get permission) from the relevant appellate body to appeal the decision.
If the appellate body grants leave, the appeal itself will follow.
Seek leave to appeal
To seek leave to appeal, you need to do these three things:
- prepare your application
- provide notice to the minister
- mail your application to three parties
1. Prepare your application
You’ll need to prepare an application. You may wish to include the following things in your application:
- A document that includes:
- your name, phone number, fax number (if any), and/or email address
- the ERO number and ministry reference number (located on this page)
- a statement about whether you are a resident in Ontario
- your interest in the decision, and any facts you want taken into account in deciding whether you have an interest in the decision
- the parts of the instrument that you’re challenging
- whether the decision could result in significant harm to the environment
- the reason(s) why you believe that no reasonable person – having regard to the relevant law and to any government policies developed to guide decisions of that kind – could have made the decision
- the grounds (facts) you’ll be using to appeal
- the outcome you’d like to see
- A copy of the instrument (approval, permit, order) that you you are seeking leave to appeal. You’ll find this in the decision notice on the Environmental Registry
- Copies of all supporting documents, facts and evidence that you’ll be using to appeal
What is considered
The appeal body will consider the following two questions in deciding whether to grant you leave to appeal:
- is there is good reason to believe that no reasonable person, with respect to the relevant law and to any government policies developed to guide decisions of that kind, could have made the decision?
- could the decision you wish to appeal result in significant harm to the environment?
2. Provide your notice
You’ll need to provide notice to the Minister of the Environment, Conservation and Parks that you’re seeking leave to appeal.
In your notice, please include a brief description of the:
- decision that you wish to appeal
- grounds for granting leave to appeal
You can provide notice by email at minister.mecp@ontario.ca or by mail at:
College Park 5th Floor, 777 Bay St.
Toronto, ON
M7A 2J3
3. Mail your application
You’ll need to mail your application that you prepared in step #1 to each of these three parties:
- appellate body
- issuing authority (the ministry official who issued the instrument)
- proponent (the company or individual to whom the instrument was issued)
De Beers Canada Inc.
1601 Airport Road Northeast
Unit 300
Calgary,
AB
T2E 6Z8
Canada
Registrar, Ontario Land Tribunal
655 Bay Street, Suite 1500
Toronto, Ontario
M5G 1E5
(416) 212-6349
(866) 448-2248
OLT.Registrar@ontario.ca
Inclure les éléments suivants:
Il ne s'agit pas d'un avis juridique. Veuillez vous reporter à la Charte des droits environnementaux de 1993 pour connaître les exigences exactes prévues par la loi. Consultez un avocat si vous avez besoin d'aide avec le processus d'appel.
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Contact
Client Services and Permissions Branch
135 St Clair Ave West
1st Floor
Toronto,
ON
M4V 1P5
Canada
Proposition initiale
Détails de la proposition
This proposal is to amend the Permit to Take Water No. 8161-C8KPLR for De Beers Canada Inc. Water will be taken from one pond for use in dust suppression on roadways at the site, to expediate the filling of the open pit, and to manage water levels within the Polishing Pond at the Victor Diamond Mine, located in the District of Kenora, Ontario.
The details of the water taking are as follows:
Source of water: Polishing Pond
- purpose of taking: dust suppression and pit flooding
- maximum rate per minute (litres): 17,400
- maximum number of hours of taking per day: 24
- maximum volume per day (litres): 25,000,000
- maximum number of days of taking per year: 365
- period of taking: January 1 to December 31 for 10 years
Documents justificatifs
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Certains documents justificatifs peuvent ne pas être accessibles en ligne. Si tel est le cas, vous pouvez demander à consulter les documents en personne.
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135 St. Clair Avenue West
Floor 1
Toronto,
ON
M4V 1P5
Canada
Commentaire
La consultation est maintenant terminée.
Cette consultation a eu lieu 6 juillet 2022
au 5 août 2022
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1st Floor
Toronto,
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M4V 1P5
Canada
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