Prodigy Gold Inc. - Environmental Compliance Approval (air)

Instrument type: Environmental Compliance Approval (air)

ERO number
019-0811
Ministry reference number
9765-BH7RXF
Notice type
Instrument
Act
Environmental Protection Act, R.S.O. 1990
Posted by
Ministry of the Environment, Conservation and Parks
Notice stage
Decision
Decision posted
Comment period
November 4, 2019 - December 19, 2019 (45 days) Closed
Last updated

This consultation was open from:
November 4, 2019
to December 19, 2019

Decision summary

On December 3, 2020, we issued an Environmental Compliance Approval (ECA) with Limited Operational Flexibility No. 5420-BKFMGV to Prodigy Gold Inc.'s facility involved in open-pit gold mining and milling, located in Finan Township, approx. 40 km northeast of Wawa, Ontario. This ECA replaces all current ECAs for Air & Noise at this facility

Location details

Site address

3 Dree Road
P.O. Box 209
Township of Dubreuilville, ON
P0S 1B0
Canada

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Proponent(s)

Prodigy Gold Inc.
3 Dree Road
P.O. Box 209
Dubreuilville, ON
P0S 1B0
Canada

Decision details

On December 3, 2020, we issued an Environmental Compliance Approval with Limited Operational Flexibility No. 5420-BKFMGV to Prodigy Gold Inc.'s facility involved in open-pit gold mining and milling, located in Finan Township, approximately 40 km northeast of Wawa, Ontario, as part of the Magino Gold Project.

This Environmental Compliance Approval replaces all current environmental compliance approvals for Air & Noise at this facility and includes the addition of new, or historically unapproved, sources for all emissions from this facility, including:

  • open pit mining
  • ore crushing and screening
  • material handling and transport
  • stockpiling
  • tailings management
  • ore processing and refining, and
  • other ancillary and support processes and activities

This Environmental Compliance Approval with Limited Operational Flexibility, permits modifications to the facility subject to limits on operational flexibility that include a production limit for the facility which is specified on this Environmental Compliance Approval.The limited operational flexibility conditions have an expiry date. The company is required to submit an application for amendment at that time to renew these conditions.

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Client Services and Permissions Branch
Address

135 St Clair Ave West
1st Floor
Toronto, ON
M4V 1P5
Canada

Office phone number
Sault Ste. Marie Area Office
Address

70 Foster Drive
Suite 110
Sault Ste. Marie, ON
P6A6V4
Canada

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How to Appeal

This instrument decision can be appealed. You have 15 days from December 7, 2020 to begin the appeal process.

Carefully review the information below to learn more about the appeal process.

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Appeal process for decisions published before June 1, 2021

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:

  1. prepare your application
  2. provide notice to the minister
  3. 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:

  1. 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
  2. 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
  3. 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:

  1. 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?
  2. 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)

Issuing authority
Rudolf Wan
Manager - Air Approvals

Environmental Permissions Branch
135 St Clair Ave W
Toronto, ON
M4V 1P5
Canada

416-992-4379

Proponent(s)

Prodigy Gold Inc.
3 Dree Road
P.O. Box 209
Dubreuilville, ON
P0S 1B0
Canada


Appellate body

Environmental Review Tribunal
Attention: The Secretary
655 Bay Street
Floor 15
Toronto, Ontario
M5G 1E5
(416) 212-6349
(866) 448-2248
OLT.Registrar@ontario.ca

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Include the following:

ERO number
019-0811
Ministry reference number
9765-BH7RXF

This is not legal advice. Please refer to the Environmental Bill of Rights for exact legal requirements. Consult a lawyer if you need help with the appeal process.

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Original proposal

ERO number
019-0811
Ministry reference number
9765-BH7RXF
Notice type
Instrument
Act
Environmental Protection Act, R.S.O. 1990
Posted by
Ministry of the Environment, Conservation and Parks
Proposal posted

Comment period

November 4, 2019 - December 19, 2019 (45 days)

Proposal details

This proposal is for an Environmental Compliance Approval with Limited Operational Flexibility (Air), which replaces all the current Environmental Compliance Approvals for Air at this facility, and includes the addition of new, or historically unapproved, sources for all emissions from Prodigy Gold Inc., located in Finan Township, approximately 40 km northeast of Wawa, Ontario.

The project involves the construction, operation, decommissioning and abandonment of an open-pit gold mine and mill, as part of the Magino Gold Project.

The application includes all sources at the facility, including: open pit extraction emissions including blasting and material handling (bulldozing and drop operations into haul trucks and from trucks to stockpiles); fugitive dust emissions from material handling activities in the pit and on surface, including ore handling in the crushing area and mine rock handling in the tailings management facility and mine rock management facility; emissions from ore processing and refining; emissions from dust collectors from ore handling and crushing processes; semi-autogenous grinding; mill grinding and refinery processes; emissions from the tailings management facility; emissions from comfort heating; and fugitive dust emissions from haul routes (unpaved roads) and grading.

Emissions to the air from this facility include:

  • copper
  • lead
  • ammonia
  • TSP
  • hydrogen cyanide
  • nickel
  • uranium

The Environmental Compliance Approval with Limited Operational Flexibility (Air), when issued, permits modifications to the facility subject to limits on operational flexibility that include a production limit for the facility to be specified on the Environmental Compliance Approval with Limited Operational Flexibility (Air). The limited operational flexibility conditions have an expiry date. The company will be required to make an application for amendment at that time to renew these conditions.

Supporting materials

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Some supporting materials may not be available online. If this is the case, you can request to view the materials in person.

Get in touch with the office listed below to find out if materials are available.

Client Services and Permissions Branch
Address

135 St Clair Ave West
1st Floor
Toronto, ON
M4V 1P5
Canada

Office phone number
Sault Ste. Marie Area Office
Address

70 Foster Drive
Suite 110
Sault Ste. Marie, ON
P6A6V4
Canada

Office phone number

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This consultation was open from November 4, 2019
to December 19, 2019

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