The Raven Underground Coal Project is the subject of two environmental assessments (EA).

1. Provincial Environmental Assessment

- Conducted by the BC Environmental Assessment Office
- Electronic Project Information Centre (e-PIC) home page for the Raven project
- Project Assessment Manager: Rachel Shaw
  1st Floor 836 Yates St
  PO Box 9426 Stn Prov Govt
  Victoria BC V8W 9V1
  Telephone: 250-952-6501
  Fax: 250-356-6448
  Email: Rachel.Shaw@gov.bc.ca

Status of the Provincial EA:

Provincial EAs are in three stages: 1. Pre-Application, 2. Application, and 3. Ministers Review. The Raven project is in the first, or Pre-Application stage. The proponent, Compliance Coal Corp., and the EAO have been developing a document referred to as an Application Information Requirements (AIR)/Environmental Impact Statement (EIS). The AIR/EIS is essentially a list of issues the company will have to address in its formal Application and Environmental Impact Statement, which comes later.

Status of the Provincial/Harmonized EA:

In early 2012, the draft AIR/EIS will be finalized, and published. The proponent will then complete its formal application and environmental impact statement and submit it to the EAO.

Once a draft AIR/EIS has been accepted by the EAO, it will be posted for public comment. The public comment period will be 40 days, and will be accompanied by public open houses.

29Nov2011: end of short comment period on the tracking table of public comments.

27Jun2011: end of public comment period on the draft AIR.

2. Federal Environmental Assessment

- Conducted by the Canadian Environmental Assessment Agency
- CEA Registry page and CEAR reference number: 10-03-55529
- Project Manager: Andrew Rollo
   805 - 1550 Alberni Street
   Vancouver  BC  V6G 1A5
   Telephone: 604-666-2431
   Fax: 604-666-3493
   Email: Andrew.Rollo@ceaa-acee.gc.ca

Status of the Federal EA:

24Mar2011: $84,160 has been allocated from the Participant Funding Envelope. News release.

17Nov2010: $432,693 has been allocated in the Aboriginal Participant Funding Envelope. News release. 

20Sep2010: Public comment period on federal EA is closed.  In terms of public participation, the federal EA becomes opaque until the Comprehensive Study Report is complete, at which time the report will be posted and a second public comment period will be opened up.

19Jul2010: Two documents were posted to the project Registry:

- An updated Notice of Commencement which advised that CEAA has become the Responsible Authority for a level of review referred to as a Comprehensive Study.

- A Public Notice was issued advising that a 30 day comment period has been opened  effective immediately, in which the public is invited to comment on both the project and the proposed Comprehensive Study review process. A "backgrounder" document was issued August 6, here describing both the project and the process.