Spanish Mountain Gold concerns

A couple of comments/concerns.  First a concern about the lack of public consultation.  The initial project description summary reports Spanish Mountain Gold (SMG) completed a significant level of public and community engagement during the original entry to the approval process - so guessing that would have been back in 2011 or 2012, PRIOR to the Mount Polley tailings pond breech.  Current public consultation is definitely lacking.  A second concern about requesting the substitution of the federal Impact Assessment process for the BC Environmental Assessment process.  As a result of the Mount Polley breech, I have concerns about BC processes.  A recently published paper from the School for Resource and Environmental Studies at Dalhousie University concluded that BC mining companies have been able to amend their original operating conditions in ways that can have serious effects on water resources. The third concern is the impact on the environment, wildlife, water and water quality, and residents of the area – noise, dust, daily road closures due to blasting, increased traffic and wear and tear on roads, tailing pond storage, and amendments to operating conditions.   On the diagram included in the summary report, it looks like the some of SMG operation will be on the existing community forest (hard to tell as diagrams are small).  If so, what is the impact on our community forest?

The online comment process limits residents who do not have access to internet.  It also has not been well publicised.  The process to submit a comment to the federal Impact Agency Assessment is challenging and may possibly discourage comments.