Imperial Oil asks review board to scrap order for environmental assessment in Norman Wells, N.W.T.
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Imperial Oil is asking the Mackenzie Valley Review Board to overturn a ruling that triggers an environmental assessment of the company's entire operation in Norman Wells, N.W.T.
In a letter to the board on Oct. 9 and first reported by Cabin Radio, the company argues the environmental assessment subjects the Norman Wells facility to "significant immediate-term uncertainty and risk."
That's because, it said, the assessment has the "potential" to delay regulatory decisions coming from the Sahtu Land and Water Board and the Canadian Energy Regulator that it needs to keep operating in 2025 – thereby risking a "shut-in" of the facility, meaning a halt in production, in less than three months.
The Sahtu Secretariat Incorporated ordered two environmental assessments last month related to Imperial Oil's operation in Norman Wells. The review board said in a letter on Oct. 4 that it would address both issues in a single environmental assessment of Imperial's entire operation in the Sahtu community.
Among its arguments, the company says that environmental assessments are meant for new operations and points out that it has been operating in Norman Wells for more than a century. It also said it wasn't given the opportunity to be heard before the assessment began.
The company says that a shut-in during the winter raises the risk to workers and the environment and creates logistical challenges.
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