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[email protected] Symbols: bkm-tsx venture / pbmlf-OTC Website: pacificbooker.com October 15, 2020 Katherine St James Project Assessment Director Environmental Assessment Office By email:
[email protected] Dear Katherine This letter is in response to your letter dated September 28, 2020. Thank you for the clarification of the EAO’s view on whether the proposed project is in the headwaters of the Skeena River. You have stated in your letter: “As described in the Morrison Environmental Assessment Report (2012) and the Reasons for Decision (2012), the EAO understands the project to be located in the headwaters of the Skeena River”. You have also said that the EAO would like to “put this issue to rest”. PBM would also like to put this issue to rest. Unfortunately, that would mean that PBM accepts the statement that the Morrison Project is located at the headwaters of the Skeena River. That is not accurate and therefore, PBM cannot “put this issue to rest”. You have stated that the source for the Skeena River Headwaters statement is the Assessment Report and Reasons for Decision. We ask that you provide the scientific source for that “statement of fact” used in those reports. Added to the descriptions of the project location in those documents are variations of the statement “at the headwaters of the Skeena River watershed”. Can you explain why there is this discrepancy between the Certified Project Description (called Schedule A in the 2012 decision materials) and the Environmental Assessment Report (2012)? Please, do not say that it is not a material fact when it is the first reason stated for the refusal of our EAC in 2012.