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RAPAPORT... Shore Gold Inc. delivered its responses, along with supporting documents, to questions posed by the Canadian Environmental Assessment Agency and Saskatchewan's Ministry of Environment regarding the explorer's revised environmental impact statement on its Star-Orion South diamond project. The original draft impact statement was submitted in December 2010, based upon the Star-Orion's pre-feasibility study, and it generated 802 comments and information requests from federal and provincial agencies and aboriginal groups, according to Shore Gold. The revised impact statement incorporated responses to those questions and it generated an additional 56 federal comments, 82 provincial comments and information requests. Shore Gold previously responded to the provincial comments in January. Fourteen reports, which include 319 pages of information, accompanied the responses to the federal agencies this week. Included in these reports was an updated water management strategy for the Star-Orion diamond project. Shore Gold's senior vice president of exploration, George Read, said, "Shore has now completed the responses to both the Canadian Environmental Assessment Agency and the Ministry for their questions on the revised environmental impact statement. The completion of these responses to comments and information requests is another step towards a fully compliant and permitted project. Simultaneous to the ongoing completion of project approval and permitting, Shore Gold is in pursuit of development capital on a number of fronts." The revised report will be released for public comment by the Ministry once all comments and information requests have been resolved. However, Shore Gold produced an executive summary, which can be found on its website www.shoregold.com.
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