Sisson mine EIA is the focus of a public meeting in Stanley
Public meeting will discuss the open-pit tungsten and molybdenum mine's environmental impact assessment report
The company behind the Sisson mine project will be holding a public meeting to discuss the environmental impact assessment of its proposed open pit mine on Monday night.
The meeting is being held in Stanley.
Vancouver-based Northcliff Resources submitted the environmental impact assessment report in 2013 as part of the provincial government's environmental review.
The New Brunswick government accepted the report earlier this year.
The next phase of the EIA process is to have a public consultation phase.
The mine is expected to create roughly 500 jobs during construction of the mine and 300 jobs during its operation.
The open-pit tungsten and molybdenum mine would be built on 12.5 square kilometres of Crown land near Napadogan, north of Fredericton, which the St. Mary's First Nation says is in Maliseet territory.
Energy and Mines Minister Donald Arseneault told CBC News in March the provincial government would consider giving St. Mary's First Nation a piece of land if the $579-million Sisson mine project is approved.
St. Mary's has hired a lawyer from the Victoria-based firm Woodward & Company, who was also one of the lawyers that represented the Tsilhqot'in First Nation in a landmark Supreme Court case last June.
The historic land ruling granted aboriginal title to the Tsilhqot'in on more than 1,700 square kilometres of land in British Columbia.
The decision puts a greater onus on governments to justify economic development on aboriginal land wherever there are outstanding land claims, such as New Brunswick.