Chapter 2 - Individuals Responsible

Authorship and affilitations for Chapter 5, Alternatives Assessment, have not been provided. The "Do Nothing" alternative to the project should consider lack of environmental emissions: currently, Project-related adverse environmental effects are considered to be scoped to "wildlife habitat disturbance/clearing, alterations to fish habitat, or discharges to waterbodies" (pg 5.2). Recommend that Section 5.1 be expanded to acknowledge Project-related adverse environmental effects to climate change, acoustic environment, and atmospheric environment, at very least. 

Impacts are noted due to diesel emissions from truck use (Ch. 12 and 20). These chapters acknowledge potential mitigation via electric haul trucks and/or autonomous vehicles. Fleet costs are anticipated to be significant, and it is not expected that Canada Nickel could make an agile switch from diesel to electric vehicles (for example) during the mining phase of the project lifecycle -- at least, not without significant planning. So, recommend that haul truck alternatives be reflected at the Alternative Means level of the project and be incorporated in Chapter 5. Additionally, Ch. 12 and 20 acknowledge that mitigation could come from an Idiling Policy. What would this policy entail? Cannot find record of it in the EIS. Idiling policy should be available for comment during the IA within an integrated Environmental Management Plan. 

Finally -- note to technical editors: some landscape-oriented pages are misaligned. e.g. see tables in Appendix N -- this makes it difficult for reviewers.