The province approved the project but federal approval was denied in a 2010 decision that Jim Prentice, then the Conservative environment minister, called "scathing" due to its assessment of the company's plan to turn a trout-rich lake into a tailings pond.
"Once a decision is taken that the province has a regulatory system comparable to the national system, that it has the capacity to do a comprehensive scientific, objective environmental review, then the authority for doing the review is transferred to the provinces and we don't second-guess their conclusion," Oliver replied.
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