"Beaver — a councillor for the Municipality of the District of St. Mary’s, which contains parts of the proposed project — said he favours the federal process because he thinks Ottawa will do 'a much better job, a more thorough job on assessing the risks' than the province would." Gold mine megaproject in Nova Scotia to undergo federal impact assessment https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/nova-scotia/gold-mine-megaproject-in-nova-scotia-to-undergo-federal-impact-assessment-9.7405996