Participant Funding for NexGen’s Rook 1 Project

Status

This participant funding opportunity is open from March 10 to May 9, 2025.

Participant funding notice

The Canadian Nuclear Safety Commission (CNSC) is offering participant funding to assist Indigenous Nations and communities, members of the public, and interested parties to review the environmental assessment (EA) and licence application for NexGen’s Rook 1 Project and in participating in a future Commission hearing process. This is the second opportunity to apply for participant funding for the Rook 1 Project. The Commission has not yet announced the date or location, for a hearing on NexGen’s application. For more information on the earlier Rook 1 funding opportunity, please see the previous participant funding notice.

NexGen is proposing to develop an underground uranium mine on the Patterson Lake peninsula located in the southwestern portion of the Athabasca Basin in northern Saskatchewan, approximately 155 km north of the town of La Loche, Saskatchewan. The proposed Rook l mine would produce up to 14 million kg of uranium concentrate (U₃O₈) annually for 24 years. Under the Nuclear Safety and Control Act, NexGen's proposal requires CNSC authorization, which must include an EA decision under the Canadian Environmental Assessment Act, 2012, affirming that the proposed activities will not cause significant adverse environmental effects, followed by a licensing decision.

For further details on NexGen’s proposal and the EA process, please see the Canadian Impact Assessment Registry. The dates and location of associated CNSC public Commission hearings, as well as the ways in which the public will be invited to participate in them, will be announced at a later date in a notice of public hearing.

Up to $250,000 in participant funding will be disbursed among all successful applicants. Funding will be awarded for:

• the review of documentation, including the EA report and CNSC staff’s and NexGen’s Commission member documents
• participation in associated and yet-to-be-announced public Commission hearings where applicants will be given the opportunity to provide new, distinctive and valuable information through informed and topic-specific interventions to the Commission

Applying for funding

The deadline to submit a participant funding application is May 9, 2025.

A funding review committee will consider all applications for funding and make recommendations on the allocation of funds.

To apply, please submit a participant funding application form. Certain terms and conditions apply. You can submit the form by:

• Email: pfp@cnsc-ccsn.gc.ca
• Mail: Canadian Nuclear Safety Commission
  c/o Participant Funding Program Administrator
  280 Slater St
  PO Box 1046 Stn B
  Ottawa ON  K1P 5S9

For information on how to participate, consult the Participate in a public Commission hearing and Participant Funding Program sections of the CNSC website.

Eligibility and funding criteria

For more information on participant funding and how it works, including details on eligibility and funding criteria, please read the PFP guide.

Contact information

Participant Funding Program Administrator
pfp@cnsc-ccsn.gc.ca