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BWR Exploration Inc. Signs Contribution Agreement with Manitoba Mineral Development Fund, Completes “Camp Cleanup” at Little Stull Lake
Highlights: Manitoba Mineral Development Fund (“MMDF”) approves $300,000 allocation to BWR, arranges first $100,000 instalment, with other instalments to follow
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[{"type":"text","content":" Highlights: Manitoba Mineral Development Fund (“MMDF”) approves $300,000 allocation to BWR, arranges first $100,000 instalment, with other instalments to follow as the project progresses through 2022/23. Manto Sipi Cree Nation (“MSCN”) Chief and Council ratify Band Council Resolution consenting to a baseline clean-up program. BWR completed the clean-up work alongside community members at Little Stull Lake, NE Manitoba. TORONTO, Nov. 17, 2021 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- BWR Exploration Inc. (the “Company” or “BWR”) (TSXV: BWR) is pleased to announce the Company has recently signed a “Contribution Agreement” dated October 25, 2021 with MMDF Corporation and acknowledges receipt of the first $100,000 tranche of the total $300,000 grant from the Manitoba Mineral Development Fund (“MMDF”), details of which were previously announced on January 7, 2021. The first tranche has facilitated a baseline clean-up program at BWR’s Little Stull Lake camp, located in Northeastern Manitoba. Early in 2021, “in-person meetings” were not permitted under Provincial COVID-19 guidelines. Consequently, in March 2021, BWR met virtually with MSCN Chief and Council, along with a few Elders as well as MSCN legal counsel, to plan for upcoming community consultation. This virtual meeting was an information session only, as insufficient members of the community were able to participate. In October, after COVID-19 precautions for Manitoba relaxed, an in-person meeting was held between BWR and MSCN Chief and Council. MSCN Chief and Council requested that BWR prioritize the clean-up and provided authorization by way of a Band Council Resolution (“BCR”) dated October 20, 2021 to commence a clean-up program. BWR’s proposal to Chief and Council included hiring 3 community members for a pre-winter clean-up program to ensure continued safe use and storage of fuel already at the camp from previous operators and safe occupancy of the camp. The program also entailed the repurposing of several unused full fuel drums left by previous operators, thus alleviating the environmental concern expressed by the Community during earlier information session(s). Accordingly, the clean-up program also included a campsite-wide soil sampling program, testing for hydro-carbons to determine the nature and scope of any fuel spillage (if any) in the Little Stull Lake camp area by previous operators...