Feedback on Project No. 80140 Alamos Gold Inc. Lynn Lake Gold Project (MacLellan Site)

Feedback on Project No. 80140 Alamos Gold Inc.-Lynn Lake Gold Project (MacLellan Site)

We are leaseholders at Burge Lake whose property was destroyed by Wildfire NO002, which originated near Alamos Gold’s MacLellan mine site. The fire destroyed homes, cabins, and thousands of hectares of land and wildlife habitat. The loss of these places, and the years of future enjoyment they held, is both immeasurable and devastating.

As of October 24, 2025, Manitoba Natural Resources and Indigenous Futures have advised that records pertaining to the official fire-investigation report for Wildfire NO002 “do not exist as the investigation is not yet complete.” However, reports in the Winnipeg Free Press (https://www.winnipegfreepress.com/breakingnews/2025/09/15/province-accuses-mining-company-of-negligence-in-lynn-lake-wildfire) and CBC (https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/manitoba/alamos-fire-lynn-lake-1.7630488) cite affidavits filed by the Province of Manitoba alleging that the fire began from burn piles on the MacLellan mine site that were started and not properly extinguished by Alamos Gold. The fire burned more than 85,000 hectares, reached within five kilometres of the town of Lynn Lake, forced evacuations, destroyed residential and seasonal properties, cost taxpayers millions of dollars in firefighting and evacuation-related expenses, and devastated vast areas of surrounding land and wildlife habitat.

Although third-quarter results have not yet been released (expected October 30, 2025), Alamos Gold’s second-quarter financial report announced net earnings of $159.4 million and revenues of approximately $438 million. These results demonstrate that Alamos Gold is financially well-positioned to contribute to the remediation and compensation efforts that Manitobans deserve and that their 2023 project assessment approval commits them to. Despite this, there has been no accountability, plan forward, or assistance from Alamos Gold. The company continues to dispute its role in causing the fire and has offered no help to clean up burned sites, no compensation to community members for the loss of their property, homes, and cottages, no repayment of firefighting costs, and no meaningful effort to address the massive environmental destruction to wildlife, wildlife habitat, and traditional lands.

All of this raises serious questions about Alamos Gold’s current and future ability, or willingness, to adhere to the legally binding conditions already outlined in the 2023 project assessment, which require the prevention of environmental damage, the protection of wildlife, the safeguarding of traditional land use, and the effective implementation of accident-prevention and emergency-response measures. The wildfire exposed a serious disconnect between what Alamos Gold promises on paper and what occurs in practice and, more troublingly, highlights how the consequences of Alamos Gold’s failures are borne entirely by others, while the company accepts no responsibility, no cost, and no obligation to repair the damage it has caused.

I therefore respectfully request that the Impact Assessment Agency of Canada treat this event as evidence of non-compliance and withhold approval of Project No. 80140 and any further amendments until the following accountability and remediation measures are in place:

• Alamos Gold acknowledges its role in the May 2025 wildfire and develops a comprehensive remediation and compensation plan covering cleanup, ecological restoration (soil, shoreline, and tree loss), and rebuilding assistance and restitution.

• Alamos Gold publishes a revised fire-risk management and emergency-response plan subject to community oversight, provincial oversight and independent audit.
• Alamos Gold establishes a third-party monitor to verify ongoing compliance with all federal conditions and provincial requirements.
• Alamos Gold reports publicly every quarter on fire-risk mitigation and site-rehabilitation progress and responds publicly to questions from residents, leaseholders and municipal representatives.

Manitobans deserve assurance that they will never again have to endure a disaster such as this. Therefore, Alamos Gold should not be permitted to expand or amend its project until it has demonstrated, through concrete action, that it can, and is willing to, fulfill the obligations it has committed to and is already required to meet.

Sincerely,

Vern Kebernik, Sharon Kebernik and Jeannine Kebernik