The charter doesn’t deal with appeals like this, so maybe check...

The charter doesn’t deal with appeals like this, so maybe check yourself before you start ranting.

The appeal would be brought under the Mineral and Petroleum Resources Development Act. See section 96 in particular.

The Act itself doesn’t specify the timeframe requirements. I’ll pull out the regulations later and have a look.

Whatever the timeframe requirements are - it would be exceedingly rare for it to be an absolute barrier to an appeal. It’s reasonably routine to get an extension of time to file an appeal. You don’t have to “change the law” to give an extension. It’s not really a big issue.

The company has given basically no information so it’s hard / impossible to judge the merits of the appeal from afar. But you would be extremely foolish to assume it’s a sure-thing to be dismissed.