Strateco Resources Inc. announced that the Federal Minister of the Environment authorized the Matoush uranium exploration project., located in the Otish Mountains of northern Quebec, about 275 km from Chibougamau and 210 km from the Cree Nation of Mistissini. Strateco filed a preliminary description of the Matoush project in July 2008 with the CNSC, the Federal Review Panel South and the provincial review panel, followed by its licence application for the underground exploration program in November 2008. After receiving the joint directive from the regulatory authorities in February 2009, Strateco carried out supplementary studies on a number of environmental and social components of the project. Strateco was then able to file the EIS for the Matoush project underground exploration program with the FRP-s and COMEX, and an official licence application for Matoush underground exploration program with the CNSC, in November 2009.