Compliance Energy Corporation announced that Itochu Corporation of Japan has completed its withdrawal from the Comox Joint Venture as of June 12, 2015 and LG International Corporation of Korea have informed the company of their planned withdrawal from the project. The company purchased the Vancouver Islands coal rights in 2005 and established a joint venture with Itochu and LGi. The economic feasibility study was completed in 2009 for the development of a modest underground coal project projected to be in operation within three years.

The Environmental Assessment process was entered into in 2009 and after six years and an excess of $20 million expenditures, the company's efforts have been thwarted. Compliance Energy Corporation is evaluating its' options of how to proceed with its' freehold coal rights.