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STORY about Environment posted on November 2, 2010 by ivujica

Prentice kills Taseko's Prosperity mine

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Prentice kills Taseko's Prosperity mine

By LAURA PAYTON, Parliamentary Bureau

Last Updated: November 2, 2010 7:04pm

OTTAWA – The federal government has killed a plan for an open-pit mine in Fish Lake, B.C.

 “The project as it was proposed would result in the destruction of Fish Lake and the destruction as well of a complex and highly productive ecosystem that included ... dozens of connecting streams, wetlands and aquatic life,” Environment Minister Jim Prentice said Tuesday.

“There was a significant risk that this habitat could not be successfully reproduced through manmade substitutes.”

 http://www.torontosun.com/news/canada/2010/11/02/15925231.html

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Comments

Tue, 11/02/2010 - 23:41 — dawn

bittersweet

thanks for posting this, but it is important to point out that this is a bittersweet decision, because they approved the Mt. Milligan mine in northern BC, more info here:

http://bit.ly/bxx4D1

http://www.dominionpaper.ca/articles/3676

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