“possibly never again to return” thanks for your optimism Dick. Those minerals aren’t going to leave on their own.

Good point govsux. Seems the goal is to dig every bit of resource out of the ground in the next 50 years and leaving the kids born today holding the bag. Maybe in 50 years technology will advance and demand/price will increase, so it can be done in such a way that it won’t be harmful and a future generation can have a bit of prosperity.

It’s refreshing to read some forward thinking, and mature, thoughts and perspectives on this subject. The resources we are talking about are “non-renewable” just like the oil we are extracting from the tar sands, and the natural gas we are extracting in north eastern BC.

Some thought has to be given to extracting those resources at a environmentally sustainable, and economically responsible rate!!!

Dick is a drama queen. If your “hopes and dreams” are shattered because this one mine isn’t opening, then I suggest you re-evaluate your lives. There is opportunity all over this province and beyond, think beyond what politicians tell you.

Pipeline on harpers agenda so mine is expendable. In the end the decision was wrong. There is a history here and agreements on parks created and mining allowed seems everyone forgot about that. The Native leaders included as they were part of the process in the early 90’s, what a shame

very disappointing, 550 direct jobs is a lot of jobs to lose, never mind the indirect jobs lost.

If this project had been shut down by the NDP, this post would be full of wailing, and caterwauling, however because it was done by a Conservative Government, the silence is deafening.

There has to be a better way to go forward with these mines, etc, without having to totally screw up the environment.

Perhaps less profits, more concessions by the Government, and by those people who benefit from the mines.

As long as those printing presses in Ottawa keep pumping out government cheques I don’t see a problem. With an upcoming balanced budget we can afford constant oil to keep those presses continuously running. Who needs jobs? The homeless (by choice) in Kelowna don’t care. Why should you?

Palopu! You are so funny but exactly right. But Harbinger is right on the money. Also, I do sympathize with the first nations fraction as they do utilize fish lake for their survival. Maybe this is for the best. Harris is a drama queen so now he can sit down and earn his money as he helps to devise a system to extract resources for his political betterment and rape the province of its only NON-RENEWABLE ores.

Posted by: mythoughts on February 27 2014 11:04 AM
very disappointing, 550 direct jobs is a lot of jobs to lose, never mind the indirect jobs lost.
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You can’t lose something that never was.

Steph99, unfortunately you hit the nail square on the head. The northern gateway is going ahead…. they just have not found a way to break the news to us.

“550 direct jobs is a lot of jobs to lose”

Stay with the program

1. the jobs do not exist, so they cannot be lost

2. we are told we do not have enough skilled people to do many of the jobs such a mine would offer.

3. Therefore they are not our jibs to lose, but some other foreign country’s potential jobs.

4. Likely most of the money spent would not come from this province nor stay in this province on its way through.

5. Again, we may be left with the cleanup.

The cost accounting both before, during and after for such projects is abysmal from what I can tell.

Bang on Gus. I’ve asked many times, why the hurry when we have to bring in foreigners to extract resources that will still be there tomorrow? If we are gainfully employed and the extractors are making money, what’s the rush. Perhaps someone needs to pay more tax and the government needs to lean up the budgets. Try to spend less than you make. I have to do it for my household.

Western 2 do you have proof the first nations use fish lake for their survival? Or is that second hand eco hype?

Agree completely with the general sentiment in the responses.

It’s 2013, not 1977. My hopes and dreams are not impacted by this decision in the least. In fact, my hopes and dreams take a slight hit whenever a project like this is approved.

Like gus said, it makes no sense based on everything else going on around us. Let the land be.

Seamutt
I think it is time for you and other true conservatives to start a real conservative party. It must really sting to have the supposed party of free enterprise be overwhelmed by eco terrorists and hippies!

Let me rephrase what I said earlier …

very disappointing, 550 direct jobs that could be created along with many more indirect jobs. Working people pay taxes and contribute to the tax base. New businesses also contribute to the tax base. I see this as a win, win for all, good for the economy and the people of BC.

Wouldn’t it be nice if we never had to do any mining, or drill for oil and gas, or cut a tree down, and just ‘leave the land be’, as NMG puts it? Unfortunately, the economic engine of the Province and Country relies on these kinds of jobs. That’s the reality.

It seems that some are only for resource extraction if it happens ‘somewhere else’.

Canadians have to grow up before they can compete on the world stage. We have had it too good, for too long.

We wont support local industry, and will drive all the way to Wal Mart to save 75 Cents on a dozen eggs, or pick up some Idaho Potatoes.

If you cannot part with a few extra dollars to support local industry, then how do you expect to build any industry??

There was a time when Prince George/South Ft George, had a slaughter house, an ice cream and beverage plant, many many farms with hay, root vegetables, etc; plus cattle being shipped from the surrounding area to PG for Slaughter, and also shipped to Alberta. We had a Dairyland in Terrace, Prince George, and Williams Lake.

We had distribution warehouses, like Kelly Douglas, Slade and Stewart, Malkins, etc; We supplied approx. 400 small mills between Tete Jaune, Smithers, Williams Lake, and points North.

All this industry was killed off by Corporate Greed. There was never enough profit, and of course even to-day that is the underlying argument. Profit.

Problem is we have killed the goose that laid the Golden Egg.

So what do we have. Well I will tell you.

We recently has a fellow from China, buy up a few farms in the Vanderhoof BC area, and installed a machine to compress hay bales. So he grows his own hay, buys some privately , trucks it to Prince George, loads it in containers, ships it to Prince Rupert, and loads it on a slow boat to China. This product is then used in the dairy industry in China. The better the hay, the better the milk.

In the meantime the great Canadian business types, sat on their hands and watched this industrious Chinese fellow, pull this business together.

If this type of business gets to be very big in volume guess what happens. The price of hay rises for Canadian dairies, and then the price of milk rises.

Why should we care, we can always get cheap milk from Wal Mart.

Palopu

You might want to check out HSH, a new deli/grocery/bakery store that just opened
on 1185 3rd Avenue, dedicated to providing local and organic produce, meats, and other goodies from northern BC when possible.

Palopu, I don’t always agree but just had to sign in say Bravo! Nailed it

Palopu, I don’t always agree with yout but had to sign in to say Bravo! Nailed it

Palopu can wax poetic on days gone by, but the fact of the matter is that Walmart and the big box stores didn’t kill the local mom and pops. Consumers did.

http://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/brooklyn/study-proves-walmart-super-stores-kill-local-small-businesses-article-1.140129

Thanks for proving my point, People#1. I love when my research is done for me!

Walmart is just a building. It takes consumers to make it successful.