Taseko Files for Second Judicial Review
Williams Lake, B.C. .- Taseko Mines is not giving up.
The company has applied for a second judicial review, this one is focused on the federal government’s recent decision to deny the application for the New Prosperity Gold-Copper Mine Project.
President & CEO of Taseko, Russ Hallbauer says Taseko’s plan to save Fish Lake, was not evaluated in a fair, open and transparent manner. “We will seek to rectify both the failed process and the decision that stemmed from it in a court of law, the only reasonable option open to us."
In a release issued today, Taseko says it was not given an opportunity to offer a response to submissions made to the Federal Government after the Panel review had been completed.
Taseko claims “government officials held inappropriate closed door meetings with opponents of the proposed mine without Taseko’s knowledge or informing the company of the content of those meetings.”
“We believe that the final government decision failed to consider critical information submitted by the Company and thus failed to fully understand our commitment and ability to protect the environment,” adds Hallbauer. “We were never given a fair opportunity to correct any misrepresentations about the project, nor were we allowed to clarify any misunderstanding on our plan to save Fish Lake.”
Taseko is asking the Federal Court to set aside decisions by the CEAA, the Minister of Environment and the Governor in Council because of “a failure to observe the principles of natural justice and procedural fairness.”
Comments
Surprised, I figured they would start investing out of country, instead of waiting for these local dimwits to figure it out.
Must be great to be working for the Feds, self righteously believe they know everything.
“believe” they know everything is exactly correct (emphasis on believe).
Fact is the bureaucracy showed clearly how inept they are and certainly the so called “engineers” in the Natural resources dept showed how unprofessional they are by not recognizing a state of the art seepage containment design that has already proven itself at many mine sites, one even as close as the Mt. Pooley mine just down the road from the future Prosperity mine.
That all being said…..there is a strong opinion abounding that the Nat Res Can engineers “mistake” was not a mistake at all, but deliberately planned because of the fact the Federal and Provincial governments have both quietly ceded all rights and powers of natural resource development to the Aboriginal bands.
I tend to share that opinion every time I see something like the Prosperity Mine incident happening.
There are many hoping that the Supreme Court will render an “unbiased” decision that clearly shows that the Taseko claim is exactly as it states.
Hope beyond hope ………………sigh!
That ore body is money in the bank. It will not rot or drift away. It will become more valuable as time passes.
Why do we have to consume it in 20 or so years? Why do we have to produce the waste rock so fast that the acid runoff cannot be absorbed by the enviroment? Why do we have to send the ore off shore to smelt it?
Mine it over 100 os years so the enviroment has a better chance of neutralizing the acid runoff. Smelt it in BC so we receive more of the ‘downstream’ benefits of our resources. The acid runoff will be a BC liability, therefore the royalties charged to the company should be in excess of the liability to ensure that the exploitation of this ore body will be a net benefit ti BC.
‘os’ should have been ‘or so’
Lets see, you are going to be paid $10,000.00 to do a contract with no time limit, you know you can do the job in 1 month, it costs you $20/day to work on this contract, but you decide you are going to take a year to do it. Do you see the flaw in your logic yet?
This ore body has neither a fixed value nor is there a fixed cost to mining it.
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