killing a lake forever is not worth 2000 man years of work.

Pat Bell is a laugh.. what power does he have at all in this instance...NON.. but he does get his picture splashed around with a few useless sound bites

Pat bell's involvement will probably keep the file from being pushed from the Federal Ministers desk into a garbage can. If you have all the answers, he would probably be more than willing to listen.

Bell has done more for us than the rest of thae whole party put together

from the article: "Pat Bell says he hopes to meet with the Federal Minister of the Environment soon to talk about ALTERNATE PROPOSALS for the Prosperity Mine."

Exactly what part of that sentence did you not understand P Val?

I sure would like to know why the province approved the project and the feds did not. To me there is a lesson to be learned by the province here.

Canadian mining companies are not exactly associated with an environmental conscience in their operations outside of Canada. In Papua, New Guinea they were cited by amnesty International.

In another case, Barrick Mines shares held by the Norwegian government were sold off because:

"Under Norwegian rules, the public pension fund is not allowed to invest in companies that in the judgment of Norwegian council on ethics entail an unacceptable risk of the fund contributing to environmental damages.”

As in any other business, there are rules in place under which the business of mining is to be conducted. As in any other business, there will be those who will cry foul if they do not wish to do business under those rules rather than quitting the business or complying with well intentioned rules/guidelines which industry itself is typically part of developing.