The Hook

Best film I've watched for some time!

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Unbelievable

It is unbelievable as to what lengths the money mongers wiil stoop to in order to line their pockets with cash. The mere idea of killing off a lake full of fish is ludicrous.

If this project ever gains environmental approval, the environmental assessment authority and any politicians that meddle with them should face a firing squad. No trial, nothing, just extermination.

It's no wonder that our habitat is slowly but surely becoming inhabitable for ever increasing species of wildlife and in some cases, man.

There does come a time where we must say no more insanity. This project may very well be a good place to start.

If this film is

If this film is "propaganda", what is the name of "Prosperity mine" for this environmental disaster ?

Since the FTA and the NAFTA have destroyed the Canadian economy, we have become a "resource based economy", which means selling the country from under our feet.

Here we have the huge ore trucks from the Polley Mtn. copper mine destroying the Likely road, with deep grooves in the asphalt and no repairs, taking Canada's wealth to the docks.

This "Prosperity " nonsense will only multiply the damage on the other side, with the trucks polluting and giving a drug shot in the arm for a small percentage of the local economy for 20 years, but what happens after that?

Another open pit mine, then more and more to jack up the fraudulent GDP figures and making foreign bilionaries even richer?

Ed Deak, Big Lake.

It's called freedom of speech

Not something that seems to mean much to lawyers and mining companies, apparently.

Lakes vs Tailing Ponds

Teck Resources is doing the same thing at their Duck Lake Operations in NFLD. Here is an excellent article explaining the impact of this decision.

http://www.miningwatch.ca/en/proposed-pollution-two-lakes-central-newfoundland

In 2008 the Federal Govt introduced legislation to ammend the Navigable Waters Act. These ammendments have made it much easier for Mining Companies to get away with killing lakes.

And, here's a link from the mining watch web page regarding this same story:
http://www.miningwatch.ca/en/proposed-prosperity-gold-copper-mine

kootenay

Thanks for those - and, it seems to me that I should amend my comment by adding a few words.
Here's the amended version:

It's called freedom of speech

Not something that seems to mean much to lawyers, many governments and mining companies, apparently.

Lies make money.

I am recalling the words of an alcoholic bulldozer operator from Labrador that I worked with on Kiewit's Cloudworks project.

"There are some things, " he said, "that the public shouldn't know."

A hearing is a hearing

Information presented at a hearing should be able to take any form: letters, speeches, or a film. Attempts to bar a film, simply because it's a different communication medium, from a hearing - the purpose of which, one assumes - is to "hear" - is ridiculous.

I imagine there are other reasons that might make it difficult for a mining company to hear, what with their collective hearing appendages apparently being in far too close a proximity to anatomy normally used for expelling waste.

I see that people can sign the petition to help save this lake at the Friends of Nemaiah Valley site: http://www.protectfishlake.ca/petition.php

Propaganda

This film is pure propaganda. The Environmental Assessment process is science based. The provincial EA process has already determined the risks are manageable and the benefits out weight the risks. The hydrological modeling proves that the water resource is not at risk. This modeling is firmer then the modeling which Global Warming is based. I notice the protesters have lots of Trucks and ATV's all made from metals how hypocritical. These protesters appear semi educated and go on a spiritual bent and did not advance one scientific study in support of their views.

And the promise of a few jobs is not propaganda?

Maybe some citizens just like the mountain lakes the way they are. No need to add cyanide, mercury or crushed rock.
You still trust Environmental Assessment?
They seem to be approving any project that pays royalty and promises 5 jobs to locals.

dirtmeister

You are either a shill for the PAB or just grossly uninformed. No scientist in his/her right mind would condone killing off a lake(actually 2 lakes) full of fish unless his or her opinion was bought off by those that only care about filling their jeans with money.

AS for what people against this venture drive is of little relevance. Taseko wishes to mine copper and gold from this site. Neither of these metals are used in very large quantities in the construction of automobiles.

dirtmeister

"The Environmental Assessment process is science based."

Cut back on your dosage, the process is based on politics and money.

Rubber Stamp

Here's a good article regarding the 'Scientific Environmental Assessment' for this project.

http://vancouver.mediacoop.ca/newsrelease/2478

Dirtmeister, you might want to give this a read.

If my memory serves me right, didn't the feds decline to do an enviromental assessement, I believe that was something the locals were fighting for at the federal review panel hearings.

Neither of those metals are

Neither of those metals are used by Canadian industries to any degree either, because there are no Canadian industries left to use them.

All the local copper production is owned by carpetbaggers and is going overseas.

The whole racket is the sale of the country to feed the insatiable profit demands of the middlemen.

Ed Deak.

Only a god can make a lake!

Tselko claims they will make a replacement lake,well if that is true,make one to destroy and leave the real one alone

http://powellriverpersuader.blogspot.com/2010/01/say-goodbye-to-fish-lakeforever.html