"...we’re going to stop that mine, one way or another." - Chief Ervin Charleyboy
In this Williams Lake Tribune article, Tsilhqot'in government representatives tell their side of the story in regards to the Taseko Mines Prosperity project being approved for a provincial environmental assessment over their objections. This issue, reminiscent of Northgate Minerals' Kemess North project, which was rejected by a joint review panel last September, a decision that Canada and BC confirmed this past March, recalls the provincial environment minister's letter to Northgate's CEO, Ken Stowe, part of which was reprinted in the weekly Vancouver news magazine, the Georgia Straight. The minister wrote: "we wish to make clear that we are not holding that a mine project can never receive approval in circumstances where a lake is used to manage tailings...."
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