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Not really sure how the mining industry can claim to support First Nations but deny their right to be notified when an individual or business “claims” its additional right to develop resources without consultation with the people the government of Canada, and British Columbia both admit are the actual owners? The premise of this article is that it’s economically thriftier to continue to pretend that First Nations rights don’t exist.
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As BIV reported on Dec 11, the claim that red tape holds up permits is outright false: https://www.biv.com/news/resources-agriculture/contrary-to-industry-claims-red-tape-not-slowing-bc-mineral-boom-finds-audit-9936669
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The spills are 1000 m upstream of the wellhead for the community of Wells, through which the Lowhee flows. This fine belongs to a company that has repeatedly been fined for profit-motivated offenses since 2019. see: https://fredinwells.wordpress.com/2023/06/04/how-to-fix-an-explosive-problem/
The article claims the company is in communication with interested parties but no-one in the community of Wells (including city councillors) was aware of the repeated spills into our waterway, or the resulting fines.
Dividing the fines by the number of incidents gives a cost-per-spill of $661.87.
Now, this company, and the provincial government would like us to believe that they can build another mine, (Cariboo Gold Project) right inside the residential area of Wells and that there will be no economic, environmental or social fallout. : https://fredinwells.wordpress.com/2023/11/29/osisko-ignores-wells-land-use-law/
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This creek (Lowhee) is the primary headwater of the Willow River, which enters the Fraser east of Prince George. The spills are 1000 m upstream of the wellhead for the community of Wells, through which the Lowhee flows. This fine belongs to a company that has repeatedly been fined for profit-motivated offenses since 2019. see: https://fredinwells.wordpress.com/2023/06/04/how-to-fix-an-explosive-problem/
The article claims the company is in communication with interested parties but no-one in the community of Wells was aware of the repeated spills into our waterway, or the resulting fines.
Dividing the fines by the number of incidents gives a cost-per-spill of $661.87.
Now, this company, and the provincial government would like us to believe that they can build another mine, (Cariboo Gold Project) right inside the residential area of Wells and that there will be no economic or social fallout. : https://fredinwells.wordpress.com/2023/11/29/osisko-ignores-wells-land-use-law/
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he opening photos show Bonanza Ledge, not QR plant. Bonanza Ledge is a huge disturbed site where Osisko will build phase 1. It's where they should also build phase2.
Quote: "Osisko will create a new water supply for the more than 200 residents of Wells.", It should be clarified the EA certificate states, this is because the province anticipates that Osisko 'is likely' to poison the existing water supply.
The phase2 part of the CGP is not being built 'near Wells'....Just as Osisko did to the citizens of Malartic, Quebec, the plan is to drive us out of our homes in order to build phase2 right in the middle of our residential areas.
Also, in order to electrify the plant Osisko refuses to work with BC hydro but instead will build 60 km of new powerline through high value Caribou habitat, only to have to rip it out of the ground again just 12 years later, as part of the reclamation project.
Fifth: https://fredinwells.wordpress.com/2023/11/29/osisko-ignores-wells-land-use-law/
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Lets not forget that Osisko did this in Malartic Quebec, where they flipped the company and then they and the new company had to settle out of court for the damages they caused the city. Now in BC, they are attempting to build a project in a residential area again. Hopefully, this will also be stopped. https://fredinwells.wordpress.com/2023/11/29/osisko-ignores-wells-land-use-law/
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Using the math in the article, this project will extract $12 Billion worth of gold at a cost of under $2 Billion (according to Osisko). For less than $1/2 Billion more, Osisko could move the concentrator to a location, on the ore body, that would not turn our town into an industrial site, dismantling both the tourism economy and the quality of life of local residents. Granted, the shareholders would only make $9.5 Billion in profits instead of $10 Billion, but a community would be preserved.
A new study shows that Osisko already costs the local economy up to $2 million per year in lost tourism revenue to the Barkerville region. This is the primary industry of our region, and has a much longer lifespan.
Their Environmental Certificate is still in doubt. There is a simple adjustment to the plan that would ensure its success but for the sake of shareholder profit, they refuse to make it, jeopardizing the success of the application.
The Citizen is should balance its reporting.
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Appian claims they invest in green mining tech...which gold mining isn't. Osisko claims it will start construction in fall of 2025, which is a physical impossibility given the amendments that have to be made to proceed with the new feasibility study. As Jamie Steidle pointed out in his well written recent analysis, this project and this company record speak for themselves, and the BC government has adequately published the non-compliance data to prove one of the poorest track records in the province! This project will not complete as proposed, and either Appian will force the changes required to protect its investors or the delays forced on the project by attempting to proceed as is, will cause them to withdraw their support.
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