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Environmental and Social Impact
- What will happen to Fish Lake?
- How will this affect the Grizzly bear population?
- Is New Prosperity Better for the Environment than the Original Prosperity Plan?
- What about other environmental impact like water, vegetation and air?
- Isn’t this project situated on land that belongs to the First Nations?
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Economic Benefits of the New Prosperity Gold-Copper Project
- New Economic Report Confirms Monumental Benefits of New Prosperity
- What about revenue sharing with First Nations?
- Will there be any benefit for people who aren’t in the mining industry?
- What are the wages like?
- With a decline in the forestry industry how will this mining project be any different?
- Will there be any tax revenue?
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Is this not a spin of words depending on how you look at it? Crown land meaning no treaty was signed therefore, as Taseko puts it, no agreement has been made to assign the land as a ‘reserve’ for First Nations. But if you look at it from the other side, no treaty means the Xeni Gwet’in never ceded their land to the government, it was simply assumed to be property of Canada by colonizers. And if the Tsilhqot’in people have protected rights to hunt and trap on the land where the massive open pit mine is to be located, how is the project not recognized as a massive threat to those rights? This is the same threat that the first ‘Prosperity’ plan posed and part of why it was rejected by the federal government.
Is a 200 acre lake really worth $300 million. Canadians must be worth trillions based on this arithmetic. Won't the local First Nations just accept $100 million ($50,000 a person in this area) and save Taseko $200 million.
When you speak that this is crown land you are talking as the ruler and not from the prisoners point of view. The First nations people have been prisoners of war now for more then 300 years and longer. There land right claims have been taken from them as our society evolves each and every year. How can you say what progression is? When is it all right to take land that isn't yours, destroy is and leave toxic lakes and holes and then call it progress?
Why are the aboriginals against this plan? Is the mining company treading on native territory that has been untouched and protected for centuries?
Will this affect the aboriginal way of living?