Taseko

BC’s Zombie Mine – “New Prosperity”
Tuesday, November 29, 2011

Following an extensive environmental assessment by an independent review panel, the federal government rejected Taseko Mines Ltd.’s proposed Prosperity Mine Project. Just three months later the company re-filed another proposal dubbing it the “New Prosperity” project.

British Columbia, Environmental Planning, Environmental Assessment, Newsletter 31: Autumn 2011, Taseko
Tsilhqot’in Statement of Commitment to Protect the Land that Sustains Us and Our Future Generations
Thursday, November 3, 2011

Today marks the anniversary of the Federal Government’s decision rejecting the Prosperity Mine proposal and protecting the environment, waters, fish and fish habitat, grizzly and grizzly habitat and our constitutionally protected rights as First Peoples in our homelands.   Once again, we thank the Minister of Environment Jim Prentice and the Federal Government for protecting the public interest and for upholding the rights of First Nations under the Canadian Constitution. Unfortunately, this dire threat to our people, our lands and our way of life as Tsilhqot’in people continues to this day.

Metal Mining Effluent Regulations, British Columbia, Environmental Planning, Environmental Assessment, Indigenous Rights, Water and fisheries, Taseko
Ten Reasons Why Prosperity Mine Bid Will Fail
Thursday, November 3, 2011

Investors hoping to cash in on Taseko Mines Ltd’s second Prosperity Mine bid should think back a year. Despite assurances from the company and its president that it would proceed, the company’s original bid was soundly rejected by the federal government and share prices plunged. Once again, there is a proposal before the federal government’s Canadian Environmental Assessment Agency (CEAA) and the company’s president is saying he is confident it will be approved. And once again the federal government has no choice but to reject it. Here are 10 reasons why.

Metal Mining Effluent Regulations, British Columbia, Environmental Planning, Environmental Assessment, Indigenous Rights, Water and fisheries, Taseko
Tshilquot'in National Government: No to Prosperity Mine
Tuesday, October 25, 2011

In October 2011, representatives of the Tsilhqot'in National Government visited Ottawa to tell elected officials and federal bureaucrats that the "new" proposal by Taseko Mines for their proposed Prosperity Mine was equally as dangerous as the original version turned down in November 2010.

In November 2011, the federal government granted the company a review of its re-worked proposal.

Water, British Columbia, Environmental Planning, Indigenous Rights, Taseko
Attempt to Revive Proposed Prosperity Mine Must End Now
Wednesday, October 19, 2011

The Tsilhqot’in Nation, supported by BC and national chiefs, today called on the Canadian Environmental Assessment Agency (CEAA) and the federal government to reject the re-bid Prosperity mine project without further waste of time and tax dollars.

Canada, Metal Mining Effluent Regulations, British Columbia, Environmental Planning, Environment, Environmental Assessment, Gold, Impact on Communities, Indigenous Rights, Submarine/Subaqueous Tailings Disposal, Water and fisheries, Taseko
End the Costly and Pointless 'Prosperity' Mine Review Now, Tsilhqot'in Urge
Friday, August 26, 2011

News release: The Tsilhqot’in National Government today called on the Federal government to halt the continuous drain on everyone’s time and resources and to reject Taseko Mines Limited’s rebid for the 'Prosperity' copper-gold mine project.

Metal Mining Effluent Regulations, Water, British Columbia, Environmental Planning, Environmental Assessment, Indigenous Rights, Water and fisheries, Taseko
Audit Reveals BC Environmental Assessment of Prosperity Mine Was Nothing But A Rubber Stamp
Friday, July 22, 2011

An audit of the BC Environmental Assessment Office (BC EAO) raises explosive evidence of the length to which the BC government went to help Taseko Mines Ltd.

British Columbia, Environmental Planning, Environmental Assessment, Indigenous Rights, Taseko
AFN Chiefs join Tsilhqot’in in opposition to rebid Prosperity Mine project
Thursday, July 14, 2011

Tsilhqot'in National Government news release: (Moncton, N.B.) The Tsilhqot'in National Government today welcomed the unanimous decision by the Assembly of First Nations’ Chiefs-in-Assembly in Moncton to help the Nation defend its lands against a bid to revive one of the worst mining proposals in BC history.

Water, British Columbia, Indigenous Rights, Water and fisheries, Taseko
Taseko’s “New Prosperity” PR Misrepresents Panel Findings
Thursday, June 9, 2011

On a flashy new website, Taseko claims that it has addressed all of the issues raised by the review panel and that it continues to work collaboratively with the First Nations on whose traditional territory the massive open pit operation would be located.

Metal Mining Effluent Regulations, British Columbia, Reforming Mining Laws and Policies, Environmental Planning, Environmental Assessment, Indigenous Rights, Submarine/Subaqueous Tailings Disposal, Water and fisheries, Taseko
Overview of Federal Review Panel Findings and Taseko’s “New Prosperity” Project
Thursday, June 9, 2011

In its July 2010 report, a Federal Review Panel identified a number of significant adverse effects that were likely to occur if Taseko Mines were permitted to build its proposed Prosperity gold-copper mine. These were significant adverse effects, for which the panel saw no reasonable means of mitigation.

Metal Mining Effluent Regulations, British Columbia, Reforming Mining Laws and Policies, Environmental Planning, Environmental Assessment, Indigenous Rights, Submarine/Subaqueous Tailings Disposal, Water and fisheries, Taseko

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