PROPOSED CANADIAN GOLD AND COPPER PROJECT, ONE OF COUNTRY’S LARGEST, UNDER SECOND ENVIRONMENTAL REVIEW
May 1st, 2012
BY KITTY SO, IN OTTAWA
The Canadian minister of the environment has established a three-member review panel to assess, for the second time, the environmental impact of a proposed project at one of Canada's largest undeveloped gold-copper deposits.
Its probe will consider a proposed 20-year development of the New Prosperity Gold-Copper Mine Project in British Columbia, located north of Vancouver about 125 km southwest of Williams Lake, by Vancouver -based mining company Taseko.
"If feasibility studies remain positive and Taseko is successful in gaining the ...
Full access to this article can be arranged with permission from the client that first ordered it. Please contact us to request access. Entries are uploaded to our archive at least one year after being published by a client – free access is restricted to International News Services journalists for background research only. The article date indicates when copy was filed to a client, not when posted to this archive. Upon client requests, International News Services will remove such articles from the archive or not upload them in the first place. They are included to demonstrate the breadth of topics undertaken by the agency and also to help promote clients’ coverage.