ApocaDocs: Don't consider native spirituality in mine review, Ottawa urged

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Posted Tue May 1 2012: from Edmonton Journal:


	Don't consider native spirituality in mine review, Ottawa urged http://apocadocs.com/s.pl?1335915654 A new federal environmental review panel "does not have any right to attribute significance to the spirituality of a place per se," Taseko Mines Ltd. president Russell Hallbauer wrote in a letter obtained under the Access to Information Act and provided to the Vancouver Sun by B.C. independent MLA Bob Simpson. Vancouver-based Taseko, which failed in its 2010 bid to get federal approval after a "scathing" federal review, also asked Ottawa to not permit aboriginal prayer ceremonies at pending hearings on the revised proposal. Children's plays should also be banned, Hallbauer said in his November letter.

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'Doc Jim says:

This guy is the very definition of killjoy.