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Saturday, May 8, 2010

First Nations Women Advocating rejecting Mining Call On Federal Panel To Save Fish Lake http://bit.ly/byJcOK

First Nations Women Advocating Responsible Mining today expressed its unequivocal support for the Tsilhqot’in National Government and the overwhelming number of other opponents to Taseko Mines Ltd’s bid to kill Teztan Biny (Fish Lake). FNWARM called on the Canadian Environmental Review Agency to reject the Prosperity Mine plan, which if allowed would also threaten major watersheds and fisheries in BC and set a precedent for more pristine lakes to be sacrificed to make way for destructive mines. 

“Ironically, the CERA panel has just wrapped up its public hearings as the province and industry prepare to promote Mining Week May 9-15, and from our own experience as First Nations we know it faces enormous political and corporate pressure to approve the mine,” says FNWARM Chair Anne Marie Sam. “But we urge the panel to resist these pressures and reject the mine based on the overwhelming number of submissions against this project by those who live on and depend on the land, waters and fisheries, and based on the evidence of the environmental and cultural damage it would cause.”

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