Victoria Gold’s Eagle mine site groundwater highly contaminated, Yukon government says
Groundwater flowing from Eagle mine shows signs of high cyanide contamination, though much of the water is being contained on site.
Resource jobs are in danger because the province’s elites are ‘detached from economic reality’, according to a Vancouver Sun editorial.
Fazil Mihlar takes a takes a broad swipe at the NDP and other environmentalists who are opposing a broad range of resources projects that will deliver well-paying jobs.
The environmental movement is against the copper-gold Prosperity Mine near Williams Lake, which would add $4.5 billion to our economy and 60,000 person-years of direct and indirect employment over its lifetime. Vancouver Mayor Gregor Robertson is against Kinder Morgan’s $5-billion existing pipeline expansion project. Other local politicians line up against expansion of Port Metro Vancouver, which directly and indirectly employs 129,500 Canadians, pays out $6.1 billion in wages and adds $10.5 billion to our gross domestic product.
The Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives, a think-tank funded partly by labour unions, isn’t enthusiastic about gas extraction, not to mention mining. Considering these projects offer highly paid union jobs, this is a shocking attitude.
