Ecuador court gives green light for Silvercorp, Salazar’s El Domo project
The ruling removes the last major obstacle for the $250 million project, located 150 km northeast of Guayaquil.
HD Mining, the Vancouver-based company that sparked controversy in October last year with a scheme to hire up to 2,000 Chinese miners for its proposed $300 million northern B.C. coal mine, is expected as many as 30 miners to arrive from China in the next few weeks.
They will be the first foreign workers to arrive at Murray River since a Federal Court ruled in May the company could continue with its plans of bringing Chinese miners, despite the opposition of two labour unions. They challenged federal government decisions allowing an initial group of 201 Chinese miners to be employed at the coal project.
HD Mining is not currently booking media interviews with the workers and intends to focus on its project, company’s spokeswoman Jody Shimkus told The Globe and Mail.
They are likely to be subject to considerable interest since they arrival prompted Canadian authorities last year not only to investigate the circumstances under which foreign workers were being brought into the country, but also to review its entire temporary foreign worker program.
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Trent Ernst
Point of clarification; HD is bringing in 200 temporary foreign workers for the bulk sample, and up to 600 temporary foreign workers to work in their Murray River Project for up to ten years as they transition skills to Canadian Workers. There are other mines under development that may also bring in foreign workers up to the aforementioned 2000, but those are not HD properties. The way it is written makes it sound as if the one mine will be bringing in all 2000 workers, which is not the case.
Wayne Waters
I doubt very much this group will ever leave Canada. The door has been opened, let’s see what happens.