Williams Lake Tribune, April 17, 2012

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TUESDAY APRIL 17, 2012

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Likely Road crash fatal

VOL. 82. No. 31

Vaisakhi celebrated Greg Sabatino photo

The Gurdwara Western Singh Sabha on Pine Avenue featured Vaisakhi celebrations this past Saturday and Sunday at the local temple. Here (from left) Dalraj Veer, 8, Joslyn Mann, 11, Diya Rai, 7 and Manveer Ranu, 10, enjoy some refreshments during lunch time. The main cultural reason to celebrate Vaisakhi is for the selling and success of crops, and the main religious significance is the birth of the Khalsa, which is the collective body of all baptized Sikhs.

A single-vehicle crash on Likely Road left one person dead Friday night. At around 8 p.m. the Williams Lake RCMP Cariboo Chilcotin Traffic Services responded to the crash, west of Big Lake. An older model pick up truck left the roadway and entered a ditch, rolled over and ejected the driver and the passenger from the vehicle. The female driver was deceased at the scene and a male passenger was transported to Cariboo Memorial Hospital with non-life threatening injuries. The RCMP, in a news release, says neither occupants appeared to be wearing seat belts. BC Ambulance, Central Cariboo Search and Rescue Auto Extrication and Big Lake Fire Department also attended the scene. The Cariboo Chilcotin Traffic Services Unit is working in conjunction with the BC Coroners Service to determine the cause of the crash.

Inside the Tribune NEWS Fires started in the city.

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Taseko holds New Prosperity open houses

SPORTS A8 Bowl for Kids Sake raises $25K.

Monica Lamb-Yorski Tribune Staff Writer

COMMUNITY A11 Cariboo Festival continues.

Around 100 people attended the open house hosted by Taseko Mines Ltd. on Monday afternoon at the Gibraltar Room. Taseko’s vice president of corporate affairs Brian Battison shared two short video presentations on the New Prosperity and Gibraltar Mine projects, and then invited the public to speak one on one with staff members of Taseko. Before Battison began his presentation, half a dozen local First Nations gathered inside the entrance way to drum and sing a traditional song. Once the song was completed, they came into the room to listen to the presentation. During his short presentation, Battison said the mine presents an economical impact that will last for 22 years.

Weather outlook: Sunny today and tomorrow and the next day.

$1.34 inc. HST

Monica Lamb-Yorski photo

Taseko environmental technician Ashley Overton chats with John Mansell and Glenn Lambe during the Monday afternoon open house Taseko held at the Gibraltar room. “This investment, along with the benefit that will flow from it, can be accomplished without significant risk to the environment and with the very highest standards of mine development being practiced in the world,” Battison said, adding he

hopes the project will receive the approval it deserves. After the presentation, Glenn Lambe and John Massell both said even though it won’t affect them, they hope the mine goes through for the region’s economy.

On the other hand, Tl’esqox Chief Francis Laceese said he didn’t hear his concerns alleviated in the presentation — predominantly he’s worried about high winds at the proposed mine site that will blow tailings dust around the area that will impact terrain and local wildlife. Taseko’s environmental technician Ashley Overton worked for seven years at Gibraltar, before working on the New Prosperity project, and confirmed wind has been a big factor at Gibraltar. “There is a real dust problem there,” she said. At New Prosperity she said they will have to do early mitigation work, such as grass seeding right away. Roger William of the Xeni Gwet’in said he still does not believe that Fish Lake can be saved. See PLAN Page A2


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