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Remembering loved ones by lighting a bulb on the 100 Mile District Hospice Palliative Care Society Memory Tree is an annual ritual for many, including Tianna King, middle and Vanessa Manuel, right. They were in Cariboo Mall on Nov. 30 lighting up memories of King’s grandpa and uncle. Hospice program director Gayle Dunsmuir was in the mall that day exchanging colourful Christmas bulbs for cash donations, and volunteers will be back again on Dec. 7-8. Bulbs are also available at Donex until Dec. 12. On Dec. 14, the official Memory Tree beside the fire hall will be lit during a ceremony in the hospital cafeteria at 6 p.m.
New Prosperity project EIS deemed deficient Review panel decision attracted Taseko objections
(DFO) report on a sufficiency review of the EIS’ draft lake productivity information. The Canadian Environmental Taseko senior vice-president of Assessment Agency’s Federal operations John McManus had disReview Panel has rejected puted the need for more the Environmental Impact scientific research and data in Statement (EIS) submitted for a Nov. 27 letter to the panel. the proposed New Prosperity “... it is discouraging the Gold–Copper project. panel has used an apparent Brian Battison, Taseko technicality to stop the timeMines Ltd. vice-president of line remaining for the panel corporate affairs, says the comto complete it’s review,” said BRIAN pany disagrees with the panel’s McManus. demand for additional cumu- BATTISON Ross acknowledged lative effects assessments. Taseko’s protest in his “There is no major deficiency with response, but said the panel won’t respect to cumulative effects in our budge on its decision. EIS. So, our view is they’re asking for “The Panel disagrees, and finds something they already have.” Taseko’s cumulative effects assessIn a Nov. 29 letter to Taseko, review ment methodology and, accordingly, panel chair Bill Ross stated the panel the EIS deficient,” explained Ross. needs more information based on a “According to the Terms of Reference Department of Fisheries and Oceans and the act, the panel may require the Carole Rooney Free Press
information that it deems necessary “Information requests are routine. to assess the project.” This is ... a normal course of events in The information request (IR) a panel review.” points to shortcomings in productivHowever, he explains that while it ity models assuming a phosphorus was not unprepared to receive an IR, limitation in Fish Lake; and the future Taseko was surprised to see it characimpacts of global warming, lake terized it as a “major deficiency.” eutrophication (water bodies receive The panel’s job isn’t to decide if excess nutrients that the information is accu... it is stimulate excessive rate, he explained, but discouraging plant growth) and recirrather to determine if the the panel has information provided is culation of lake on its used an apthermal regimes and sufficient to go to public parent techni- hearing. productivity. cality to stop While it does delay Taseko will now the timeline the whole project, regroup before going remaining [to] back again to the panel Battison notes any panel complete it’s for another round in “the information requests review.” stop the 12-month sufficiency argument,” Battison adds. timeline government John McManus He notes there are granted to Taseko for more than 20,000 pages it’s current proposal. “Having been through this before, of scientific information in the EIS Continued on A5 we knew it would be a long process.
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