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Permit applications have been withdrawn for a large-scale mineral exploration project just south of the B.C./Washington border. Echo Bay Exploration (EBE), a fully-owned subsidiary of Kinross Gold, announced their withdrawal of the Buckhorn Mountain Exploration Project that might have impacted Meyers Creek and the Kettle River had it gone ahead. Kinross had proposed exploration activity 24/7, utilizing up to 20 drill rigs simultaneously in the Okanogan Highlands above the town of Chesaw, near the U.S./Canada international border. According to Graham Watt, coordinator of the Kettle River Management Plan, there are two creeks in the area that ultimately flow into the Kettle River at Rock Creek. The Okanogan Highlands Alliance (OHA) questioned the accuracy of wetland inventories and the lack of adequate baseline water quality data during the required environmental review process. “Kinross/Echo Bay is facing the economic reality that its ‘blank cheque’ approach for unfettered exploration over an entire large block of lands was not going to be feasible if the agencies were going to seriously analyze the impacts,” stated David Kliegman, executive director of OHA. Kliegman told the Times the withdrawal of the permit application came as a surprise; however, he did speculate the company’s stock is at an alltime low and the price of gold is going down. According to its website, Kinross is a Cana-
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Most of the 2014 BCSS Sustainable Resources class made it into the frame for a group picture in the Midway Community Garden before heading back to the stuffy old classroom last week.
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Garden gets help from youth Many hands make light work—it’s a saying that is abundantly demonstrated when the 16 BCSS Sustainable Resources and Agriculture students showed up at the Midway Community Garden in the spring to help give the season a kick start. This is the third year that teacher Lisa Baia has offered the Sustainable Resources Course. The course gives the students a science credit, something they need for graduation. And while it is attractive for the kids who aren’t into physics, biology or chemistry, the class also draws others such as Grade 12 student Emily Parker who came to class wearing a crown made of dandelions. Emily is heading into a two-year program in integrated environmental planning this fall. As well as helping plant potatoes and asparagus, lay irrigation line, weed a patch of garlic, lay mulch along pathways and the countless other things that need to be done in the garden, the class also looks after a greenhouse at the school that is full to the max with green stuff.
They have 100 squash almost ready to be planted. They have lettuce, kale, tomatoes and peppers—some for the community gardens and some for the teachers. They are also growing grass that will be used for the Boothman’s Oxbow Restoration Project east of Grand Forks. “It is hard work, but it is good work,” said Grade 11 student Madison Harpur. “I like it quite a bit—knowing we are doing something for the environment and learning how to be green.” Community garden coordinator Dick Dunsdon said that Vaagen sawmill donated four loads of hog fuel and local contractor Tom Bosovich trucked it to the garden at no cost. So it really is a community garden. Last week the class planted potatoes and put in the drip irrigation pipe, which has to be buried so the birds don’t get to it and peck holes in it. Squash, cantaloupe and watermelon that was started in the class’s greenhouse will go into the garden this week. There is a plot set aside ready for six rows of beans this year too.
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