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JANUARY 19, 2016 | Volume 29 No. 8
Official Tournament Mark This manual provides you with tools and guidelines to ensure the tournament logo type (tournament mark) for the 2016 IIHF Ice Hockey Women’s World Championship appears in a consistent manner that is appropriate to IIHF standards in all communications. These standards should be followed as closely as possible, however it is understood that requirements for unspecified applications may arise.
THE AJAX APPLICATION Yesterday at 6 a.m., KGHM Ajax submitted its 18,000-page application to the B.C. Environmental Assessment Office in its bid to gain approval for its proposed open-pit copper and gold mine south of Aberdeen. The application filing starts a 180-day review period, after which B.C. Environment Minister Mary Polak and federal Environment Minister Catherine McKenna will make the final decision. Both environment ministers must give their nod of approval for Ajax to proceed. KGHM Ajax is scheduled today to post online at ajaxmine.ca 47 plain-language summaries of its application. Summaries of Ajax’s air-quality, human-health and alternative measures assessments were provided to KTW last week and coverage of those summaries can be found online at kamloopsthisweek.com. The entire 18,000-page application can be read online at tinyurl.com/zmu5h2n.
Critics not persuaded CAM FORTEMS
STAFF REPORTER
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Critics of the proposed Ajax mine say warning signs about health impacts are already evident in the newly released application, while the company and mining interests are urging residents and leaders to trust its findings that the mine can safely co-exist beside a city of 85,000. KGHM Ajax began releasing its application yesterday, including the 18,000 pages of documentation and plain-language summaries. Yves Lacasse, spokesman for the joint venture company, said the
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application should satisfy residents regarding health and safety concerns from the mine. “The report, all 18,000 pages of it, says there is no serious impact,” he said. Jill Calder, a member of Kamloops Physicians for a Healthy Environment, said she has not yet had a chance to view details in the application and cautioned reliance on the summaries and corporate statements. “I’m somewhat concerned the plain language will omit things and dumb them down,” she said.
While it was able to “considerably reduce” the intrusion into Jacko Lake, KGHM said it was unable to avoid impacting Peterson Creek, with the mine’s pit For questions and approvals related to licensing, please contact: intruding on the creek to the south of Jacko Lake. Dale Ptycia – dptycia@hockeycanada.ca For questions and approvals related to multimedia or print, CAMILLE B. VILLENEUVE PHOTO please contact: For questions and approvals related to sponsorship, please contact: Bruce Newton – bnewton@hockeycanada.ca
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The official tournament mark will appear prominently on all official communications and marketing materials pertaining to the 2016 IIHF Ice Hockey Women’s World Championship. The tournament mark has bilingual (English/French, horizontal only), English (horizontal and vertical), and French (horizontal and vertical) versions. The bilingual version of the official tournament mark should be used in cases where both English and French are being used in the communication.
English (horizontal)
English (vertical)
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report, “allThe 18,000
pages of it, says there is no serious impact.
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— YVES LACASSE, KGHM AJAX EXTERNAL-AFFAIRS MANAGER
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KGHM dividend cut? ANDREA KLASSEN
STAFF REPORTER
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Economic uncertainty at its Polish parent company isn’t yet affecting KGHM Ajax’s operations in Kamloops. Reuters reported yesterday that KGHM could end up cutting its 2015 dividends to shareholders in the face of increasingly low copper prices, which on Friday reached their lowest levels since 2009.
The company also has a new supervisory board as of yesterday, which has been tasked with analyzing the company’s foreign investments. “I expect the supervisory board to review the foreign investments carried out by KGHM, particularly the one in Chile, assessing its validity, because we have some doubts,” Polish State Treasury Minister Dawid Jackiewicz told the
Polish Press Agency last week. The Polish government is a major shareholder in KGHM. As well, there is media speculation company CEO Herbert Wirth could face the axe in the coming weeks as part of a larger management reshuffle in Poland’s state owned-companies, following a change in government last fall. See LOW COPPER, A6
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