The Canadian mining company Taseko Mines Limited is scheduled to present its application to the Federal Court of Canada next Wednesday (October 22) to change a review of two government environmental decisions into a civil suit suing both the Attorney General of Canada and the Minister of the Environment.
Earlier this year the company made the decision to change the two judicial review applications it has before the Federal Court.
One challenges an environmental review panel’s negative decision on its New Prosperity mining project in the Pacific Coast province of British Columbia. The company describes the project as “One of Canada’s largest undeveloped copper-gold projects.”
The company had also asked for a review of the negative decision of Canada’s federal cabinet.
The First Nations Indigenous government that says it will be affected by the mining operation criticized the delaying actions of the company this past summer.
“TML’s decision to significantly delay its court challenges tells us that they don’t actually want their day in court, and in fact, they intend to string along their investors, taxpayers and the Tsilhqot’in and waste more money on a dead project,” said Chief Joe Alphonse, Tribal Chair for the Tsilhqot’in National Government in a statement released August 25, 2014.
More information:
Business in Vancouver – Taseko seeks damages over Prosperity decision – here
Huffington Post – Taseko Mines To Fight Rejection Of New Prosperity Project In Court – here
Vancouver Sun/Don Cayo – Taseko wants to sue Ottawa for regulatory unfairness – here
Taseko Mines Limited website – www.tasekomines.com
Tsilhqot’in Government press release (pdf) – here
Tsilhqot’in website – www.tsilhqotin.ca
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