Harper to decide fate of B.C. mine

Stephen Harper has the summer to decide whether hundreds of new jobs created by a proposed $800-million copper-gold mine in the struggling British Columbia Interior outweigh the significant negative environmental impacts, including the destruction of a fishing lake. A federal review panel ruled late Friday that the Prosperity copper-gold mine would have “significant adverse environmental effects” on several factors, including fish, fish habitat, grizzly bears and first nations’ use of the land for traditional purposes. But the open-pit mine, which would use the lake to store waste tailings from the copper and gold processing, has already been approved by the B.C. government. While the B.C. assessment foresaw harm to the environment, it concluded.... For more info visit http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/national/british-columbia/harper-to-...