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By Cam Fortems
Daily News Staff Reporter
Daily News Staff Reporter
Kamloops will play a major role if Premier Christy Clark’s jobs plan is to produce results within four years.
The city could be home to two of eight new mines Clark pledged will open by 2015. New Gold Inc. is scheduled to start production at New Afton next year, while KGHM-Ajax is hoping to start production in 2015.
Mike Cathro, past-president of Kamloops Exploration Group, said there are 25 projects in B.C. in advanced stages or undergoing environmental review.
“It’s not out of line,” Cathro said of Clark’s forecast of eight new mines and expansion of nine others.
And Cathro said Kamloops could be in the middle of the action, restoring its historic image as a centre for mining.
“New Gold is under construction. The Ajax project is going through environmental assessment. There’s a new mine at Copper Mountain in Princeton and quite a lot of other projects around. It looks like she’s betting on a lot of these projects.”
Peter Aylen, president of the Kamloops Chamber of Commerce, applauded Clark for her ambitious plans amid worrying signs of worldwide economic instability.
And he called Clark’s pledge of a $24-million investment to reduce regulatory delays on natural resource projects “a huge thing.
“It can take longer to get approvals than to build a mine. To get permits to do anything takes so long. In the mining industry investors have decided they don’t want to be here. They’ll go instead to Peru or Chile.”
But Tom Friedman, New Democrat candidate for Kamloops-South Thompson, said stripping rules and letting industry regulate itself can lead to disasters. The best example is the American lending system.
“I’m sure Ajax is one of the mines the premier anticipates will open. But without proper regulatory protection we may face problems.”
Friedman said under current regulations, municipalities have little say on mining projects. In Kamloops, that has raised the spectre of an industrial neighbour many residents say doesn’t belong.
“The market’s been very unsuccessful in regulating itself.”
Friedman applauded investment in infrastructure, including at Deltaport. But he said what’s missing is a commitment to educating Canadian students in post-secondary and skills training.
Aylen credited Clark with setting goals and attempting to find a way to get more British Columbians working, particularly during an uncertain time.
“If you don’t, things will pass you by.”
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With attitudes like you people have we will have no new jobs whatsoever. Nice to see where the true NDP supporters stand in relationship to jobs. We will all take your comments into consideration at the next election that the NDP will lose again.....
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Of course Christy Clark is right. The Ajax mine (700m from planned development and about 1.4km from current subdivisions) will create many jobs.
In addition to miners, there will be a boom for health care workers, as people suffer from respiratory effects of the dust and from sleep deprivation due to noise. Lawyers will also profit, as nuisance claims rise. Moving companies will be rolling in the money as people are driven from the homes they built in areas of Pineview, Dufferin, Aberdeen, and Pineview. Then once the mine is gone, we may also be able to employ people for decades in cleaning up the pollution left behind. Of course, some of these jobs will have to be funded by taxpayers, but that is a small price to pay.
In addition to miners, there will be a boom for health care workers, as people suffer from respiratory effects of the dust and from sleep deprivation due to noise. Lawyers will also profit, as nuisance claims rise. Moving companies will be rolling in the money as people are driven from the homes they built in areas of Pineview, Dufferin, Aberdeen, and Pineview. Then once the mine is gone, we may also be able to employ people for decades in cleaning up the pollution left behind. Of course, some of these jobs will have to be funded by taxpayers, but that is a small price to pay.
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The Crusty Clark Show !!!!
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Christy Clark needs all the tax revenue and royalties to fund projects in the golden triangle such as the gateway project and the BC statium roof while the people in South Kamloops suffer from health issues from dust and toxins plus our property values will plummet. Too bad for her that both local liberal canditates will be handed their hats during the next election
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So is Christy pre-empting the Provincial and Federal environmental approval processes and allready granting the Ajax project the go ahead?
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For all intents and purposes her announcement today pretty much invalidates the EA process, and with that announcement comes a nice helping of deregulation....God help us.
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Okay --- so now the new jobs stratgey of Christy Clark is going to include mines that were already in planning and development. That's a pretty sweet deal considering she is looking at just 3,000 jobs total created from all of her announcements. There is NO WAY any new mines are going to come online in the next 4 years as a result of this weeks job strategy announcements.This weeks travelling sideshow was nothing more than an opportunity for Christy Clark to to give the illusion something was being done, when in reality it was not.
Each apperarance should have been prefaced with an announcement that stated, "The following is a taxpayer paid commercial message for Christry Clark and the BC Liberal government.
Each apperarance should have been prefaced with an announcement that stated, "The following is a taxpayer paid commercial message for Christry Clark and the BC Liberal government.
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