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Why Cuba, Why BC - radio interviews
June 12 2009 | | Winds of Change, UVIC
http://web.mac.com/bandcroft/Relative_Newz/Podcast/Entries/2009/6/11_Why_Cuba__Why_BC.html
Winds of Change Radio program
Here is a radio interview with Amy Crook from the Centre for Science in Public Participation is interviewed. (Second half of the interview)
Topics covered include:
-LandKeepers – website resource for BC First Nations
-Canadian mining companies
-Mining’s history – environmental, social and cultural impacts
-Modern mining – open pits, waste rock piles, tailings dams
-Need for mining – uses in every day life; 80-90% of gold is used in jewelry
-BC mining produces gold, copper, and other metals, including base metals and coal
-Room for improvement in the current mining system – government support for industry including the Geoscience program and the online staking system; the free entry system allows anyone to make a mineral claim; current law favours mineral title holders over other land uses
-Fish Lake, the Tsilhqot’in Nation, the Prosperity Mine, Taseko Mines – use of lakes for mine waste disposal and Canadian federal law loop hole
-First Nations rights and title
-Current process for mine approval and long term waste management issues
-Research on how mine’s predict their environmental impacts versus what their actual impacts turned out to be – 85% of predictions wrong
-Orphaned and abandoned mines – legacy issues and communities left with the costs
-Many proposed mines in BC – what can the public do?
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