by dewolfe001 | Mar 25, 2014 | Clayoquot Mining Ban, FOCS in the Media, General News
Here’s a 2-page update on the aquatic impacts of a potential Fandora gold mine in south Clayoquot Sound. In short: possible Acid Mine Drainage and heavy metals leaching, with significant deleterious effects on marine life for decades or centuries after the mine...
by webmaster | May 29, 2013 | Clayoquot Mining Ban, General News
A vigorous rally outside Imperial Metals’ AGM on 29 May brought the message loud and clear to the company’s shareholders: People do not want a mine in Clayoquot Sound. With speakers from Ahousat First Nation, Neskonlith Secwepmce First Nation, Wilderness...
by webmaster | May 27, 2013 | Clayoquot Mining Ban, General News
Imperial Metals is planning two mining projects in Clayoquot Sound. Catface Mountain copper-molybdenum mine is a mountain-top removal scheme that must be stopped before it is submitted to the environmental review process. Fandora, a potential gold mine, would be at...
by webmaster | Feb 20, 2013 | Clayoquot Mining Ban, General News
MiningWatch Canada, Friends of Clayoquot Sound, David Suzuki Foundation and Rivers Without Borders have released a list of Top 40 Mining Reforms urgently needed in BC in order to limit the destructiveness of mining on the environment and communities, and to reduce...
by webmaster | Nov 22, 2012 | Clayoquot Mining Ban, General News
Imperial Metals, a Vancouver-based mining company (also the proponent of a contentious copper mine proposal on Catface Mountain in Ahousaht territory), is keen to explore the potential of re-opening the old Fandora gold mine in the Tranquil Valley, just 20 km...
by webmaster | May 31, 2012 | Clayoquot Mining Ban, General News
Today, the cultural landscape of Clayoquot Sound honours a diverse array of ethnicities and backgrounds, each with unique and significant teachings and insights waiting to be shared. It has been more than two hundred years since these lands have become co-inhabited...
