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Longtime lakecity resident and business owner Dick Ford voices his support for Mount Polley Mine while April Thomas (right) awaits her turn to express her opposition to a mine restart. More than 300 people attended a public meeting Wednesday night as part of a public consultation process in which the mine is seeking a temporary restart, as well as a permit to discharge treated mine water into the Quesnel Lake watershed.
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The majority of the approximately 300 people who attended the Mount Polley Mine community meeting in Williams Lake Wednesday indicated they believe the mine should restart. The meeting, which took place at the Gibraltar Room and saw a
standing-room only crowd, marks the next phase of a public consultation process in which the company is seeking a temporary restart of the mine and a permit to discharge as much as six million cubic metres of treated water into the surrounding watershed annually. During the question and answer period, whenever someone said they wanted the mine re-opened or
praised Imperial Metal’s response to date, the crowd erupted into loud applause, whoops and hollers. United Steelworkers Union leader Paul French said the feelings of shock and disbelief workers had when the breach occurred on Aug. 4, eventually turned to anger with people pointing fingers. Now those feelings have reached a stage of fear, he said, referring to
potential job loss. “We need to fix the creek, fix the water and get back to where we were nine months ago,” French said. Several First Nations women, however, voiced vehement opposition to a restart. See MINE Page A3
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