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_ people who had questions for the'federal election hopefuls at the Jan. 11 all candi-
, dates meeting held at the. REM Lee Theatre.

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‘uses “best, practices”: with
the . environ-. '

” he said. ;

regards to’

_ney Bogart, 16, and Emily’
Ottens, 15, who all attend |
» Thornhill “Jr.
. School, said they had at- «.
terided the all candidates fo-" ..
rum at Caledonia earlier that
day and came out. that night .
_ because “we got’ ‘really. ir into .

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a few exceptions.«

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of rude to the other. candi-
dates,” Ottens said. =

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points were more related to

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forum so he could speak
to the ‘candidates and learn

the next best thing to a poli-.

tician.is a pedophile.

“We don't trust them,

(politicians). ”

. He said Brienesse was —
very clear and he liked what .

he had to say. :
Cullen was good, Liberal
‘Gordon Stamp-Vincent not

so good and Christian Heri- -

‘Secondary.

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‘Taylor held the same‘opin- ,

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"THE PROPOSED Tulsequah Chief gold, copper, eo and

' zinc mine project near the Taku River south of Atlin, B.C.
~. proved! to be the starting point of much debate between Mike
* Scott and Nathan Cullen at the Jan. 11-all candidates forum ©

here.
- ‘Conservative : candidate Scott accused incumbent NDP

“MP Cullen of trying to derail the project after it had success- |
fully completed years of rigorous federal and provincial en-
_ vironmental. assessments, but Cullen countered that wasn’t»
: ‘the reason he opposed the project.:

Cullen .says_his objections to the project. ‘going ahead

as ‘stemmed from the company, Redfern Resources Ltd., not

.. having the capital to proceed ' with operating the mine.

The company was' given the green light to go ahead un-"

7 der the Canadian Environmental Assessment Act in July of
2005. uo

“You called a news conference after the mine was finally
_ given approval. after 10 years: of review and you said, sir,
that the mine was being rushed along, the approval was be-
ing rushed along and called on the g government to cancel the

approval and you said there was inadequate consultation and

frankly I ‘think that’s a. game of heads I win, tails: you lose,
-and. it’s no good for us,” Scott told Cullen. .

Cullen defending his decision to speak out agai ‘the
mine.

“The week prior to ‘the mine getting its approval, the own-
ers and operators of the mine said they didn’t have the funds
available, the market was not reacting to them. in. order to
pursue the mine,’ ’ Cullen’ replied, = 9, /.

- “One of the conditions. that the federal ‘government uses
in approving a mine is, that it’ s financially viable, So a week

- expand the existing resource base,”

’ eral government comes forward and says go ahead and do
it, which leads to some suspicion over the process that was
“involved,” Cullen said.
_ He added the project has become a divisive issue for peo-
ple living in the smal] community ‘of Atlin which would be
the starting point for a road leading to the mine location. _
Redfern Resources announced in May 2005 that it had
suspended a feasibility study update of the project because: ~
of higher than anticipated preliminary estimates of capital

and operating costs.

» “In order to make the project financeable Redfern i is cur-
rently evaluating opportunities to reduce these costs ‘and to
read a July 28, 2005
press release signed off by the company *s president Terence
Chandler. ;

Though Cullen didn’t not talk about his environmental
stance at the all candidates meeting regarding the proposed,
mine he made his position clear in a letter to the editor in the
March 23, 2005 issue of The Terrace Standard. .,

“My position is that any economic development, including
mines, that goes through a meaningful consultation process
with local citizens, including First Nations, and that will not
negatively impact the environment, is a good investment.

“In the case of the Tulsequah Chief mine, the consultation
that took place showed that building a road in this pristine
wilderness would irreparably impact sensitive salmon runs

and effectively. wipe out a caribou herd that the Taku First. , -
_ Nation relies on,” he wrote.

‘Redfern Resources still has its approval to to go ahead with

the project and jit.continues to look for additional money - ©

while seeking to expand the existing resource base. Work is:
expected to’ resume in ‘June. = | we

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