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To: LoneClone who wrote (40724)	5/22/2007 1:54:22 PM
From: E. Charters	Read Replies (1) of 78422

In fact the Tatenshini is not that sensitive. The Salmon in that river are innured to very high levels of copper that would kill trout back east. If you don't hunt grizzly or their game, they won't die. Dall sheep stay far away from humans, and so do cougar. They would not be affected. You could not climb a Dall sheep habitat if your life depended on it. The whole sensitive water issue was based on IF they had a catastrophic earthquake and IF the tailings pond slid into the river and IF it was high enough in copper to make a difference. Which was never modeled for the site at all. It was just arm waving. And anyway as I pointed out they could have made it a non-issue by proper planning. So the envi folks were talking about a 1 in one million event over a ten thousand year period. What about building a skyscraper in San franciso? What about farm fishing salmon? What about drilling for oil in Saudi Arabia? You could say there is 100 times the chance of disaster there over a tailings pond slide. They want a much higher standard for mines where nobody is going to get hurt and the damage to flora and fauna is moot even, than in public projects where ten thousands people use a bridge every day. Do they worry about the damage to molluscs if the Bay Area suspension bridge collapses? Apparently not, but they argue if 100,000 tons of tailings goes into the Tatenshini in 5000 years it is a disaster of horrendous magnitude.. no way the whole thing is going in.. but did they model what would happen anyway if a quake of that magnitude happened, without the mine there? The whole river could be blocked by naturally occurring high-copper surface rocks.. the long term disaster thing is just hooey... we cannot ask any project to operate under more than a 100 year plan for one obvious reasons that nothing else we do is planned that way.. and probably needn't be.. Young Caribou, in dire fright of possible mine activity and obviously irreparably environmentally impacted, quizzes photographer as to his development intentions. The could remove the building and hide the dump under earth so that in 20 years after closure, you would need a GPS and a 1" to 20 foot map to find the site again. EC<:-}

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