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6 FEDERAL REVIEW PANEL PUBLIC HEARING
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13 PROCEEDINGS AT HEARING
14 COMMUNITY SESSION
15 April 1, 2010
16 Volume 14
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1 APPEARANCES
2 FEDERAL PANEL: 3 Mr. Robert (Bob) Connelly, Panel Chair 4 Mr. Bill Klassen, Panel Member Ms. Nalaine Morin, Panel Member 5
6 CANADIAN ENVIRONMENTAL ASSESSMENT AGENCY (CEAA):
7 Ms. Colette Spagnuolo Mr. Joseph Ronzio 8 Mr. Livain Michaud Ms. Cindy Parker 9 Ms. Carolyn Dunn Mr. Jaron Dyble 10 Ms. Lucille Jamault Ms. Patricia McKeage 11
12 APPLICANT 13 Keith Clark, Esq. (Counsel) ) For Taseko Mines Limited 14 Mr. Brian Battison ) Mr. Rod Bell-Irving ) 15 Mr. Scott Jones ) Ms. Katherine Gizikoff ) 16
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1 INTERESTED PARTIES AND PRESENTERS: (In order of appearance on the record): 2
3 Mr. David Williams ) Personal capacity
4 Mr. Wayne McCrory ) Personal capacity
5 Mr. Siegfried Reuter ) Personal capacity
6 Mr. James Lulua Senior ) Personal capacities Ms. Dinah Lulua ) 7 Ms. Mabel Solomon ) and family ) 8 Mr. Ronnie Solomon ) Personal capacity 9 (Through interpretation by ) Former Chief Roger William ) 10 Ms. Marty Solomon ) Personal capacity 11 Mr. Marvin William ) Personal capacity 12 (Through interpretation by ) Former Chief Roger William ) 13
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1 INDEX OF PROCEEDINGS
2 DESCRIPTION PAGE NO.
3 (PRAYER) 2303 (DRUMMING CEREMONY) 4 OPENING REMARKS BY THE CHAIRMAN: 2303 5 PRESENTATION BY MR. DAVID WILLIAMS: 2306 6 QUESTIONS BY TASEKO: 2351 7 QUESTIONS BY THE PANEL: 2353 8 PRESENTATION BY MR. WAYNE MCCRORY: 2356 9 QUESTIONS BY TASEKO: 2381 10 QUESTIONS BY THE PANEL: 2383 11 PRESENTATION BY MR. SIEGFRIED REUTER: 2389 12 PRESENTATION BY JAMES LULUA SENIOR, 2411 13 DINAH LULUA, MABEL SOLOMON, AND FAMILY:
14 PRESENTATION BY MR. RONNIE SOLOMON, AS 2426 INTERPRETED BY FORMER CHIEF ROGER 15 WILLIAM:
16 PRESENTATION BY MS. MARTY SOLOMON: 2429
17 PRESENTATION BY MR. MARVIN WILLIAM, AS 2431 TRANSLATED BY FORMER CHIEF ROGER 18 WILLIAM:
19 RESPONSE TO UNDERTAKING BY TASEKO: 2434
20 RESPONSE TO PROCEEDINGS IN GENERAL BY 2436 TASEKO: 21 CLOSING COMMENTS BY CHIEF BAPTISTE: 2448 22 CLOSING REMARKS BY THE CHAIRMAN: 2451 23 (PRAYER) 2453 24 (DRUMMING CEREMONY) (PROCEEDINGS CLOSED AT 1:14 P.M.) 25
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1 (PRAYER)
2 (DRUMMING CEREMONY)
3 CHIEF BAPTISTE: Good morning, everybody.
4 Of course, thanks again for coming to our fourth, and
5 to the Panel, it's the fourth and final day in our
6 community. To our community, this is not the final
7 day because we have not had enough time for all of our
8 People to be heard, and I hope that there will also be
9 time at the end for closing remarks, not only from the
10 Taseko Mines Limited but from the Xeni Gwet'in, so,
11 and I'll keep it short at that time.
12 (Aboriginal language spoken)
13 OPENING REMARKS BY THE CHAIRMAN:
14 Good morning, Chief Baptiste, Elders, First
15 Nation members, Ladies and Gentlemen, Taseko, the
16 Secretariat.
17 Thank you, first of all, for your opening
18 prayer and welcome into the Xeni Gwet'in territory,
19 Xeni Gwet'in community and into your traditional
20 territory.
21 Thank you also for the song reminding us of
22 the upcoming Easter.
23 We will begin shortly with our first speaker.
24 I have a few administrative matters to raise.
25 We've had quite a few exhibits yesterday and
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1 I will just go through the list again for
2 administrative reasons.
3 Exhibit 39 was a Presentation by Sean Nixon.
4 Exhibits 40 and 41, the slide show and map
5 provide by Shari Hughson.
6 Exhibits 42 and 43, Alex Lulua's Presentation
7 and the Google Earth images.
8 Exhibit 44, Presentation by Gene Cooper.
9 Exhibit 45, the photos of the daycare program
10 activities provided by Suzie Setah.
11 Exhibit 46, a poster provided by Margaret and
12 Julianne Lulua.
13 And Exhibit 47, a presentation also by the
14 same two people.
15 Exhibit 48 was the B.C. Provincial Revenue
16 Sharing Agreement provided by Taseko.
17 Exhibit 49 was the Potato Mountain
18 Presentation.
19 Exhibit 50, the Tsilhqot'in Sacred Knowledge
20 Presentation.
21 Exhibit 51, a photo of the map locating
22 Potato Mountain.
23 Exhibit 52, a presentation by Alice William.
24 And we had -- sorry, Exhibit 53 -- no, just
25 an error there.
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1 We had one undertaking by Margaret Lulua to
2 provide a copy of the Xeni Gwet'in Framework
3 Agreement.
4 So that concludes the administrative
5 arrangements from yesterday, administrative matters
6 from yesterday.
7 In terms of this morning, we'll begin shortly
8 with our first speaker.
9 I will just indicate the names of people who
10 had registered some time ago, I believe, for this
11 morning's presentation.
12 In order:
13 Mr. David Williams.
14 Mr. Wayne McCrory.
15 Jim and Diana Lulua.
16 And Siegfried Reuter.
17 And we have possibly Joanne Kimmel-Annshendy
18 (phonetic).
19 We also have an exhibit later which is a
20 recorded or at least an exhibit that will be entered
21 into the record which is a recorded interview by Mabel
22 William.
23 In terms of the morning, we will break about
24 roughly about 10:30, a short break. We will complete
25 the presentations around 12:30 to allow Taseko to
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1 respond with their concluding remarks following the
2 sessions here in the Nemiah Valley.
3 I think they need about half an hour, I
4 understand, to respond.
5 We will be closing at about 1 o'clock. And
6 following the traditions here in the community, I
7 understand we'll have a closing ceremony as well.
8 That concludes the opening remarks for this
9 morning.
10 I would just hope that or would ask if those
11 who are speaking are able to summarize the extent they
12 can their comments this morning so we can ensure that
13 we hear all of the speakers listed. And we may have
14 time for a few others if there is room later in the
15 morning.
16 So with that, I'll turn to our first speaker,
17 Mr. David Williams, please.
18 PRESENTATION BY MR. DAVID WILLIAMS:
19 MR. D. WILLIAMS: (Aboriginal language spoken).
20 Good morning. My name is David Williams. I
21 am the President of Friends of the Nemaiah Valley.
22 And I'd like to thank our hosts here today,
23 the people of Xeni Gwet'in, Chief, Council, Elders and
24 members of the public, many, many friends here today,
25 and the representatives from Taseko Mines, of course.
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1 This is a little bit like the CBC show the
2 Dragon's Den, except it's Taseko Mines here today with
3 the bad business idea.
4 Friends of Nemaiah Valley is a not-for-profit
5 society. We have an all-volunteer board of nine
6 members, four of whom are landowners in this area, and
7 we have many friends from all over the world.
8 We have several protocols with the Xeni
9 Gwet'in First Nations Government and we work closely
10 with them on many enterprises.
11 Our mandate is to protect the environment of
12 the Nemiah Valley and the surrounding area. And as
13 part of this, we support the Xeni Gwet'in Rights and
14 Title case.
15 We do scientific research. We support a wild
16 horse ranger program for the ?Elegesi Qiyus Wild Horse
17 Preserve. And we have educational programs.
18 Through the Xeni Gwet'in committee, we were
19 instrumental in bringing the First Voices Program to
20 the community.
21 We believe in and support culturally
22 appropriate economic developments, and we have dome
23 some environmental rehabilitation following the 2003
24 fire. And that was to rehabilitate some of the many
25 fire guards that were put in place at that time.
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1 That sums up what we do. I'm going to try
2 and move along quickly because I have been asked to be
3 as quick as I can. And the first thing I want to do
4 is to present a petition.
5 It's from a website operated by one of our
6 vice-presidents, Wolfgang Zilker. It's to protect
7 Fish Lake, Teztan Biny, website.
8 And the petition has a preamble which says:
9 "Teztan Biny is part of the
10 Tsilhqot'in homeland and the
12 watershed. At Teztan, Nabas and
13 Jididzay, Tsilhqot'in families
14 have hunted, trapped and fished
15 and gathered medicines in their
16 traditional way of life for
17 decades, just like their ancestors
18 the Esketemc did before them.
19 Today Teztan is still a
20 beautiful place where they go to
21 practice their culture and
22 preserve their way of life. Since
23 settlers came into the land, they
24 have worked hard to protect their
25 culture and their way of life from
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1 settlers' destructive ways.
2 Now, Taseko Mines Limited
3 wants to build a huge mine there.
4 They want to cut the trees, tear
5 up the land and make a lake of
6 poisoned waters there forever
7 destroying this lake.
8 We do not want to see Teztan
9 Biny, Fish Lake, poisoned and the
10 lands and waters poisoned and
11 destroyed for short-term gain, we
12 want to see it preserved for our
13 lives, for our children, and for
14 our grandchildren after them.
15 We all say 'no' to this mine
16 and the destruction of the land
17 and our clean water resource."
18 And this is a petition that has been signed,
19 people had to actually go to the website to sign it.
20 There are 1,658 names on this website. And I will
21 submit that as part of my presentation on behalf of
22 Wolfgang Zilker.
23 And simply ask that if this is made public,
24 that the e-mail addresses on it be removed.
25 THE CHAIRMAN: Okay, we will, Mr. Williams,
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1 we'll include that as an exhibit and honour that
2 request.
3 MR. WILLIAMS: Thank you. And I just want
4 to submit this as well to the Members of the Panel.
5 It's a picture, and I want to ensure you that
6 it's not an attempt to compromise the Panel's
7 Secretariat, but simply to show that Fish Lake indeed
8 does have really very succulent, fat, and healthy
9 trout in it.
10 Thank you. I will launch into my submission,
11 and I will summarize as best I can.
12 Initially it was the potential sociocultural
13 impacts of the proposed Prosperity Mine in the Nemiah
14 Valley, and it's followed by a Wilderness Tourism
15 Operators Questionnaire and Responses.
16 I shortened it somewhat following Shari
17 Hughson's presentation yesterday because I originally
18 had a letter from her summarizing many of the things
19 she presented yesterday, and so I don't need to go
20 over that.
21 My purpose here is to explain why culture
22 matters, both locally and within a global context, how
23 it will be endangered by the Project before us and
24 what that will mean for the people of this valley.
25 Wade Davis in his later book The Wayfinders:
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1 Why Ancient Wisdom Matters in the Modern World, also
2 the subject of the Massey Lectures, writing as a
3 member of the dominant industrial culture says:
4 "The myriad cultures of the world
5 are not failed attempts at
6 modernity let alone failed
7 attempts to be us. They are
8 unique expressions of the human
9 imagination and heart, unique
10 answers to a fundamental question:
11 What does it mean to be human and
12 alive? When asked this question,
13 the cultures of the world respond
14 in 7,000 different voices, and
15 these collectively comprise our
16 human repertoire for dealing with
17 all the challenges that will
18 confront us as a species over the
19 next 2500 generations, even as we
20 continue, this never-ending
21 journey."
22 Xeni Gwet'in Councillor Roger William has
23 said:
24 "To understand our present
25 determination to protect Teztan
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1 Biny from destruction, it is
2 necessary to follow the story of
3 the devastation that followed the
4 arrival of Europeans to our
5 territory. The story of our
6 struggle against the government's
7 of B.C. and Canada and the
8 desecration of our lands and
9 resources by these governments."
10 Another Tsilhqot'in friend, Trina
11 Setah-Phillips has written:
12 "As guardians of this land since
13 time immemorial, the message has
14 always been to protect the land
15 and ecosystem and keep it the way
16 it is and has been for future
17 generations. It needs to remain
18 that way because it is one of the
19 rare places in the world that has
20 fresh running water, pristine
21 wilderness and wildlife. If the
22 world keeps up its pace of
23 consumption of materials and
24 resources, it is going to run
25 itself dry."
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1 Just to give you an idea of how some of the
2 people here think, you've certainly heard enough of
3 that in the last few days, I'm sure.
4 In this, the International Year of
5 Biodiversity, there are many messages reaching us that
6 tell us we've gone too far down the road to
7 environmental and cultural loss, and unless we change
8 course, we will have so altered planetary climate that
9 all life will be endangered.
10 These messages come from ecologists, climate
11 scientists, labour unions, churches and from First
12 Nations Elders. And my immediate interest is in what
13 the Elders have to say, for it is their words and
14 thoughts, the loss of which confronts us here in this
15 room today.
16 Dr. Briony Penn, writing in the small
17 magazine Focus, tells us that a message from First
18 Nations Elders contained in a report entitled,
19 "Staying the Course, Staying Alive: Coastal First
20 Nations Fundamental Truths, Biodiversity Stewardship
21 and Sustainability."
22 This document is compiled from interviews
23 with Elders from Heiltsuk, Haida, and Namgis on the
24 central coast, Haida Gwaii, and north-eastern
25 Vancouver Island respectively.
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1 Through a discussion of stories and practices
2 that relate cultural connections to plants, animals
3 and places, these "Keepers of the Knowledge" came up
4 with some fundamental truths derived from living in
5 one place forever.
6 They say:
7 "We are all one and our lives are
8 interconnected. All life has
9 equal value and all plants and
10 animals have a life force. Our
11 traditional knowledge of
12 sustainable resource use and
13 management is reflected in our
14 intimate relationship with nature
15 and its predictable seasonal
16 cycles and indicators of renewal
17 of life and subsistence. We are
18 stewards of the land and sea from
19 which we live. We might say our
20 lakes as well. Knowing that our
21 health as people and our society
22 is intricately tied to the health
23 of the land and waters. We have a
24 responsibility to share and
25 support, to provide strength and
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1 make others stronger in order for
2 our world to survive."
3 And let me repeat that last sentence:
4 "We have a responsibility to share
5 and support, to provide strength
6 and make others stronger in order
7 for our world to survive."
8 They have a message.
9 So just how deep is this culture? How long
10 has it been that these insights have been held here?
11 John Sutton Lutz, in his soon to become
12 classic book, "Makuk: A New History of
13 Aboriginal-White Relations" says:
14 "Eight to ten thousand years ago,
15 before the rise of the great
16 empires of the Nile, long before
17 the rise of the classical Chinese
18 or Greek civilizations, and
19 millennia before Marco Polo
20 travelled the spice road across
21 Asia, Aboriginal Peoples set a
22 trade route that linked the
23 Pacific Coast to a vast portion of
24 North America."
25 Some of the descendants of those traders are
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1 in this room before you today. They represent an
2 ancient culture we can barely imagine. We should be
3 honoured. When they speak, we should listen.
4 Another speaker and author who has long
5 recognized the importance of First Nations voice is
6 John Ralston Saul. In September 2009, he delivered an
7 address at the 16th Literary Symposium in Seoul, South
8 Korea. Speaking of the environmental crisis that is
9 upon us, Ralston Saul said, again speaking as a member
10 of the dominant culture:
11 "We need to walk away from the
12 increasingly narrow and linear
13 approaches which dominate in our
14 way of writing and in an effect of
15 not communicating."
16 And I think yesterday we saw a case of not
17 communicating. And Mr. Battison was quite doing his
18 job trying to present job opportunities as how they
19 could be developed for a mining company and the mining
20 industry. And I watched the faces that were here in
21 the room and it was as if we had two languages. There
22 was no communication. I think you weren't being
23 heard. And I almost felt some compassion for Mr.
24 Battison at that time.
25 John Ralston Saul says:
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1 "We need to walk away from the
2 increasingly narrow and linear
3 approaches which dominate in our
4 ways of writing and, in an effect,
5 of not communicating. We need to
6 introduce other approaches to
7 languages which come from outside.
8 In Canada, we still have over 50
9 Aboriginal languages with a
10 growing and increasingly powerful
11 Indigenous population and yet many
12 of these languages are at risk of
13 disappearing..."
14 "I raise this because these
15 languages take a very different
16 approach to the relationship
17 between people and places.
18 Aboriginal languages do not use
19 the Western, theoretically
20 rational, device which separates
21 people from place in order to
22 establish that humans can be
23 levitated above the rest and
24 therefore have the right to do
25 what they wish to their physical
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1 surroundings. It is this rational
2 conceit which lies at the heart of
3 our environmental crisis. And our
4 literature has not successfully
5 challenged the deep assumptions of
6 the last half millennium, which
7 put us so firmly in charge of the
8 planet because we were above it.
9 Our interests can therefore be
10 seen intellectually as separate
11 from those of the planet."
12 "Aboriginal languages take a
13 different approach. In their
14 literature, their great poetic
15 sagas and their philosophy, they
16 see humans as an integrated piece
17 of the whole. Their's is not a
18 romantic idea or an old-fashioned
19 idea, these are ideas which are
20 re-emerging today as perfectly
21 modern and adapted to our time. I
22 can think of a few perfectly clear
23 concepts which make sense of where
24 we are. There's a Cree concept
25 called Witaskewin, which focuses
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1 on how humans must live within the
2 place. Or there is a Pacific
3 Coast idea, Tsawalk, in which the
4 world view is that everything is
5 one."
6 "... Aboriginal languages, one of
7 their strengths is that they are
8 still driven by the oral rather
9 than the written. It is the
10 written which has been so
11 effectively kidnapped by the
12 linear and the narrow specialist
13 dialects. This is particularly
14 troubling for so many who are
15 trapped within the written
16 literature. We are trapped within
17 a world where that same written
18 form has become the tool of
19 systems which cannot deal with the
20 environmental reality."
21 Allow me to try to convey what will be the
22 likely impact of Taseko's proposed Prosperity Mine on
23 the people who have called this area home for many
24 thousands of years since "time before memory" as the
25 term goes. And at first I want to be a little
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1 anecdotal and personal.
2 I am proud and honoured to be able call many
3 of the people of this valley, the Xeni Gwet'in, my
4 friends. It has been my privilege to work with them
5 for 10 years now in the struggle to have their Rights
6 and Title in their homeland recognized by government.
7 My own roots go back here quite a long way.
8 My native grandmother's People hail from
9 Lillooet country, a little more than a day's walk or
10 ride on horseback over the mountains to the south. My
11 pioneer land surveyor grandfather gave Mount Tsil?os
12 its colonial name, Tatlow, just over 100 years ago.
13 While on one of his several travels into the valley
14 when he was Inspector of Surveys for the Government of
15 British Columbia under Surveyor General Joseph Despard
16 Pemberton.
17 When I travel the Fraser River corridor up to
18 Tsilhqot'in and the Nemiah Valley and I reflect that
19 my own family history goes back in some small measure
20 thousands of years here. I never fail to be deeply
21 moved.
22 I also reflect what it must be like for Xeni
23 Gwet'in whose certain knowledge of this fact, much
24 greater than my own, is so profound; whose blood and
25 bone and flesh are so deeply of this land; whose
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1 memories and thoughts and dreams are so much a part of
2 it, indeed are indistinguishable from it. How must it
3 hurt them to envision its loss and destruction by an
4 invading culture that seems to have so little thought
5 for the long-term results of its actions, not on just
6 the land and all that the land sustains but on the
7 people who have lived from it for so long, people who
8 have devised a means of survival based on its health.
9 The thought of damage to the land and waters
10 on a scale such as that promised by this mine must be
11 deeply and spiritually wounding.
12 I'd like to talk about cultural loss.
13 Wade Davis chronicles the loss of cultures
14 and language viewed as an unprecedented global
15 phenomenon of our times. Like him, I see this as an
16 immense tragedy. And diversity is strength and
17 resilience. If one method of living on this planet
18 proves to have flaws, there'll be other answers to the
19 questions of survival here and perhaps better ones.
20 And here we have a people determined to
21 retain a culture and way of life that has worked with
22 them for a very long time. At every turn, they
23 demonstrate these fundamental truths derived from
24 living in one place forever. So many elements of that
25 culture survive in this valley. Walking the trails of
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1 these mountains and forests with friends like Rocky
2 Quilt, Rafael Williams and Norman William, I have come
3 to see that every plant, every stone and tree is known
4 and has value and is imbued with a significance for
5 life and survival that I can only describe as
6 spiritual.
7 Sitting around the table in my cabin with
8 Harry Setah and Laura, with Roger William and David
9 Setah, doing biological work in the field with Jessica
10 Setah and Wesley Alphonse, have given me insights into
11 a deep relationship, the plants and land and animals
12 and fish that I can only envy.
13 And I have lived and worked on the land all
14 my life, hunted and fished and walked many trails,
15 slept out in all weathers. Nevertheless, I feel
16 sometimes that my connection compared to theirs is
17 simply tenuous.
18 Teztan Biny is part of their land. Its loss
19 and all the other material losses caused by the
20 construction of this mine -- of water, of fish, plants
21 and animals -- will be as nothing compared to the
22 sense of spiritual loss the people of this valley will
23 experience should that place be destroyed.
24 The alien presence of the mine and an
25 overwhelming number of outside workers will cause
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1 cultural loss so great here as to constitute a
2 tragedy.
3 Yet, the culture here is strong. You've seen
4 examples of it in the last few days.
5 A few years ago, Friends of the Nemaiah
6 Valley were instrumental in bringing the First Voices
7 Program into the valley. A local committee of
8 educators, the Jeni Huten Committee was formed. They
9 enthusiastically endorsed and supported this
10 Provincial program that has proved so effective at
11 preserving and reinvigorating native languages in many
12 areas of the province.
13 Peter Brand, the visionary Provincial
14 Director of the program, tells me that of all the
15 communities he has visited around the province, none
16 has a more intact and functioning culture than the
17 Nemiah Valley Xeni Gwet'in.
18 Language, that precious cultural element that
19 expresses and reflects the soul of the people, is
20 resurgent here. You will be aware of that today. You
21 will see that many Elders still speak only their own
22 beautiful gentle sounding Tsilhqot'in language. The
23 language so many were taught to disparage and were
24 punished for speaking in the residential schools.
25 And now the young people too are learning
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1 their language. Once again, learning pride in the
2 language and, through it, their deep culture.
3 Nine years ago I spent a month working in the
4 bush on one of our wildlife projects with band member
5 Boise Williams and we talked a lot, and if you know
6 Boise you'll know that mainly Boise talked and I
7 listened. He told me many stories. At one point I
8 asked him if his children spoke Tsilhqot'in. He said,
9 no, he hadn't wanted them to learn anything but
10 English, they had to learn how to get along in
11 English.
12 I told him I thought that was a mistake. So
13 just last spring I asked Boise if he still felt that
14 way. Boise said he had changed. He saw a new
15 Tsilhqot'in pride coming about partly as a result of
16 the success of the court case for Rights and Title but
17 also for other reasons and he wished now that he had
18 taught his children their own native tongue.
19 Things are changing. It seems to me there's
20 a pride in a vibrant and proud culture being reborn
21 here and it is being reborn because there's enough of
22 it left in memory and custom that it can be reborn.
23 And there are reasons for that here.
24 And one is, of course, the relative isolation
25 of this community for such a long time. There was no
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1 road in, remember, until the early 1970s, and I would
2 like to return to that a little later.
3 But in this way the community was cushioned
4 from some of the worst aspects of rapid cultural
5 contact with an alien culture. Another reason has
6 been truly inspired leadership which I see continues
7 to this day.
8 Culture is more than language. And Roger
9 William has said in one of his submissions to this
10 very Panel:
11 "Cultural memory and ceremonies are
12 important to the Tsilhqot'in. We
13 use our histories and personal
14 experiences to balance, to
15 understand and improve our lives
16 and our environment. Our
17 ceremonies have been passed down
18 through stories told by our
19 Elders, provide an ancient source
20 of psychological and spiritual
21 strength. If the Tsilhqot'in
22 maintain and strengthen our sense
23 of our language, culture and world
24 view, we will be better able to
25 share our knowledge with the
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1 larger society."
2 And there's that theme again of sharing an
3 important knowledge for the larger society.
4 "Many people are in search of
5 ceremonies and efficient ways to
6 deal with present environmental
7 problems and the Tsilhqot'in are
8 among those who have, in their
9 care, important knowledge which
10 has been developed, tested and
11 proven over the centuries."
12 "Our oral Constitution, Laws and
13 Policies were developed through
14 many generations of historic
15 events, rituals and stories."
16 "There are laws and rituals which
17 affect individuals prior to their
18 birth, at their birth, and during
19 their childhood, adulthood and old
20 age."
21 And so on.
22 The yearly -- everything has a ritual. I
23 particularly like this:
24 "A hunter begins the day with a
25 purification ceremony and makes a
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1 request for a successful hunt and
2 calls upon the ancestors. A
3 successful hunt ends with a
4 Thanksgiving ceremony where food
5 is shared with ancestors. Elders
6 pray all the time. They pray
7 while riding a horse, while
8 gardening, walking, resting,
9 eating and travelling in a
10 vehicle."
11 These then are some of the elements that must
12 endure if a culture is to survive and we observe that
13 here again. They come out of a profound relationship
14 with the land. Events that disturb or rupture that
15 relationship threaten the culture.
16 This is indeed the norm with Indigenous
17 cultures everywhere.
18 And as Ralston Saul has pointed out, this is
19 unfortunately not the case with the dominant Western
20 culture. This is the cause of so much
21 misunderstanding between Tsilhqot'in People and what
22 I'll choose to call "the settler society".
23 What a shame if we not only do not take
24 advantage of Roger's offer to actually share the
25 insights of his culture, but continue to commit acts
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1 that will destroy it.
2 There are elements of tragedy in this
3 cultural dichotomy and misunderstanding. For
4 inevitably, the dominant society cannot, if it cannot
5 or will not learn to recognize the value inherent in
6 the Indigenous culture, it will destroy it.
7 And as I've tried to demonstrate, by doing
8 so, we may have lost the very insights that would have
9 prevented us from doing the things we will keep on
10 doing until we have destroyed the very elements of the
11 planet required to sustain life itself.
12 These are the things that I know the Elders
13 talk about and worry about.
14 It is difficult now to imagine how remote
15 this community was before the road came in, a scant 35
16 years ago. It took three days or more by wagon to go
17 into Williams Lake to purchase supplies. And again I
18 just have a brief anecdote.
19 I remember meeting an Elderly couple with a
20 wagon and team in 1967 near Hanceville. My father who
21 was with me was thrilled to meet Cassimir Billy who
22 had worked with his father back at the turn of the
23 century. Cassimir described my grandfather as a man
24 who "walked like a bugger". And I sometimes like to
25 think that I walk like that in the bush sometimes,
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1 too, like my grandfather who would cover up to 50
2 miles in one day! I don't quite do that anymore.
3 Telephone service only arrived here after the turn of
4 the 21st Century.
5 Nemiah is still not on the BC Hydro grid.
6 These choices and resistance to service, they
7 are not by chance. They are an attempt by Xeni
8 Gwet'in to protect their way of life. They have gone
9 to war to do so.
10 A long tradition of warfare against those who
11 would invade and occupy, both other First Nations and
12 European, is well-established.
13 And you are confronted with that noble
14 tradition practised by all sovereign peoples
15 everywhere here today. Now they choose to do it
16 through the written word and the Courts, but that is
17 their tradition.
18 I think it is fair to say that people in this
19 community are in a state of recovery. Because of the
20 fundamental underlying strength of the culture, they
21 are able to do so, yet still some young people are in
22 crisis. Since the road came in 35 years ago, many of
23 the ills of the age have come here. A culture already
24 at risk because of residential school abuse and a
25 colonial era that disenfranchised people and took them
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1 off the land to be confined in, what I have called
2 concentration camps, called "Indian Reserves", had
3 already taken a profound hit if they endured as a
4 people must.
5 And now at this time all the people of the
6 Nemiah Valley are experiencing a state of cultural
7 stress as a result of a relentless and I have to say
8 at times vicious campaign by the Williams Lake Chamber
9 of Commerce and the local media to have this mine
10 built.
11 Such stress is not limited to the Xeni
12 Gwet'in community, however. Non-native settlers and
13 business people in this valley, and I'll be showing
14 you a questionnaire in a few minutes, are experiencing
15 similar levels of stress to the Xeni Gwet'in.
16 These are settlers who have come here because
17 they respect and value the land and the way the people
18 whose traditional home it is have always protected it
19 from the very things this mine will bring to the
20 community.
21 So appended to this submission is a
22 questionnaire that reveals the concern of those
23 settlers who own business here. Their replies to the
24 questions and the comments they have made to us reveal
25 in stark detail the brutal fact this mine will bring
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1 an end to their way of life as well. None of them are
2 able to see that the mine will bring benefits that can
3 begin to offset or even minimally mitigate the
4 environmental and social disruption it will cause.
5 Now, I did here talk a little bit about what
6 Shari said and I'm going to skip it because she made
7 such a profound and important statement yesterday that
8 I know you heard, that I really don't think I need to
9 repeat it. And I know time is limited.
10 I just want to -- one paragraph that she
11 appended to the end of the letter, she sent to me, I
12 say:
13 "What then of the direct social
14 costs of inserting a camp of four
15 to six hundred transient men,
16 (mostly men), into a community of
17 fewer than 500 people of whom
18 about 300 are Xeni Gwet'in Band
19 Members."
20 There are about 400 Xeni Gwet'in Band Members
21 but they don't all live here at one time.
22 Shari says:
23 "Unfortunately, we believe the
24 social impacts of the Fish Lake
25 Mine on the community will not
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1 only reverse the progress we have
2 made but that it will impact the
3 community in such a negative
4 manner that it will not be able to
5 recover. The influence of a large
6 number of transient people, new
7 residents, capital services, and
8 an economy based outside their
9 control, will complicate the
10 mental health issue and hinder the
11 social recovery that has been
12 started here. We believe the
13 social impact of the mine will be
14 increased mental health issues,
15 addictions, violence, abuse, and
16 crime in the community."
17 I want to repeat what has been said.
18 Young people here are already at risk.
19 Alcohol and drugs are a worrisome factor. Can you
20 guarantee that the camp will be free of these
21 elements? And, of course, I don't believe you can.
22 What of the potential for sexual abuse and
23 the violence? There was a long and disturbing history
24 of large mining camps placed next to native villages
25 everywhere on the planet. It's not always been a
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1 happy picture. And I don't believe Canada has the
2 best record in this regard. And I see no reason to
3 think things will be that different here.
4 Taseko has said the miners will be kept at
5 the camp during working hours and they will be there
6 for three to four days at a time. After that they can
7 go home to their families, by inference in Williams
8 Lake, and despite the best intentions of Taseko, many
9 of those men will be single men who will choose to
10 stay in the area on their days off. Some will seek to
11 exploit the opportunities for recreation and social
12 life they will find here. The company has no control
13 over that.
14 They will hunt in the fall, go fishing,
15 though not in Teztan Biny or Nabas, they will impact
16 the land with mechanized vehicles like ATVs, 4x4s and
17 snowmobiles in winter. They will party. Sometimes
18 impressional young Xeni Gwet'in may join them. I'm
19 sure they will. I believe it is not too strong a
20 word, strong to use the word they will be "corrupted".
21 We have already seen from some of the
22 comments in the local media that there are racist and
23 aggressive attitudes that may very well translate into
24 that camp.
25 Taseko has not done enough to mitigate these
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1 attitudes and indeed appears to, to some extent,
2 exacerbate them by raising expectations this mine will
3 go ahead against many indications, not least of them
4 legal, to the contrary.
5 Tsilhqot'in People have always fought to
6 protect the land that sustains them. Tough and
7 resilient, they are now once again called upon to do
8 this, just as they have appeared to have won a great
9 court victory.
10 They know that should this mine go ahead with
11 its massive impact on the land and on them, their
12 culture and way of life will be imperilled as never
13 before.
14 So it's no wonder that trust is at such a low
15 ebb.
16 I would like to end this part of my
17 presentation with an anecdote from my own experience.
18 Last November, I had the opportunity to spend
19 time climbing an extinct volcano on an island in
20 Vanuatu in the South Pacific with a paramount Chief
21 and Elder who was my guide. We spent the better part
22 of a day together. We discussed many things and
23 became friends over the course of that day and
24 "Kenneth" revealed much of the wisdom of his people to
25 me. His was a "kastom" village where the Chiefs,
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1 through their people, controlled all land use.
2 Control was at the local level traditionally, and
3 since independence from a British/French Condominium
4 in 1980, it had stayed there. He said that all value,
5 all truth came out of the relationship to the land.
6 Anything that hurt or destroyed the land would not be
7 tolerated and just would not happen.
8 When I told "Kenneth" how things were done in
9 my country, what could happen in Nemiah with the
10 destruction of a sacred lake over the objections of
11 the people whose land this had been for thousands of
12 years, he was horrified. "Such a thing could never
13 happen here for that would be the end of our people,"
14 he said, "We could never allow it. I will pray for
15 your land and your people."
16 Now, I just want to move on to the
17 questionnaire which I did. I'm not a scientist. I
18 have an undergraduate degree in Anthropology. I've
19 done some statistics, but this is not a scientific
20 questionnaire, but it was the best I could do given
21 the resources I had to hand.
22 This questionnaire that follows helps clarify
23 an important point that's largely been lost sight of
24 in the debate over the merits and otherwise of the
25 Fish Lake Mine. It is not only First Nations that are
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1 opposed to this development. Business interests of
2 long standing with investments in the area are almost
3 without exception opposed to the mine and the changes
4 it will bring. The questionnaire makes that clear.
5 But there are other settlers here as well, some of
6 whom are ranchers, some professional trappers. Many
7 of these people are friends or acquaintances of mine
8 and strong supporters of Friends of the Nemaiah
9 Valley.
10 And they are here because they find here a
11 way of life and an unspoilt environment that they can
12 find almost nowhere else.
13 They have friends within the Xeni Gwet'in
14 community. And they dread and oppose this mine. This
15 is their backyard. And many resent the presumptions
16 of a noisy minority of self-interested individuals in
17 Williams Lake who assume that this is their backyard
18 to do with as they will.
19 We conducted a telephone questionnaire of
20 tourism operators in the Nemiah Valley and area
21 between February the 19th and the 26th of 2010. And
22 the purpose was to determine operators' opinions and
23 concerns about the development of the mine and the
24 related infrastructure and activities in their area
25 and anticipated impacts on their business.
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1 We canvassed lodge owners and operators,
2 guide outfitters, trappers, river rafters, those
3 running B&Bs, and those involved in planning and
4 developing First Nations cultural and eco-tourism
5 operations. Fifteen operators in all were identified
6 and 13 were interviewed.
7 Two non-resident managers chose not to
8 respond. Some of those interviewed had been in
9 business here for many years, up to 60, and most were
10 family operated businesses.
11 What those who responded had in common was a
12 love of the land, a concern for the environment, and a
13 desire to retain the wilderness quality of the area
14 that is essential to their businesses.
15 While most sought to be fair by acknowledging
16 that society needs metals and jobs mining provides,
17 without exception, they were very worried about the
18 impacts of this mine. None were comfortable that this
19 was the right place for a large mine such as that
20 proposed.
21 And none thought it was right to sacrifice
22 the lakes to a mine. Several said they would be put
23 out of business by it.
24 It is clear that the proposed financial
25 benefits of the mine must be set against the financial
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1 loss of a long-term sustainable industry that is
2 growing.
3 And at the end of the questionnaire, we
4 provide all their comments without attribution. And
5 that made the list of comments quite comprehensive.
6 I say that the names of all those responding
7 to this questionnaire will be kept strictly
8 confidential and data derived from the responses will
9 be collated and presented to the Federal Review Panel.
10 "PREAMBLE: Taseko's Prosperity
11 Mine, as proposed, would develop a
12 gold and copper deposit at the
13 headwaters of the Taseko River and
14 would involve the destruction of
15 Fish Lake, Little Fish Lake and
16 will contaminate Onion Lake. The
17 mine could operate for up to 33
18 years. By Taseko's own estimate,
19 it will require up to 800 workers
20 during the construction period and
21 an estimated 450 permanent workers
22 plus 60 contractors to operate
23 throughout this period."
24 The first question:
25 "#1. How concerned are you that
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1 increased mechanized recreational
2 use of the area will negatively
3 affect the wilderness qualities
4 that your business requires?"
5 Remember, there are 13 people -- 13
6 operations.
7 "a) Very concerned.
8 b) Somewhat concerned.
9 c) Not concerned."
10 "Very concerned, 12.
11 Somewhat concerned, 1.
12 Not concerned, none."
13 "#2 During the first year of
14 construction, Taseko estimates
15 there'll be an average of 250
16 vehicles per day on the
17 Taseko/Whitewater Road and this is
18 estimated to drop to a hundred
19 roundtrips per day after that.
20 Large concentrate ore trucks are
21 estimated to average 15 roundtrips
22 per day. How concerned are you
23 that increased industrial and
24 other traffic on the
25 Taseko/Whitewater Road will affect
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1 your business?
2 a) Very concerned, 13.
3 b) Somewhat concerned, none.
4 c) Not concerned, none."
5 "#3 How much of a threat do you
6 feel the proposed Prosperity Mine
7 is to wildlife and to wildlife
8 habitat in your area?
9 a) Very serious threat, 11.
10 b) Somewhat of a threat, 2.
11 c) Not much of a threat or
12 not a threat at all,
13 none."
14 Fourth out of five questions:
15 "#4. How much of a threat do you
16 feel the proposed Prosperity Mine
17 is to trout and salmon fishing and
18 given that the mine is in the
19 Fraser River watershed do you feel
20 it is a threat to the Chilko and
21 Fraser salmon runs?
22 a) Very serious threat, 11.
23 b) Somewhat of a threat, 2.
24 c) Not much of a threat,
25 none.
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1 d) Not a threat at all,
2 none."
3 "#5. Overall how much of a threat
4 do you feel the proposed
5 Prosperity Mine poses to your
6 business?
7 a) Very serious threat, 10.
8 b) Somewhat of a threat, 2.
9 c) not much of a threat, 1."
10 And then I asked:
11 "#6 Are there any further
12 comments you would like to make?"
13 And here's a comprehensive list of comments:
14 - noise pollution, air
15 pollution, air quality and
16 increased activity generally will
17 disturb wildlife;
18 - people coming here want
19 pristine wilderness and we will
20 lose it;
21 - traditional cultural
22 activities will be disrupted;
23 - traffic will kill wildlife
24 and create noise pollution;
25 - it will make it more
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1 dangerous for the community
2 driving to get supplies;
3 - the watershed will be
4 affected and animals drinking
5 contaminated water may be
6 affected;
7 - I'm very worried about salmon
8 runs;
9 - an industrial zone is
10 antithetical to the pristine
11 wilderness that our clients come
12 for;
13 - increased traffic will make
14 our trips longer and the road will
15 deteriorate;
16 - the tranquillity here will be
17 gone;
18 - we are very worried about
19 increased drugs and alcohol in the
20 community and about dangers to
21 women and young people in the
22 community;
23 - this will have a huge, huge
24 impact. It will affect our homes
25 and livelihood, our way of life.
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1 We have been here 60 years;
2 - traffic will have a huge
3 impact. It will be very
4 dangerous;
5 - our business has already been
6 very much impacted.
7 - we are worried about noise,
8 dust, light pollution, drilling
9 and blasting, the amount of
10 activity generally and emissions;
11 - the whole nature of the area
12 will be changed;
13 - we can't sell an industrial
14 zone to tourists;
15 - the area will be devastated;
16 - nearby lodges will likely go
17 out of business;
18 - we sell wilderness and that
19 does not include 800 miners;
20 - it will be a slow death for
21 our businesses;
22 - it impacts pack trips as well
23 as we will see lights at night and
24 it will no longer be a starry
25 landscape, it will be change
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1 forever but tourism could be here
2 forever;
3 - there will be industrial
4 noise and quads everywhere;
5 - animals like grizzlies,
6 sheep, goats will disappear and
7 will be killed off;
8 - even mining exploration is
9 destructive. Mining companies
10 have not obeyed road closures and
11 they are not enforced by
12 governments.
13 - what the company says will be
14 different from what it does.
15 And I'm not saying this. This is what other
16 people are saying.
17 - containment dams always leak;
18 - this is the worst possible
19 thing for our business and it will
20 be devalued over time with no
21 resale value;
22 - we are concerned about quad
23 use and the long-term safety of
24 the containment dam;
25 - increased traffic is very
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1 dangerous, extremely;
2 - we got no help previously
3 from government when we complained
4 about logging truck traffic;
5 - there will be displacement of
6 wildlife locally and cannot say
7 elsewhere, but we regret it;
8 - the onus is on Taseko to
9 prove that they can put it back in
10 a pristine state. Will the bears
11 and so on return? Locals won't
12 live to see it;
13 - containment dam is not
14 foolproof, so I'm concerned. If
15 it is a threat, then the mine
16 should not go through;
17 - if science is done right and
18 the Panel does due diligence, then
19 okay. I have some faith in the
20 Panel, but this must not be a
21 political decision.
22 - I'm concerned about noise and
23 light pollution but probably that
24 can be addressed, but this will
25 last for more than a lifetime;
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1 - if this is not done right,
2 this could be a total disaster.
3 It must not affect Fraser River
4 water quality and we should wait
5 until we can be sure it is done
6 properly;
7 - they can say no vehicles at
8 work, but they can't control what
9 happens on the weekends;
10 - I have seen other mines and
11 seen the mess they left. There is
12 a huge watershed at risk here, you
13 can't replicate a complex habitat
14 with an artificial pond;
15 - my concerns are primarily
16 environmental. This endangers too
17 much of a water system. There are
18 big valleys at Fish Lake for
19 families on vacation. It's a good
20 place for a small lodge;
21 - leave it alone. It's too
22 fragile an area, there will be too
23 much noise, lights at night,
24 blasts will shake the land and
25 frighten animals;
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1 - Fish Lake belongs to itself.
2 It's a little paradise, it must be
3 saved for itself and the future;
4 - it is not possible to do a
5 good job there;
6 - we are not necessarily
7 opposed but they must not cut
8 corners;
9 - nature must come first;
10 - we need to create provincial
11 revenue, but we must first protect
12 nature;
13 - this can be very bad for
14 tourism and our kind of business;
15 - access away from the mine in
16 other areas must be controlled;
17 - there are already many close
18 calls with logging trucks on the
19 road. This will be a huge safety
20 issue here with the traffic;
21 - this is grizzly territory and
22 they are being squeezed. It's
23 getting smaller;
24 - I'm very concerned about the
25 loss of the trout and spawning
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1 grounds for salmon whose numbers
2 are already down;
3 - I'm not opposed to mining as
4 such, but question the validity of
5 this one and its effect on
6 wildlife and the wilderness nature
7 of the area;
8 - it will hurt tourism. The
9 value of the mine will be negated
10 by the losses to tourism and to
11 existing businesses;
12 - wildlife in the area will be
13 wiped out. This will take a local
14 community of over 500 people and
15 remove all of their ability to be
16 self-sustaining economically. It
17 will just wipe it out;
18 - this will kill my business.
19 The nearby False Creek Mine left a
20 diesel tank that overflowed into
21 the creek;
22 - they say one thing and do
23 another;
24 - we bring people from all over
25 the world to hear wolves and see
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1 wildlife, many grizzlies, cougar
2 and lynx;
3 - engineers can never be
4 certain that containment won't
5 leak. It's not the worth the risk
6 to fisheries runs;
7 - I have seen the garbage.
8 They have just thrown it in the
9 swamp;
10 - helicopters servicing the
11 camp at Fish Lake flew too close
12 and chased the goats right off the
13 mountain and they never came back.
14 In summation, Panel, Friends of the Nemaiah
15 Valley is opposed to Taseko's plans to build a mine at
16 Teztan Biny for the following reasons:
17 1. It will cause profound cultural
18 loss to the Xeni Gwet'in people
19 and consequent health breakdown,
20 mental, physical and spiritual.
21 2. It will bring about social
22 disruption to the Nemiah Valley.
23 3. It will cause economic loss to
24 existing and planned wilderness
25 and cultural tourism operations
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1 throughout the area.
2 4. It will severely compromise
3 Xeni Gwet'in plans for food and
4 economic self-sufficiency.
5 5. It will cause immense loss of a
6 specific food source, some 160,000
7 rainbow trout, that we do not
8 believe can be adequately
9 compensated for.
10 6. It will create habitat loss for
11 many species of wildlife,
12 including the blue-listed grizzly
13 bear, and disrupt and displace
14 food animals and fur bearers like
15 deer, moose, wolverine and fisher.
16 7. It will imperil the
17 fish-bearing waters of the Taseko,
18 Chilko, Chilcotin and Fraser
19 Rivers.
20 The Proponents and the Province have failed
21 to consult and consider the people whose land this has
22 always been. And to have declared it a protected area
23 through the Aboriginal Wilderness Preserve Declaration
24 and the Elegesi Qiyus Wild Horse Preserve Declaration.
25 Panel, I submit that you hold the fate of
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1 this community in your hands. Your recommendation to
2 the Minister, while non-binding, will likely be
3 decisive. Up to this point, you have given those of
4 us opposed to this particular mine reason to be
5 hopeful.
6 Though we entered into a government process
7 in which we had little faith initially, we have
8 observed you doing the kind of due diligence that is
9 heartening. You have stood up to corporate bullying
10 and displayed an honourable impartiality that has
11 earned my respect.
12 Now, we are asking you to please make the
13 right decision and save Teztan Biny, Nabas, and this
14 community. We are asking you to say "no" to Taseko's
15 plans to destroy lakes, water and a people.
16 I believe you can do no less.
17 (Aboriginal language spoken)
18 (Applause)
19 THE CHAIRMAN: Thank you, Mr. Williams.
20 Any questions? Taseko?
21 QUESTIONS BY TASEKO:
22 MR. BELL-IRVING: Mr. Chairman, I have one
23 question, and it stems from through your presentation,
24 Mr. Williams. Three remarks:
25 If I understood, you indicated, can you
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1 guarantee, this is addressed to Taseko:
2 "Can you guarantee that the camp will be
3 drug-free?"
4 The second comment was:
5 "Some of the workers will choose to stay
6 after the shift and hunt, using, amongst other things,
7 quad vehicles."
8 And the third stated:
9 "What the company says would be different
10 from what the company does."
11 All those three comments suggest to me, sir,
12 that you have some basis for forming those opinions.
13 Could you give us or give me some insight as to what's
14 the basis for those comments and those accusations.
15 MR. WILLIAMS: I did say that "what the
16 company says," that was a quotation.
17 MR. BELL-IRVING: Oh, okay. Thank you.
18 MR. WILLIAMS: From somebody, one of the
19 statements from the questionnaire.
20 As for the recreational activities, the
21 hunting and so forth, my basis is, from what I have
22 heard from at other mine sites, and I have myself have
23 worked in logging camps, my brother was a logging
24 operator, he was the chairman of the, present -- Truck
25 Loggers Association for a term. And so I'm quite
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1 familiar with the logging industry, not so much with
2 the mining industry, but I do know something of how
3 mines operate, and I've worked on crews and this kind
4 of thing.
5 So it comes from that kind of personal
6 experience.
7 MR. BELL-IRVING: Thank you, sir.
8 QUESTIONS BY THE PANEL:
9 THE CHAIRMAN: Bill.
10 MR. KLASSEN: I have a couple of questions.
11 The Friends of Nemaiah Valley, you mentioned
12 at the outset that they do some research and they
13 support sustainable, that wasn't your word, but that's
14 what I took it to mean sustainable --
15 MR. WILLIAMS: Economic.
16 MR. KLASSEN: -- development. Did the
17 Friends of Nemaiah Valley undertake any research in
18 connection, in the area in connection with this mine?
19 MR. WILLIAMS: As a matter of fact,
20 Wayne McCrory is presenting after me, and that was one
21 of our initiatives.
22 MR. KLASSEN: Okay.
23 MR. WILLIAMS: It grew to be much larger
24 than what we had been able to fund, but Wayne's
25 submission will be the kind of research that we do.
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1 MR. KLASSEN: Were there other studies,
2 we have the documentation from Dr. McCrory, but were
3 there other studies that you could perhaps reference?
4 You don't need to do it now.
5 MR. WILLIAMS: There are several, yes.
6 One is connected with the wild horses. We do DNA
7 testing. We've collected blood and hair samplings and
8 sent them off for analysis. And we work with graduate
9 students. We have a doctoral student candidate who is
10 working doing her thesis now, she's almost completed
11 her fieldwork, And that is to do with the wild horse
12 ecology, the impact on the land.
13 MR. KLASSEN: I have another question.
14 Has the Friends of Nemaiah Valley given any thought to
15 how a mine might be developed, perhaps not necessarily
16 this one, but have you looked at how a mine might be
17 developed in a way that doesn't threaten the
18 surrounding environment or nearby cultural
19 communities?
20 MR. WILLIAMS: I'd say first of all
21 we're not opposed to mining as such.
22 We have not given a lot of thought -- it's
23 not, to my way of thinking, particularly, as something
24 that is a fit with the Tsilhqot'in culture.
25 Tsilhqot'in People are not, they have not
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1 traditionally been people who have accumulated wealth.
2 And I think you saw some examples in some of
3 the presentations yesterday.
4 Unlike coastal peoples who did accumulate
5 wealth and had a method of distributing it, one of
6 which was the potlatch, Tsilhqot'in People were
7 semi-nomadic, is the term Sean Nixon used yesterday,
8 and travelled around, they had seasonal rounds and did
9 not allow for the carrying around of a great deal of
10 wealth, the wealth was in fact in the land.
11 So I don't think mining particularly is a
12 good fit. So, no, I won't say that we have considered
13 that as the kind of economic development that we
14 thought would be suitable here.
15 It could be in very, very small ways, but
16 certainly something on the scale of this would be
17 quite inappropriate culturally.
18 MR. KLASSEN: Are you aware of any examples
19 where mining on whatever scale in proximity to
20 Aboriginal communities has not had a negative effect?
21 MR. WILLIAMS: I'm not. I'm willing to
22 believe that it's possible at an appropriate scale and
23 done in a certain way and with full accommodation and
24 consideration for the culture of the people and also
25 with their full buy-in, if you like, their full
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1 agreement. Yeah, I think that would be a prerequisite
2 certainly.
3 MR. KLASSEN: I was hoping you might
4 have a specific example.
5 MR. WILLIAMS: I could probably dig one
6 up. But not off the top of my head.
7 MR. KLASSEN: Thank you.
8 THE CHAIRMAN: Thank you, Mr. Williams.
9 That concludes our questioning as well.
10 I want to thank you for explaining to us the
11 work that the Friends of Nemaiah do and for presenting
12 the results of that questionnaire to us, which we have
13 received it, of course, in your submission.
14 MR. WILLIAMS: You have, yes.
15 THE CHAIRMAN: And, in fact, it's on the
16 screen here, my screen. And we thank you for
17 presenting your views here today.
18 MR. WILLIAMS: Thank you very much.
19 THE CHAIRMAN: We'll proceed with our
20 next speaker before we have a short break. And that's
21 Mr. McCrory, please.
22 PRESENTATION BY MR. WAYNE MCCRORY:
23 MR. McCRORY: Lights down, please. Is
24 that okay, if we turn the lights down?
25 (Aboriginal language spoken)
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1 People. Xeni Gwet'in.
2 The mining people and the Federal Panel.
3 My name is Wayne McCrory. I'm a Registered
4 Professional Biologist in the Province of British
5 Columbia. I'm also a director of a number of
6 conservation groups: The Valhalla Wilderness Society;
7 the Valhalla Foundation, which owns 240 acres as a
8 nature preserve in the Xeni Gwet'in area; I'm also on
9 the Board of the Whistler Get Bear Smart Society.
10 I've studied bears for 30 years, mountain
11 goats five years in National Parks. I worked on the
12 Pipeline Impact Studies in the Yukon, I worked on the
13 first Environmental Impact Study on the Syncrude tar
14 sands. So I have a wide range of experience in the
15 field of wildlife biology, impacts and so on.
16 Most of my presentation today is intended, at
17 the request of Chief Marilyn, to explain to the Panel
18 and the mine people some of the research we've been
19 doing here and programs primarily to support their
20 low-key wilderness tourism program. So I'm going to
21 go through a number of studies which have been
22 submitted to the Panel that also include an Access
23 Management Plan. And then a study we just completed,
24 a Grizzly Bear Conservation Overview Study by
25 Dr. Lance Craighead of the Craighead Institute from
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1 Montana kind of looking at the broader picture by he
2 and myself done for the Valhalla Society and the
3 Friends of Nemaiah Valley. A draft of that has been
4 supplied to the Panel.
5 And then comments on the mine development
6 from the Valhalla Foundation, like I say, a landowner
7 in the valley, and from the Valhalla Wilderness
8 Society which has been in existence for 30 years and
9 looked at impact studies and taken positions on mines
10 and been instrumental in saving over a million acres
11 of wilderness in the Province including spearheading
12 the campaign to save the Khutzeymateen Grizzly
13 Sanctuary and more recently the half a million acres
14 of the Spirit Bear Conservancy Proposal on the coast.
15 The context of most of our work here has to
16 do with the status of the land and the status of the
17 land is that it's an Aboriginal preserve and B.C.'s
18 first Wild Horse Preserve. And now there's also
19 Rights and Title from the B.C. Supreme Court.
20 But, in summary, you have an intact ecosystem
21 that includes grizzly bears, wolves, cougars, wild
22 salmon, wild horses, where people still survive on the
23 land. And it's a unique people and cultural landscape
24 found nowhere else in North America.
25 These two Declarations, which were the
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1 guiding background for my studies, was that there
2 would be no industrial logging, mining and
3 hydro-electric development in the Aboriginal Preserve
4 and the Wild Horse Preserve.
5 In 2005, I did a tourism study looking at
6 wildlife and wild horse values. The Xeni Gwet'in have
7 decided that they want to do low-key wilderness
8 tourism, build a tourism lodge, and market that and
9 that's where things -- so for the last five years
10 we've been doing different studies and training and
11 working towards those ends.
12 And the first conclusion, of course, was that
13 retaining the world class wilderness intactness is key
14 to sustainable Xeni Gwet'in tourism wildlife viewing
15 program as well as for the other lodge operations.
16 There are nine other wilderness lodges in their
17 territory. And the local lifestyle.
18 So it really is, I worked in many National
19 Parks and the Yukon, and it really is an amazing
20 wilderness area.
21 This is some of the tourism trails we looked
22 at in the Nemiah Valley.
23 We interviewed Elders. We interviewed some
24 of the lodge owners, and this is sort of the outline
25 of the plan:
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1 Mostly non-motorized access to the
2 backcountry;
3 The Elders wish tourism to focus on all
4 animals on the land, not just one or two species;
5 Integrate the cultural heritage values and
6 the tourism, and so on.
7 So you're looking at not only a very rich
8 wildlife area, but a very rich cultural heritage area.
9 And down at Ts'yl-os Lake, the Xeni Gwet'in have built
10 a model, an Earth Lodge which replicates the way their
11 ancestors used to live in the winter. And this is a
12 wonderful place to take tourists. Their plans for a
13 lodge, this is the location down near Ts'yl-os Lake.
14 And the nine -- there is a study which I won't get
15 into here, economic study of the wilderness lodges in
16 the territory, and they generate millions of dollars
17 annually.
18 Some of the things we looked at at the outlet
19 of Taseko Lake near Sebas Lodge, Taseko Lodge, there's
20 a very good grizzly bear viewing area in the fall, is
21 one of the areas we looked at.
22 And there's still a fairly good population of
23 grizzly bears in this part of the west Chilcotin. And
24 I think that's because of the good stewardship by the
25 people.
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1 Amazing salmon values. Salmon viewing, from
2 my experience, setting up bear viewing programs on the
3 B.C. coast has a very high value.
4 And also the wild horses, which are the
5 horses were here before Europeans, so they obviously
6 came from the Spanish horses. There's about 300 to
7 400 horses in their territory. And they have a high
8 value for eco-tourism and film documentaries as well.
9 There has been one Hollywood film at least.
10 The bears and I, down at Chilko Lake, we've had four
11 film crews in in the last few years filming wild
12 horses and the Xeni Gwet'in.
13 This is a film crew from Germany filming some
14 of the Xeni Gwet'in gentling a horse.
15 And this was a Belgium survival film on
16 location at Taseko Lake done in 2006.
17 A couple of years ago, we did more training.
18 We did an inventory of all the tourism trails, wild
19 horse areas, traditional plants for tourism program,
20 and training for being a bear-viewing guide, a wild
21 horse viewing guide, working at the surrounding lodges
22 and so on.
23 The Elders identified some sites that are so
24 special are their burial grounds or cremation grounds
25 that should be even off limits to low-key tourism.
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1 And, as you notice, they include Fish Lake, Onion
2 Lake, Mt. Tatlow, and so on. And throughout the
3 territory, including at Fish Lake, there are many
4 burial sights and cremation sites, so the whole area
5 is a cultural landscape.
6 And this is Onion Lake, which is below Fish
7 Lake.
8 Not all people in the Tsilhqot'in like
9 outside visitors or tourists, they like their privacy.
10 So this is one of the local characters.
11 This one didn't work.
12 So that's just in a nutshell some of the
13 tourism work that's ongoing.
14 And the Access Management Plan, which I did
15 in 2005, involved, again, interviews of the Elders,
16 questionnaire, interviewing the lodges. I did a
17 scientific literature review of the effects of access
18 on eight wildlife indicator species, including grizzly
19 bears, Bighorns, looked at roads, aircraft, et cetera.
20 And we just met a month or so ago and
21 upgraded the plan, so here's some of the objectives of
22 the Access Management Plan. And the objective is to
23 preserve the Aboriginal Wild Horse Preserve.
24 It's to maintain the Caretaker Area as an
25 intact wilderness as declared in the 1989 and 2001
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1 decrees.
2 So, with, again, I emphasize, no industrial
3 activities. This was strongly supported by the
4 community and emphasis is on tourists, road-less
5 wilderness, non-motorized.
6 So I won't bore you with all the details here
7 other than to show the degree of work that's gone into
8 this program that the Xeni Gwet'in are working on.
9 And that includes, by the way, and I think
10 it's relevant to the mine development, the amount of
11 illegal road building with ATVs in here is a serious
12 problem, up in the Taseko and even in the surrounding
13 area. It's something that's very difficult to
14 control. And I'll come back to that in a while.
15 So this map is being upgraded by the
16 Integrated Land Branch for the Xeni Gwet'in, but
17 basically most of the -- the front country would be
18 motorized but most of the backcountry would be
19 non-motorized, and that includes no helicopter
20 tourism, no heli-skiing, no heli-viewing and so on.
21 This was really interesting. We looked at
22 all of the roads in the Xeni Gwet'in Caretaker Area.
23 And the area compared to areas, the other areas
24 between here and Williams Lake is, you know, it is
25 roaded but virtually unroaded from a wildlife impact
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1 point of view.
2 But if you notice four points down, mining
3 roads, CAT trails in the Taseko area before 2003,
4 accounted for 45 percent of all permitted roads and
5 24 percent of all the roads in the area, so mining has
6 already had, and exploration, a considerable impact on
7 and opening up the wilderness.
8 The 2003 fire, they built a lot of roads
9 unnecessarily. It didn't stop the fire. And there
10 were difficulties in deactivating the roads and
11 keeping, you know, quads or ATVs out.
12 So what you really have here is a foothills
13 and mountain refuge of very high wildlife values, high
14 tourism values. The people have kept it that way,
15 they blockaded the logging at Henry's Crossing in
16 1989.
17 And my comments on the mine, I have not done
18 a detailed Environmental Assessment myself. This is
19 my professional opinion based on my knowledge,
20 detailed knowledge of the effects of roads and zones
21 of influence on grizzly bears from other studies, is
22 that the Chilcotin Sustainable Resource Management
23 Plan and the mine as part of that are the biggest
24 access issues and threats to the area.
25 And that includes your transmission line to
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1 Fish Lake.
2 The other objective is to control motorized
3 access and minimize disturbances to habitat and
4 wildlife and so on.
5 And even Wolverines, which den in the winter
6 in the high country, so they have their young in these
7 snow dens, are extremely sensitive to disturbance from
8 snowmobiling, for example. And this is just one of
9 the things we looked at.
10 So we had all these indicator species,
11 including the grizzly bear. And the grizzly bears
12 here are, to me, larger than the ones I have studied
13 on the coast.
14 This is a grizzly bear photographed with a
15 remote camera down at the Captain Georgetown area.
16 And I wouldn't want to run into that without my bear
17 spray or on a dark night, but he's down there feeding
18 on salmon.
19 Wild fires and climate change, which I will
20 get into, are a big issue. In 2003, B.C.'s largest
21 forest fire was here. It burned from one side of the
22 Brittany to the other.
23 In 2009, the whole north end of the Brittany
24 burned, an even bigger fire. And a lot of that is
25 attributed to fire suppression over 50 years, beetle
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1 kill, beetle infestation, deadfall resulting from
2 global warming, and everything just takes off.
3 So we've linked the Access Management Plan to
4 the Fire Management Plan. I recommended more
5 controlled burns.
6 The morel mushroom harvest post-burn is a big
7 economic generator for First Nations communities all
8 over, all over Western Canada, into the Yukon, in
9 fact, and down into the U.S.
10 And so there are plans with the 2009 fire to
11 identify proper access areas, regulate garbage, the
12 Xeni Gwet'in will be charging a permit, and that sort
13 of thing.
14 So we came up with a lot of guidelines,
15 including having trails where you minimize
16 disturbances to bears and not having trails and
17 campgrounds in high quality grizzly habitat where
18 people might get hurt, et cetera, et cetera.
19 We also have wild horse viewing guidelines.
20 We've designated a few trails for mountain
21 biking and so on.
22 We even have a free-ranging wild horse
23 management plan.
24 And by the way, all the area from Stone to
25 the Taseko, on the other side of Taseko, is a very
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1 good wild horse area, and used by some people for
2 photographing and filming, so it's not just on this
3 side.
4 So my comments related to access and the
5 proposed mine at Teztan Biny. The problems I have as
6 a conservation biologist with many of the requirements
7 for Environmental Impact Statements, whether it's
8 logging plans or whatever, is it tends to focus on the
9 footprint of the development. And I see that in the
10 way we've looked at grizzly bears in this issue, and
11 not at the indirect or cumulative impacts.
12 And one of the indirect effects of the mine
13 would be, and you're going to have all these people
14 out here making all this income in Williams Lake who
15 like to buy ATVs and snowmobiles and want to go out
16 and play.
17 And I can guarantee you, observing the lack
18 of effectiveness of road-closed areas, for example, in
19 the north Cascades, that when you have that many
20 people with that many toys, you're going to have them
21 running all over here, cutting more ATV trails, and
22 you're not going to be able to control it. They
23 bypass gates, they take gates down. It's very easy to
24 cut trails all over here. So that is an indirect,
25 would be an indirect effect of the mine, besides the
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1 cumulative effects of the mine such as upgrading the
2 road, the transmission line, and so on.
3 And, like I say, I have not done professional
4 review of the mine itself. But I plan on looking more
5 closely at it in the next month or two.
6 So just to give you an idea of, we just
7 finished this map last week, of looking at the whole
8 ecosystem and I'll return to this.
9 We looked at a large area in the foothills
10 here to see if there was an area as large as
11 Yellowstone Park, the greater Yellowstone ecosystem,
12 which is the only place in the continental United
13 States where you still have a viable grizzly
14 population that's expanding and so on.
15 And I'll return to this in about 10 minutes.
16 But I just want to show you that 49 percent of this
17 large area's protected.
18 The Xeni Gwet'in contribute a large portion
19 of that through their Aboriginal preserves. And the
20 four parks in the area, and so on.
21 But the Fish Lake Mine will contribute to
22 further fragmentation of the ecosystem. And we can
23 argue that, biologists can argue that, like spy-to-spy
24 cartoons forever, and I've been in many hearings with
25 that, but we don't step back and look at the long-term
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1 cumulative impacts, nor do we look at the fact that
2 once you get the road and the transmission line in,
3 you know, mining changes, mineral values change, the
4 mineral they use in batteries, you know, are -- open
5 mines in Mongolia and stuff.
6 So we don't look at what's going to happen if
7 this mine is approved, where is the next mine going to
8 be, where is the next ore body going to be discovered?
9 So I'll just leave you with that. I'll
10 actually come back to that. I want to come back to
11 that.
12 Now, we just finished a climate study. We
13 all get too serious, so.
14 This settles the argument that's going on as
15 a result of the e-mails that were, the scientists'
16 e-mails that were pirated. So you don't need any
17 further proof or argument.
18 But anyhow, the Xeni Gwet'in have done the
19 first climate change study in First Nations I think in
20 Western Canada, and we're just wrapping it up.
21 And I'll just highlight a few things.
22 And basically, what's going to happen is the
23 area's going to be much drier. It's going to be
24 wetter at certain times of the year. But if you look
25 at the yellow areas sort of at the bottom of the map,
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1 you know, that's kind of where the Xeni Gwet'in
2 territory is. And the northern limits of the
3 grassland complexes of North America, really, which is
4 why you have California Bighorn here, you're at the
5 northern extremity of their range. And why you have
6 wild horses.
7 So the grasslands are going to increase
8 significantly. And tree line will move up the
9 mountainside and become more compressed.
10 So there's going to be some significant
11 habitat changes for wildlife, not necessarily all
12 negative, but for the grizzly -- you'll get increased
13 periods of drought, increased wild fire along with
14 that. And so what you'll get with this upward shift,
15 the tree line, for example, is a reduction of these
16 wet meadows that have the wild potatoes that the Xeni
17 Gwet'in and the grizzly bears share as an important
18 food. And white bark pine will probably go the way it
19 is in the States with much more disease and so on.
20 And it's a very important food for grizzly bears as
21 well, they raid the squirrel middens for nuts.
22 And these are wild potatoes. That's actually
23 my granddaughter. So, very rich ecology.
24 So what's going to happen and what's already
25 happening is you're looking at a stressed ecosystem.
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1 And we see that with the big fires. And the more you
2 develop it, the more you reduce the resiliency of the
3 ecosystem to global warming.
4 And the more intact the ecosystem is, the
5 more the wildlife are going to be able to adapt to
6 climate change, the more fragmented it is, the more
7 difficult it's going to be.
8 And just when you look at all these
9 clearcuts, you know, just think of all the drying
10 that's going on and the rapid snow melt and stuff, and
11 you know, it's not helping things.
12 So, as I say, in terms of climate change, the
13 key to maintaining things over the next century, we
14 don't understand a lot of things, but we, you know,
15 many scientists say the more intact your area is, the
16 better things are going to survive.
17 And this is some of the wilderness view
18 looking across towards I think Fish Lake is just on
19 the left there, so.
20 So now I'll just quickly go back to the
21 grizzly study, the conservation overview.
22 I do a lot of work with different scientists,
23 including on the B.C. coast, that look at the whole
24 ecosystem, that look at how much land forms do grizzly
25 bears need, corridor areas between, and so on.
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1 And during the trail inventory, we did a lot
2 of inventory of grizzly habitats and so on. These are
3 a couple of the Xeni Gwet'in researchers. And so as I
4 said earlier, this is an amazing grizzly bear
5 refugeeum and it's actually larger than the greater
6 Yellowstone ecosystem.
7 And this is a grizzly bear just up in the
8 pass above the band office rubbing at his rubbing tree
9 in the springtime checking out his territory.
10 So this is the large area we looked at and
11 this will give you an idea, the black line. The
12 purple line is the Xeni Gwet'in Caretaker Area.
13 On the right side, all of those eroded areas,
14 they are coming into the Foothills. The grizzly bears
15 are extirpated there, and in our study area, they are
16 threatened.
17 We looked at some of the other conservation
18 studies and the Nature Conservancy of Canada did one
19 recently, and I won't get into the details, but they
20 looked at, I think, a number of species to look at
21 where the best conservation areas were and you'll
22 notice the green areas are those that came out with
23 the highest values and they include the Brittany
24 Triangle and some of the Nemiah Valley, and,
25 interestingly, the Fish Lake Mine area and areas north
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1 towards Stone. But I think this includes migratory
2 birds and other things and I won't get into that.
3 Again, you can see the darker areas have the
4 highest conservation values. And you can see the
5 areas over towards Fish Lake are identified as such.
6 So the status of the grizzly bear here is
7 that the population is down to 300, but in the Nemiah
8 area, they are not in too bad a shape and at a recent
9 study over at Chilko, using hair samples, found 119
10 grizzly bears, including one that travelled all the
11 way from the Bridge River to feed on salmon at the
12 Chilko River. So they are a dry-land grizzly. They
13 need large home ranges. And so the orange areas there
14 are where they are threatened and that includes this
15 area.
16 So our study recommended that a grizzly bear
17 recovery plan for the area and retain the remaining
18 grizzly bear habitat, including the salmon as an
19 important value.
20 So over a million hectares is already
21 protected, and that includes the Xeni Gwet'in
22 Aboriginal Preserve, there are 15 provincial parks,
23 including those within the Aboriginal preserve.
24 So here we show the large area. The red
25 lines towards the bottom show the Xeni Gwet'in Rights
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1 and Title areas and the Brittany Triangle. And the
2 mine is down in the Rights area just on the bottom
3 right.
4 So what is relevant from a conservation
5 perspective is that this area has more protected
6 lands, the larger Chilcotin grizzly area, than we got
7 in the Great Bear Rain Forest; we've got 33 percent
8 protected. So this is very significant from an
9 ecosystem conservation viewpoint.
10 And if you look where the mine is going to
11 be, it's in between Aboriginal preserve and Ts'yl-os
12 Park and Big Creek Park, and just below it, it is not
13 on the map, is Spruce Lake Protected Area. So you are
14 going to start driving a web of development further
15 into the ecosystem and then, like I say, be it another
16 mine found with another mineral or the same minerals
17 and a road will keep going. And this is the whole
18 Cariboo-Chilcotin is already a severely impacted
19 ecosystem with grizzlies extirpated sort of beyond
20 that line, so, you know, this is why my perspective is
21 more on cumulative impacts.
22 So it's already a protected area. If this
23 was a National Park rated by the Canadian Government,
24 we wouldn't be here today. But this is an Aboriginal
25 protected area that should command the same respect.
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1 So I'll go on from there and I just want to
2 talk a bit about the position of the Valhalla
3 Foundation and the Valhalla Society. And that is we
4 are against the mine development at Fish Lake. We are
5 not against all mines. We have mines where I live in
6 the Slocan Valley that are fine. But we did have an
7 open pit mine proposed to do the same thing you want
8 to do, dump the tailings into Slocan Lake, and there
9 was, like, no way.
10 So we think that to take a pristine lake like
11 this and use it for a tailings pond to make the
12 contaminants inactive, it's ecologically
13 unconscionable, it's too high a risk and does not
14 respect the Aboriginal Preserve and Xeni Gwet'in
15 cultural values in the area.
16 The Valhalla Foundation owns and manages a
17 240 acre nature preserve in Elkin Creek, which is also
18 intended to protect cultural heritage values.
19 We are about 15 kilometres from the mine.
20 The properties include about a kilometre of
21 Chinook spawning habitat better used by quite a number
22 of grizzlies. And we just think your whole mine is --
23 it's unfortunate where it is. I wish it were
24 somewhere else, but it's just too much risk even for
25 the Taseko run salmon.
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1 Since 1989, our 3500 member society and other
2 groups have supported the Nemiah Aboriginal Preserve
3 Declaration.
4 So we just say "no".
5 And we went up there in May 2008 to see what
6 was going on. And I have to say that, having worked
7 for mining companies in Mexico, Montana, and so on,
8 I'm from a mining family, I was appalled at the lack
9 of care.
10 This is a public campground at Fish Lake. It
11 was bulldozed and left a mess.
12 There was evidence of a small diesel spill in
13 the lake, probably from the, I'm guessing the pump
14 used for diamond drilling. I used to do diamond
15 drilling.
16 If this is your environmental sensitivity, I
17 don't know how the hell you're going to be able to
18 build a big mine there and do a good job, because we
19 were all appalled.
20 This is some of the debris from -- I think
21 these are pads to clean up the diesel, but the whole
22 site smelled of diesel.
23 This is about a kilometre west of the lake at
24 the east end of the large meadows. And this is what
25 it looked like after there had been some winter
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1 drilling activity. Not very nice.
2 Most people wouldn't know this, but I assume
3 this was driller's mud from the drilling site that was
4 just allowed to run down into to the wetlands. This
5 looks like driller's mud from the diamond drilling
6 I've done.
7 So these are the meadows a kilometre west of
8 Fish Lake. Very good grizzly habitat. Nice grizzly
9 bear rubbing tree at this site. And so on.
10 So I could argue in the place for an hour
11 with your biologists about impacts but I don't want to
12 go there because it's his opinion against mine. I
13 want to argue about cumulative impacts and the overall
14 effects of the ecosystem and "if this mine, what
15 next?"
16 So, as I say, the mine is in a corridor area
17 between Nuncy Park, the Aboriginal preserve, Big Creek
18 Park, and you see on the right, Spruce Lake Park, so
19 you are kind of right between some major protection
20 areas that are incredibly important to the long-term
21 conservation of grizzly bears and other wildlife,
22 because the areas to the northeast have been so
23 impacted that the grizzly has pretty well gone.
24 And, again, the nature conservancy studies
25 show high values out there.
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1 So basically I was just in the Grand Canyon,
2 and I wished you could see the picture, it is -- there
3 are no words to describe it. But the Grand Canyon
4 park allowed a uranium mine in the 1960s and now the
5 taxpayers are spending millions of dollars to clean up
6 contamination.
7 And quite often globally, like I say, I'm
8 from a mining family, three of my family members, my
9 son worked in the industry, but Canadian mining
10 companies do not have a good global reputation. And
11 with the way markets fluctuate and the stock market
12 works, you end up with taxpayers spending millions of
13 dollars in Canada, as we are, to clean up mining
14 messes left behind.
15 So having come up in a mining family and
16 being a prospector and miner myself at times, and I
17 told my father before he died he would still be
18 prospecting in heaven, and not every place that has
19 mineralization needs to be a mine.
20 The valley in the picture is a magnificent
21 grizzly valley on the B.C. coast called Nakutsi
22 (phonetic). It's now part of the half-million-acre
23 Spirit Bear Conservancy complex that the Valhalla
24 Society spearheaded.
25 I found out before my father died he owned
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1 part of the gold mine there. But my family still
2 supported protection of this area.
3 But mines do not belong in some areas. The
4 Windy Craggy mine, where some of my brothers worked,
5 was too high risk and now it is in the protected
6 Tatshenshini–Alsek Park.
7 So my message to the mining company, with all
8 due respects, and to the Panel, from the Valhalla
9 Society, and as landowners in the area from the
10 Valhalla Foundation, from my Board of Directors, is
11 please do not approve the mine. The area is way too
12 beautiful and the people too special to allow this
13 kind of industrialization and direct and indirect
14 effects and the so-called benefits from jobs and so
15 on.
16 It's truly an amazing area.
17 And Fish Lake is very sacred to the people.
18 Like I say, the Elders didn't even want low-key
19 tourism there.
20 So please do not turn this into a tailings
21 repository.
22 Leave it for the people.
23 Leave it for the children.
24 Leave it for the grizzly bears.
25 Leave it for the fish.
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1 And that's all I have to say.
2 THE CHAIRMAN: Thank you, Mr. McCrory. We
3 would -- I'm sure we'll make arrangements to keep the
4 presentation as an exhibit so that we can look at it
5 in more detail after we leave, obviously.
6 MR. MCCRORY: Yes, I apologize for not
7 bringing a printed copy. I worked on my 214-megabyte
8 PowerPoint until 10:00 yesterday morning. I drove
9 10.5 hours and I tried printing it off, and it's as
10 slow as I am getting in old age, but I will get you
11 copies.
12 THE CHAIRMAN: We can transfer it from your
13 computer to our electronic Registry, so we will have
14 it to look at and we'll enter it as an exhibit.
15 We also, of course, have your Grizzly Bear
16 Study that you submitted earlier as part of our
17 record.
18 MR. MCCRORY: Yes, I'll send you an updated
19 version.
20 THE CHAIRMAN: Taseko, first of all, any
21 questions?
22 MR. MCCRORY: I'm a little hard of hearing
23 and one of my hearing aids didn't work this morning,
24 so.
25 QUESTIONS BY TASEKO:
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1 MR. BELL-IRVING: Mr. McCrory, you and I share
2 a lot in common, and that's one of them. I, too, am
3 hard of hearing.
4 Before I get into questions, may I ask simply
5 this: Are you planning to be in attendance at the
6 technical sessions where terrestrial matters, and
7 particularly the landscape and the wildlife, the
8 effects of the Project on grizzly bears, specifically,
9 are going to be discussed?
10 MR. MCCRORY: I'm going to try and make it.
11 I just talked to David about that this morning. I've
12 been away in Arizona for a month, so I'm a little bit
13 behind, as you may have gathered. But I think we
14 would like to do that. In which case, I will do a
15 professional/technical review at different levels.
16 I have reviewed several of your documents.
17 But I haven't, like, say, put it in writing.
18 MR. BELL-IRVING: My dilemma, Mr. Chairman, is
19 that Mr. McCrory's presentation gives me a great deal
20 of thought and reason to ask questions to clarify and
21 to set the record straight.
22 And I'm not sure that, given the time today,
23 it would be a good use of your time. And I'm in your
24 hands. Rather than getting into those questions, I
25 have a number of them, or reserve the right to do so
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1 on the understanding that Mr. McCrory will be present
2 in Williams Lake at the end of the month.
3 THE CHAIRMAN: Mr. Bell-Irving, would it be
4 possible to put your questions in writing so that we
5 could understand what they are and submit them to us?
6 MR. BELL-IRVING: Most certainly.
7 THE CHAIRMAN: And then perhaps we could
8 get, if Mr. McCrory's able to, to get a response to
9 those again on the record.
10 MR. MCCRORY: I would be happy to respond
11 to them in writing before the hearings.
12 THE CHAIRMAN: That would be very helpful, I
13 think, and I appreciate the time constraints that
14 we're under, that may be more efficient.
15 MR. MCCRORY: Okay.
16 MR. BELL-IRVING: I would be happy to do that.
17 I didn't want this to become a professional
18 biologist/professional biologist dialogue here.
19 MR. MCCRORY: We'd be here until Easter
20 Monday. I used to be on the BC Grizzly Bear
21 Scientific Advisory Committee with 11 bear biologists,
22 government and non-government, just imagine. The one
23 thing, we finally agreed on one thing and that was a
24 bunch of grizzly bear no hunting reserves.
25 THE CHAIRMAN: Well, I think that this
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1 sounds like a good way of perhaps dealing with the
2 questions you have and we would very much look forward
3 to getting a response to those as well.
4 I'll turn quickly to the Panel and see if
5 there's any immediate questions.
6 QUESTIONS BY THE PANEL:
7 MS. MORIN: I just have one.
8 THE CHAIRMAN: Okay, go ahead.
9 MS. MORIN: Sir, in your professional
10 opinion, can you provide an indication of the relative
11 value of the Fish Lake area for grizzly bears?
12 MR. MCCRORY: I don't want to go there
13 because I don't think it's a relevant question, with
14 all due respect, because, again, environmental impact
15 tends to look at -- focus on the site and the
16 footprint of the site. And my professional opinion
17 would be that it will have an impact. We don't see
18 any information on how many grizzlies pass through
19 that area. So perhaps a habitat loss, of course,
20 won't be that great.
21 But I always remember an astounding study
22 done in Yellowstone Park on the Fishing Bridge
23 Campground, one campground in one of the U.S.'s
24 biggest parks. It turned out that it was a kind of
25 epicentre for grizzly bears and the mortality there
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1 from conflicts with people was causing well over
2 probably 30 percent mortality to the Yellowstone
3 population. Don't quote me on that. And that's what
4 we call a -- you would never imagine that from a park
5 campground, but it was. It was shocking to read it.
6 Because grizzly bears have few home ranges, and they
7 might come through that area once or twice a year, but
8 when they come through the area, they get caught in
9 food garbage problems or whatever.
10 So the way I would answer that question is to
11 say that the mine road and the transmission line will
12 probably add mortality factors. I know you have
13 something on highway mortality that isn't very clear.
14 But there is around roads, well travelled roads, what
15 we call a "zone of disturbance", so when you increase
16 the traffic there, you would look at the whole road
17 separate from the other road, and increased traffic is
18 increasing the zone of disturbance. We're aware
19 grizzly bears would avoid using that habitat.
20 And other bears would habituate to the
21 roadside and become more vulnerable to traffic
22 mortality and to poaching and so on.
23 We see that in Yellowstone Park. We see that
24 all over.
25 So we don't know and we don't have detailed
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1 studies as to how many grizzlies actually travel
2 through that area and use the habitat.
3 We know that a grizzly travelled from Gold
4 Bridge to Chilko River. But, you know, they move a
5 lot. They have large home ranges.
6 So we don't know, and we don't have any
7 information that I know of, how that mine road might
8 block access to the habitat on the east side for
9 warier bears or that sort of thing.
10 And certainly I think you've indicated that
11 you can manage food/garbage management and problems
12 and so on, but, you know, these are the other
13 cumulative impacts that radiate well beyond just the
14 mine site.
15 And my other response to that question would
16 be:
17 First, this mine. Where's the next one when
18 you get the road and transmission line?
19 That's a cumulative impact, so that you
20 cannot predict or measure right now.
21 So just to focus on the 143 acres, or
22 whatever the mine site is, can be very misleading from
23 an impact point of view.
24 THE CHAIRMAN: Thank you, Mr. McCrory. I
25 think that completes our questions, certainly for the
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1 moment.
2 But back to Taseko, I just wanted to note
3 that we'd like to get those questions obviously just
4 as soon as we can, Mr. Bell-Irving, so we can pass
5 them on to Mr. McCrory. And we would appreciate very
6 much, without placing too much burden on you, if you
7 could respond to those by April 16th, if that's
8 possible. That's a deadline we've set for receipt of
9 new information.
10 MR. MCCRORY: Yeah, no problem. Thank
11 you for the opportunity of letting me come here.
12 THE CHAIRMAN: And I think Taseko just
13 had one more comment.
14 MR. BELL-IRVING: Yes, I would certainly
15 undertake to get you the questions. I'm trying to
16 preserve the weekend, but by the end of next week, I
17 can certainly commit to.
18 But if I may ask one question of the Panel
19 with respect to Mr. McCrory's presentation. At the
20 end of his presentation there was reference made and
21 pictures shown about his visit to the Fish Lake area
22 and what was allegedly a mine site area where
23 drilling.
24 If the Panel wishes, Taseko would be happy to
25 put on the record the details of our program, the
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1 photographic record of the site, both prior to our
2 being on the site and post, before we left it, of
3 course, all done under the watchful eye of government
4 and Notice of Work Permit.
5 So if that's of interest to the Panel, I
6 think we would be prepared to provide that
7 information.
8 THE CHAIRMAN: If I could just clarify, we
9 saw some pictures that Mr. McCrory put forward. Would
10 those particular sites have been rehabilitated, is
11 that what you're getting at, Mr. Bell-Irving, or were
12 they left in the state that the photographs shows?
13 MR. BELL-IRVING: It's my understanding,
14 Mr. Chairman, that for any of the drilling and
15 pre-mining exploratory work, that that is all done
16 under terms and conditions of permits by the
17 Provincial Government. And that that includes the
18 need to reclaim the sites prior to being relieved of
19 our responsibilities.
20 So it's that reclamation aspect that I was
21 referring to.
22 THE CHAIRMAN: Well, if you wish to submit
23 photographs, we will certainly accept them for the
24 record.
25 I don't know if it's possible to take the
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1 pictures Mr. McCrory has shown and then to show the
2 reclamation afterwards if in fact that has occurred.
3 I think that's the difficulty.
4 MR. BELL-IRVING: Yes, it's a challenge, and I
5 just wasn't sure on how that information would be of
6 interest to the Panel. That's why I raised it.
7 MR. MCCRORY: I gave them to the Xeni
8 Gwet'in with a bit of a report.
9 So, thank you, have a good weekend.
10 THE CHAIRMAN: Thank you, Mr. McCrory.
11 We'll take a short break.
12 (BRIEF BREAK)
13 THE CHAIRMAN: We're ready for the next
14 presentation. Ladies and Gentlemen, I think we're
15 ready to begin again. I'll ask you to take your
16 seats. I will go over the list of speakers that we
17 now have left this morning if we can manage this.
18 We will begin with Mr. Reuter, who is before
19 us.
20 Then we have Mabel Solomon and family.
21 Marvin William.
22 Ronnie Solomon.
23 Chief Baptiste for a few closing remarks.
24 Taseko Mines.
25 I will have my closing remarks.
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1 And then we will close the meeting with I
2 understand a prayer and a drumming ceremony again.
3 We have quite a few people lined up, still,
4 but we do have a time constraint here today that we
5 must leave at 1 o'clock, so I certainly would ask that
6 if all of the speakers could summarize their remarks
7 as quickly as possible.
8 And we'll begin with Mr. Reuter.
9 Please proceed.
10 PRESENTATION BY MR. SIEGFRIED REUTER:
11 MR. REUTER: Good morning. And good
12 day to the Elders, Chief and Council, the Panel, and
13 the people of Nemiah, Taseko Mines, and visitors.
14 Just briefly I have to say that I'm a little
15 disappointed that I do not see a lot of visitors from
16 Williams Lake, nor do I see the media.
17 And that's a little bit unfortunate because I
18 always feel that we go through great length attending
19 things in Williams Lake where we share our views with
20 people in Williams Lake. This concerns people of
21 Williams Lake as well and I'm very disappointed not to
22 see anybody here.
23 However, one more thing I was going to
24 mention, concerning Wayne's PowerPoint. And that I
25 agree in all his points. But the one that sticks out
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1 the most is, and I understand it's difficult to see
2 from a miner's perspective as opposed to a wilderness
3 tourism operator, but that the impact of a, you know,
4 fairly small area would be justifiable. But it is
5 much, much more than just that small initial claim
6 site.
7 So that's one of our huge concerns as well.
8 And also, of course, the fact that it's
9 already been talked about that a lot of mining
10 interest exists in the south Taseko area. We've had
11 already visitors from geologists and different
12 consultants that have made their way down there and
13 indicated their interest and their claims down there.
14 And so when the mine at Fish Lake is going to
15 be established, my view is that the feasibility to
16 open a lot more not only explorations but also, you
17 know, recovering ore is going to be -- it's a cinch.
18 So that's a huge concern.
19 So I will continue.
20 We would like to thank the Federal Review
21 Panel for involving us in this discussion on the
22 proposed mine at Fish Lake.
23 Your continued updates and invitation to
24 express our opinions and concerns has been the only
25 ongoing opportunity we have had to open and unbiassed
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1 inclusion in this process.
2 And I find that also unfortunate that the
3 B.C. Government, in my view, has not upheld their, how
4 shall I say, perhaps commitments to other users on the
5 land the way I feel they should have.
6 I would like to restate our concern that
7 B.C.'s approval of the Environmental Assessment for
8 this mine is hugely flawed and based on serious
9 exclusion of the local people and businesses.
10 This mine would seriously and negatively
11 affect all of our lives. B.C.'s approval, at best, is
12 based on downplaying the concerns of people dwelling
13 40 kilometres away, along with dismissing the concerns
14 of people living 3 to 5 kilometres away below this
15 huge mine.
16 Now, 3 to 5 kilometres away, that's, of
17 course, ourselves, and also it concerns Tom and Alice,
18 but the fact of the matter is that the media
19 approached us in Williams Lake last week and saying
20 they did not even know we were where we were.
21 So don't for a second -- no, pardon me, 40
22 kilometres away along with dismissing the concerns of
23 people living 3 to 5 kilometres away from this huge
24 mine.
25 Don't for a second think all people
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1 downstream are safe and secure.
2 Not only our lodge and family are here, what
3 about Tom and Alice up at Little Fish Lake, Nabas?
4 They spoke with us early last year about
5 their plans to rebuild Alice's dad's homestead. They
6 were hunting and fishing, hauling water up out of Fish
7 Lake all last summer.
8 And making many trips, small sustainable
9 resource there, because they are also purchasing
10 things from Williams Lake as they are going back and
11 forth returning with materials.
12 So they spoke with us early last year about
13 their plans to rebuild the homestead.
14 They also helped us out by looking after our
15 horses somewhat because, due to a fair amount of
16 activity up there last year, that did actually, due to
17 some road access that was -- well, I'm sure it was all
18 permitted, but it came to our surprise that it was at
19 such a large impact at such a level.
20 So therefore our horses were going into areas
21 that they normally don't go making it difficult for us
22 to find them and use them.
23 So they managed to get a roof on that small
24 cabin up at Nabas.
25 And also what the two people I thought about
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1 is that Ronnie and Marty Solomon who probably about
2 seven years ago started actually cleaning up that site
3 up there with the intent to also utilize that area
4 where they grew up.
5 So there's obviously people using that area
6 on a day-to-day basis.
7 So we personally have enjoyed what we
8 consider a positive neighbour and working relationship
9 with the people of Xeni Gwet'in.
10 Taseko Lake Lodge has a historic -- a history
11 of employing local First Nations people. In some of
12 the pictures, you've already seen them, they are from
13 1949, when Billy Woods still had the Lodge. That
14 those two people there was Jimmy Bullion and George
15 Turner, working at the present time, at that time for
16 Billy Woods.
17 And now we're talking about the employment
18 opportunities which we have had made available to Xeni
19 over the years that we have been at the Lodge for
20 fence building, carpentry, log building, work,
21 housekeeping, cooking, summer students, and guiding.
22 So for the past six years we have been part
23 of the Sustainable Tourism Protocol Agreement between
24 Xeni Gwet'in and a few wilderness tourism operators in
25 the area in order to not only enhance our existing
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1 tourism operations, but also to promote and generate
2 Xeni's own product of sustainable cultural tourism.
3 And please bear with me, this may seem going
4 in a direction, but it comes to a point here right
5 away.
6 We have gone as far as offering a partnership
7 opportunity and even entertained the sale of our Lodge
8 to Xeni and Stone, as it is such a compatible business
9 opportunity for the people of Xeni. This is a
10 lifestyle that -- you know, horses, ranching, hunting,
11 guiding and hospitality.
12 We have genuinely tried to make this a
13 beneficial relationship here with our neighbours.
14 When we submitted an application and development plan
15 to ILMB for lease and title of the property under our
16 buildings and holdings six years ago, we were
17 disallowed by the B.C. Government.
18 By disallowing our lease, and you will have
19 maps and the letter of attached to here as well as
20 their reasons, as well as our development plan, by
21 disallowing our lease, a huge opportunity for local
22 economy, jobs, sustainable industry, and community
23 building has been cast aside.
24 We struggle to get investors who want and
25 need security.
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1 And I am very certain that the people of
2 Taseko Mines would know that better than anybody; that
3 you need to give an investor certain security. That's
4 what you're obviously working towards right now, to
5 give them security that their investment is safe and
6 will have some proper returns.
7 So that's been a huge struggle.
8 Where was I?
9 Okay, the security.
10 So we can't get a mortgage. We can't even
11 get a mortgage to continue developing or hiring, and
12 we have lost more than one sales over our property,
13 because it's been for sale for two years now, and it
14 has actually hinged on almost every person but one
15 when they found out about the mine. I'm sorry, that's
16 a reality. And I do have that in writing if need be
17 to prove that.
18 So which obviously for the same reason is no
19 longer appealing to Xeni as a wilderness operation
20 because, if the mine goes, our product is gone, what
21 it is today.
22 So this is just the reality.
23 So we develop. We can't sell. And now we
24 are forced to live under a mine.
25 So we are truly confused by the Province that
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1 professes to want to make a new deal, new relationship
2 with B.C. First Nations, turn down our proposal to
3 develop this compatible and sustainable industry and
4 then give the green light to a contrary, limited-term,
5 completely not-Native-endorsed, destructive and
6 dangerous business plan six years after our denial and
7 disallowance.
8 Again, the question comes up, we raised it
9 last Thursday, is, was this potentially, I can't help
10 but think that, the Province's intent the whole time
11 along that we were disallowed our application, along
12 with many other things that they have been dragging
13 their feet at helping us to move forward?
14 We still have serious unanswered questions
15 and unresolved concerns, including our health and
16 safety right here below the mine. Our water and air.
17 Overlap and incompatible activities. Loss of work
18 area. Huge loss of our grazing.
19 I will pause here for just a minute because I
20 have to refer back to something here and that's the
21 grazing.
22 The maps that we gave you last Thursday
23 indicate, they come from your website, actually from
24 Taseko Mine's website, it shows that the grazing is
25 along the Taseko River corridor. The majority of the
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1 grazing is in the Fish Creek corridor. That's where
2 our horses are pretty much seven to eight months of
3 the year.
4 They will have spent some time in the spring
5 down at Onion Lake, but they will immediately, after
6 that burns off, which is very soon, they move up top
7 where there's an endless, endless amount of healthy
8 natural wetlands producing thousands of tons of grass.
9 Again, that's been downplayed I can't
10 remember how many times.
11 So, again, I understand there's a huge ore
12 body below there. But please do keep in mind what's
13 above the ore body is of huge value to other people.
14 How do we put a price on either?
15 I suppose, I guess the easiest is leaving it
16 intact. You're not hurting anything, so that would
17 solve itself.
18 So loss of grazing, loss of value. Again,
19 that brings a thing to my real estate value. I've
20 already heard people basically planning that their
21 homes are going to increase in value because of the
22 mine.
23 Well, again, these very people that are of
24 this opinion, and they are probably right, they are
25 not here today. Where, meanwhile, our property
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1 values, they are going to plummet.
2 So it's our neighbourhood.
3 And so loss of security and loss of future
4 business income.
5 So government knows we're here. The miners
6 know we're here. We have entertained you for three
7 years now and it's been good business. We do,
8 Katherine mentioned that point, we have housed you for
9 three years. It's been a good relationship,
10 100 percent. But it is professional; we offer
11 services, you get a product. And you paid for it. So
12 that was good.
13 But that does not mean that I can support
14 this mine. Because it's going to eliminate basically
15 what we're doing on the ground or what we're working
16 towards to do on the ground.
17 And if you look at the history, we have tried
18 for many years to build this up, and the Panel has the
19 proof up here, to a very, very extensive high-end
20 wilderness tourism destination. It has all the
21 makings for being able to do that.
22 The answers I'm hoping will be fleshed out
23 here over the next few months, but anyway.
24 So government knows we're here. The miners
25 know we're here. First Nations also know that we're
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1 there. Which makes me a little more than curious as
2 to why we were left unmentioned, unconsulted, and
3 unconsidered in this process up until the Federal
4 Panel steps in.
5 So, therefore, we thank you again for having
6 this opportunity.
7 So we're not dependent people. We don't ask
8 for anyone to take care of us. And we don't give up
9 easily.
10 We turn every stone if we think there could
11 be a possibility to try something, different angle,
12 alternatives, options, et cetera, et cetera. It's not
13 like we just don't go down one trail and say, no, if
14 this doesn't go, it's not going to go. That's not how
15 we operate.
16 But it seems no matter what we try to do
17 here, we get stopped or held back.
18 So, as a consequence, as a result, we started
19 to lose hope.
20 And looked for reasons why.
21 And ultimately for a way out.
22 So basically you lose your sense of belonging
23 in the area.
24 Where do we go?
25 We have 30 years of our lives invested here
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1 based on the surety of government tenures and empty
2 promises.
3 We are Canadians with no rights.
4 Why have we been held on?
5 You make your plans around us, for us, with
6 our lives, yet fail to include us or at least give us
7 the option to say "yes" or "no" or "maybe".
8 Talk about betrayal.
9 It's a shame about this.
10 Yeah, anyway.
11 We have a right to speak out against what
12 will harm us and others.
13 We have a duty to protect our rights and
14 others.
15 For when we are looking out for each other,
16 we are looking out for ourselves.
17 If we all spend more time concerning
18 ourselves with our common human needs and less on
19 emphasizing our differences, we wouldn't need to worry
20 about who has got our back or who our real friends and
21 neighbours are.
22 We are all Canadians. What a great privilege
23 we enjoy.
24 In closing, this could happen to you. This
25 could happen to anyone to end up in this position.
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1 Again, we say "no" to the mine and B.C.'s
2 exclusion of us all.
3 Sincerely, Sig, Kelly, Justin, Jesse, Kelsey,
4 and Kara Reuter.
5 Now, you have the papers that I have given
6 you there. There's some more evidence that I don't
7 really think we need to talk about right now that we
8 basically tried to start this process again. There's
9 e-mails to ILMB.
10 And again, the thing that sticks out very
11 clearly here, that there is definitely a biassed here,
12 is that Taseko Mines was asked by the Province to
13 basically, you know, a number of years ago, to
14 basically restart this Project, and, you know, as
15 mineral prices and stuff go up. So it's like there's
16 an industry and, we must not make any beefs about it,
17 it is, it has an environmental impact.
18 I mean, yes, I am sure you can and will and
19 try to minimize them as much as you can, but it still
20 has huge impacts for the way we know it today.
21 But, but we have tried and tried to get
22 something going with the Province and stopped every
23 single time. So something is very, very wrong here
24 with our government, with our B.C. Government.
25 Anyway, now, at this point the questions I
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1 was just going to ask if I would have a few minutes or
2 if it's relevant or if it needs to be a question
3 period, I have a few questions for Taseko. Or if that
4 should be done in writing?
5 THE CHAIRMAN: I think at this point,
6 Mr. Reuter, it would be best if you could table the
7 questions to Taseko rather than have them respond
8 perhaps right now.
9 MR. REUTER: I should do it now?
10 THE CHAIRMAN: If you could table them with
11 us and --
12 MR. REUTER: You have those from the last
13 presentation.
14 THE CHAIRMAN: Oh, from the presentation in
15 Williams Lake?
16 MR. REUTER: Yes, except we didn't raise
17 them then.
18 THE CHAIRMAN: Yes. Then they are on our
19 record and Taseko has them, we could ask Taseko to
20 respond to those.
21 MR. REUTER: Respond in writing?
22 THE CHAIRMAN: To you I think would be the
23 appropriate thing to do. So we could have them
24 respond to you in writing, I think, if that is
25 acceptable.
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1 MR. REUTER: Okay.
2 THE CHAIRMAN: Acceptable to Taseko as well,
3 I see, so.
4 MR. REUTER: Because all of them are
5 relevant to, or important to everybody in this room,
6 so.
7 So just -- what have we got, the pictures
8 here, where Joseph...
9 So just -- hold on, hold on, the thing's
10 going crazy here. I just have to back up here one.
11 And one thing that -- Wayne has indicated
12 about the larger footprint. Now, I do realize the
13 size of mine, whatever, a few thousand hectares, and
14 the size of the area relatively small. No question.
15 There's thousands of square miles out there.
16 But for, again, from a perspective of
17 wilderness tourism, that's what I represent, every
18 mountain, every high spot above probably a tree line,
19 which is just slightly over 6700 feet, we will be
20 looking at the mine site.
21 Like, right now, I'm two hours above Taseko
22 Lake Lodge sitting on the top of Vic's Mountain. And
23 right behind you see Fish Lake. And if you follow the
24 valley directly flowing south out of Fish Lake into
25 Fish Lake, you come to Nabas. And you'll see some of
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1 the -- all the meadows showing there.
2 So right there, from a wilderness
3 perspective, that mountain is no longer of interest to
4 us. We will not be able to take tourists up there and
5 show them the sites.
6 So that's one.
7 Now the entire mountain range around there
8 from Buck Mountain, Taseko Mountain, Red Mountain,
9 Anvil Mountain, you are looking down into -- thank
10 you -- you're looking down into the mine.
11 The mine also -- if you look directly below
12 us, is Taseko Lake Lodge.
13 The ridge -- from Fish Lake up to Nabas, up
14 over here is probably Wasp Lake, so the actual
15 footprint is from Wasp Lake all the way to the north
16 end of Fish Lake, because that's where the actual pit
17 is.
18 The natural ridge runs along here directly
19 above the Lodge.
20 Now, you know, given by some of your maps, I
21 view that probably the closest you'll ever be to us
22 will be probably 1.5 to 2 kilometres.
23 Now, this is totally unacceptable for what we
24 are doing there. It's totally incompatible.
25 So -- and that's the huge outcry against the
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1 B.C. Government to having completely ignored our
2 presence at Taseko.
3 Okay, I'll carry on here.
4 So you got the same scope of land.
5 Okay, just one second here.
6 Another interesting thing, talking about the
7 B.C. Government, we are looking at the -- what just
8 happened? The logging directly above the -- the Fish
9 Creek corridor. That logging, to me, they pushed a
10 logging road in a number of years ago right to the end
11 of the road, which is exactly on the eastern boundary
12 of the mining claim.
13 Now, I mean, you know, call me one that has
14 conspiracy theories, but the fact of the matter is
15 that this is exactly the outlines of the mine.
16 And so, anyway, I can't help but think that,
17 you know, there's big plans there.
18 So there's Wasp Lake in the lower right.
19 Again, there's the other end.
20 There's Wasp Lake, and directly where you see
21 the Muddy Creek behind the little tool bar there,
22 that's Beece Creek flowing into Taseko.
23 So you're -- thank you, sorry. To the left,
24 sorry, I forgot.
25 And, again, it gives you an idea how close we
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1 are actually to this development up here. That's --
2 we call it Little Loon Lake. But that's the height of
3 the land right there.
4 So it is from basically here to there.
5 That's your closest neighbour.
6 We are your closest neighbour.
7 And actually, no, let me back up. We're not.
8 This is our Lodge. We are not your closest neighbour.
9 Your closest neighbour will be Tom and Alice because
10 they are right at Little Fish Lake, which will be
11 probably about the middle of the containment area.
12 So that was the Lodge.
13 That's Wasp Lake.
14 And basically right here, that would be the
15 southern border of Prosperity Lake is probably planned
16 somewhere other here. Just correct me if I'm wrong.
17 And down over here would be Little Fish Lake,
18 smack in the middle of this flood zone. And that's, I
19 do believe, where Alice is planning to reside again.
20 So I'll just -- there's another good one.
21 There's Anvil Mountain in the back. The mountain
22 chain to the right is the -- is south of Beece Creek.
23 So again, every mountain that you climb, and
24 that's what we do, that's how we make our money, we
25 climb mountains, we don't dig them up, we use them to
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1 get a vantage point for a view. Anyway, we're looking
2 back at the mine.
3 So it is, to us, a huge, huge area which we
4 would be losing for this mine.
5 That's Taseko Lake. South. Red Mountain
6 chain.
7 All of you know this. But I'm just saying it
8 for the record.
9 That's our place. Lots of snow.
10 Speaking of lots of snow, one concern we do
11 have with the new proposed Prosperity Lake, the
12 potential re-routing of a huge watershed, some of the
13 water that, if you do have too much water up there,
14 it's going to end up in Beece Creek. And not only
15 will we have concerns about the quality of water,
16 because it's that much water never ended up flowing
17 that way, we also have concerns about the flooding.
18 And when you live next to a living body of water, and
19 I know most people here do, even little creeks like
20 the one behind the office here, if there's a lot of
21 snow, they swell up and they can do a lot of damage.
22 And Beece Creek has come fairly close to the
23 edge.
24 Now, even, you know, a few more, you know, a
25 thousand or a million cubic metres, I'm no expert, but
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1 it wouldn't take a lot of water to make it come over
2 the banks.
3 So those are all issues that we have concerns
4 with that really nobody can answer. Nobody can give
5 us the surety that that will not happen. I mean, it's
6 impossible. Because you yourselves don't really know
7 all the things that can happen up there. A high snow
8 winter. Whatever.
9 So this is up at the meadows. This is in the
10 wintertime, actually, when our horses feed up there.
11 They do the same as the wild horses.
12 They graze.
13 And there is a lot of grass up there.
14 This -- we had to take them out early this
15 year. This is a good example. We had about three
16 feet of snow up there in the first week of December.
17 Our range runs out at the 31st of December, so
18 consequently we had too much snow for them to
19 effectively graze anymore, so we had to take them out.
20 But it shows you, again, the value that we
21 put on this area as well as many other people.
22 THE CHAIRMAN: Okay, I think, Mr. Reuter, if
23 you could summarize or bring to a close. We're
24 getting tight for time.
25 MR. REUTER: Okay, okay, then that's fine.
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1 You have these pictures. And so, in contrast, are we
2 just about -- what I would like to quickly show, and I
3 know this is Fish Lake, Fish Lake with fish, and
4 they're alive, they are without worms. This is not
5 the whole thing. It doesn't matter. What I wanted to
6 show -- oh, no, yes, it is. These are the old
7 pictures. And there is Jimmy Bullion on the left.
8 But I wanted to show you just a slight
9 contrast. And perhaps from all that you have seen
10 there now, intact for many, many years operated,
11 making money.
12 In closing I would like to show you what we
13 have experienced mining does. I'm trying to catch it
14 here.
15 Yeah, so this is up at Battleman. And it's
16 not against Taseko. Taseko hasn't been there. Other
17 outfits have. But this is some of the overlap issues
18 that we are dealing with. This is what we find in
19 areas that we take our horses to.
20 And it doesn't sit well. You can't take
21 tourists there, especially international tourists.
22 They will lose their drive to come to British
23 Columbia.
24 Anyway, that's very unfortunate that this is
25 able to basically happen.
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1 And, yeah, so. Anyway. So that's the
2 contrast.
3 THE CHAIRMAN: Thank you, Mr. Reuter, for
4 bringing your concerns to us and your views and
5 showing us the lovely paragraphs of the area as well.
6 I think in the light of time, or with the
7 limited time, we probably will pass on any questioning
8 at this stage.
9 And Taseko, perhaps did you have a question,
10 or?
11 MR. BELL-IRVING: I'm very mindful of the time.
12 I just have two or three very short questions but,
13 again, I can put those in writing if that's a means to
14 help us.
15 THE CHAIRMAN: I think that would be helpful
16 if you wouldn't mind and then we can perhaps have
17 Mr. Reuter respond to them if that would be possible
18 as well.
19 MR. REUTER: So those questions would come
20 directly to us or via the -- how will that?
21 THE CHAIRMAN: Via the Panel. We'll make
22 them available to you.
23 MR. REUTER: Okay, okay. Thank you.
24 THE CHAIRMAN: Thank you again for your
25 presentation, Mr. Reuter.
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1 MR. REUTER: And thank you for your time.
2 THE CHAIRMAN: We next have Mabel Solomon
3 and family, please.
4 Do you want to start while we get the photos
5 loaded? If you wish to start, yes, that would be
6 fine, thank you.
7 PRESENTATION BY JAMES LULUA SENIOR, DINAH LULUA, MABEL
8 SOLOMON, AND FAMILY:
9 MR. J. LULUA SR: Good morning, Panel,
10 Mr. Chairman, Taseko.
11 Hi. My name is James Lulua Senior. And I'm
12 going to speak just briefly about my grandmother Emily
13 Ekks, which I haven't put on the paper, my grandmother
14 Emily Ekks Lulua. You can see the picture up there on
15 the pencil sketch on the top corner there.
16 My grandmother talked about Teztan Biny a
17 lot. I was about 8, 10 years old at the time. She
18 used to talk about Jimmy Williams and family that
19 resided in Nabas area south of Fish Lake where they
20 made hay for their cattle and horses. The stories I
21 heard were back in 1960.
22 And, Mr. Chairman, grandmother never spoke
23 much about how much cattle they raised because she
24 never -- she didn't know how to count. So I spoke to
25 a family member and they said the family raised 50
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1 head of cattle and 60 head of horses.
2 And the best of my knowledge, in the west
3 Chilcotin area, nobody had no less than 50 head of
4 cattle. That was the main source for them.
5 She used to say that people lived in Fish
6 Lake area to fish and hunt in the summer and fall and
7 also travelled through Teztan Biny to go to Lillooet
8 for stampede to compete in the events and mountain
9 race.
10 For me, I never knew about Teztan Biny and I
11 didn't really know where it was. Because I grew up at
12 Henry's Crossing and Eagle Lake area. It's about 30,
13 50 kilometres west from here.
14 I came into Xeni in 1968 or '69 and with my
15 own eyes I saw how beautiful the Nemiah Valley was.
16 Then in 1973, '74, I went up to Teztan Biny
17 in May to do some fishing with my cousin Roy Lulua.
18 When we arrived at Teztan Biny, I could not
19 believe how beautiful it was.
20 Seeing it with my own eyes, now I know what
21 my grandmother Emily Ekks Lulua was talking about.
22 I lived in Xeni since 1969 and to this day my
23 family goes up to Teztan Biny to fish and pick Indian
24 tea once a year and also other medicines which I
25 didn't provide on there.
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1 At this time, we checked on our cattle that
2 we range up in the area. When I say "we", that's the
3 Solomon ranch.
4 We also travelled to Red Mountain to hunt
5 deer and moose in the fall time, again once a year in
6 the fall time.
7 We camp at Fish Lake on weekends so that we
8 can spend time with our family. And you cannot find
9 any place as pretty as Teztan Biny.
10 We do have big connections with the nature of
11 Teztan Biny. We have Elders Gathering and work with
12 the youth about values of our culture at Teztan Biny.
13 And it's very important to us because we are
14 connected to the land like we are connected to our
15 youth. And also our new generations coming into this
16 world.
17 Therefore, we need to keep this beauty as is,
18 as it is so our young generations to come can enjoy
19 the land and the culture so that we can teach, so they
20 can teach their children.
21 Yes, there will be a big impact on our
22 community, our culture, and our traditional values
23 that have been carried over from generations to
24 generations.
25 This will also affect the land surrounding
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1 Teztan Biny. If the mine does go through, what are we
2 going to say to the youth who don't really understand
3 the meaning of mine? Also the newborns that are
4 coming into this world?
5 I have a grandchild coming.
6 Okay, excuse me.
7 THE CHAIRMAN: If you need to take a moment,
8 that's fine.
9 MR. JAMES LULUA SR: What are we going to tell
10 them about Teztan Biny? That it was a lake once here
11 and now it's been drained? How do we explain that?
12 The Prosperity Lake they talk about is not
13 going to replace the Teztan Biny and it is not going
14 to be the same. You destroy the lake and the land, it
15 will never be replaced.
16 If my grandmother Emily Ekks Lulua was alive
17 today, she would think this was a joke.
18 The whole area will be destroyed and it will
19 never be the same and the connections to the area will
20 be hard to deal with if the mine goes ahead.
21 Yes, I do believe that there will be
22 contamination in the whole area.
23 And that will be my first grandchild.
24 Can I be excused? My mom-in-law's niece can
25 translate for her.
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1 THE CHAIRMAN: Yes. I was going to ask you
2 to introduce -- this is your mother-in-law, perhaps
3 introduce her and you want to translate this for her?
4 MS. DINAH LULUA: Hi. My name is Dinah Lulua.
5 This is my mother Mabel Solomon and she's 87 years old
6 and she was born right here in the valley and raised
7 all her children here. And several of our family
8 members are right behind us.
9 THE CHAIRMAN: Thank you.
10 MS. D. LULUA: I talked to Mabel last night
11 for about an hour, and before I read what she had to
12 say, I wanted to add a few things.
13 Mabel is my aunt, my mother's sister. She
14 speaks only Tsilhqot'in. She reminds me of my mother
15 a lot. She's very spiritual. She probably, like my
16 mother, prays everywhere she goes. She has good
17 thoughts wherever she is.
18 And my mother has been the best teacher I've
19 ever had. And I'm sure Mabel has been the same with
20 her children.
21 It was mentioned a few days ago or yesterday
22 that Tsilhqot'in people are very shy. They like the
23 quiet life and they are very humble.
24 It's very difficult to come up here. And
25 she, Mabel, is having a very difficult time with this
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1 and she can't understand why anyone would destroy
2 places and destroy lakes.
3 Tsilhqot'in People have been documented as
4 being revengeful and fierce and all that, but they may
5 have been that way only because they love the land so
6 much and they love their people so much.
7 And I also want to say that Tsilhqot'in
8 People don't generally predict the future in our
9 culture. It's not a thing we do. Because we don't
10 know the future. But in the case of Prosperity Mine,
11 we feel at the soul level that mining at Teztan is
12 absolutely wrong. And Mabel is already feeling the
13 impacts of Prosperity Mine even at this stage in the
14 process.
15 And we are all feeling this. It may not
16 appear to you here during this hearing, but we are all
17 crying under the surface.
18 And Mabel told me last night, these are her
19 words, and I translated her words:
20 "I speak the truth when I speak. I
21 have shared my views about the
22 proposed mine many times at the
23 Xeni community meetings held
24 previously. And Prosperity Mine
25 has not heard me. Prosperity has
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1 ears but does not hear. It is
2 difficult for me to speak now. My
3 voice has been failing me for some
4 time now and I cannot speak like I
5 used to. In my youth, I loved to
6 sing. I used to sing with Donald
7 Myers from Stone. I would have
8 participated in the talent
9 show last night if I could.
10 Jamadis is my father's brother and
11 he and his wife Midi used to live
12 at Nabas. And their youngest
13 child was a boy and he was still
14 in a baby basket when his mother
15 died at Nabas. Jamadis visited us
16 in Xeni and he told me that Harry
17 Seymour and his wife Elizabeth
18 Seymour and Johnny Hance and his
19 wife Madeline Hance were his
20 neighbours. Johnny and
21 Madeleine's son Douglas Hance was
22 approximately 5 year old at that
23 time."
24 And I just found out just a while ago that
25 the Hance house was built in 1928, about 57 years ago.
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1 Mabel said:
2 "My husband Henry Solomon and I
3 rode horses to Lillooet with
4 Jamadis who knew the Lillooet
5 trail. My son Donald was around
6 five years old and Ivan was one."
7 And Ivan is sitting right behind me.
8 "I had to strap Ivan to my back on
9 this horseback trip. On our
10 return over the mountain, Jamadis
11 had us make camp in one place and
12 there we harvested esghunsh,
13 yellow glacier lily roots.
14 Jamadis used a pick to turn the
15 sod over for us while we gathered
16 the roots.
17 My son Donald used his
18 fingers to dig for these roots and
19 he dug until his fingernails broke
20 off. At this age, Donald
21 considered my mother to be his
22 mother, so he was putting his
23 roots into my mother's sack rather
24 than into my own.
25 After the Baptiste and Hance
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1 families left Nabas, Jimmy and
2 Amelia William moved there with
3 his family."
4 And Jimmy is Mabel's oldest brother.
5 "Jamadis was Jimmy's uncle. Jimmy
6 had only two sons, Joseph William
7 and Marvin William, at this time
8 and they lived at Biny Gunchagh in
9 Nabas.
10 Jimmy had ten more children
11 while living in Nabas.
12 My husband Henry Solomon and
13 I moved to Nabas over 30 years
14 ago.
15 My son Ronnie and
16 daughter-in-law Marty had no
17 children at this time.
18 We ranged our cattle from
19 Cable Cross to Nabas, including
20 Onion Flats, Fish Lake, and other
21 lakes behind Nabas, and during the
22 spring, summer and fall months,
23 and we still hold range permits.
24 Today, my son Wilfred William,
25 daughter Dinah Lulua, and
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1 son-in-law James Lulua, continue
2 to hold grazing permits in this
3 range.
4 Each year we camped at Cable
5 Cross first, then moved to the
6 many other places wherever my
7 husband hunted.
8 At the spring pasture in
9 Jididzay, Big Onion Lake, the
10 range grass was ready earlier than
11 at the other grazing locations
12 further east and south.
13 From Jididzay, we moved our
14 cattle up the hill to Teztan, Fish
15 Lake, and we moved to Nabas to put
16 up winter hay.
17 I enjoy having moose and deer
18 meat in my diet, but while living
19 in Xeni, I do not get as much
20 moose and deer meat as I would
21 like. When my husband was still
22 living, we ate meat three times a
23 day.
24 I also like eating trout and
25 salmon. Spring salmon come up by
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1 Cable Cross and come up Taseko
2 River at the narrows and here
3 Tsilhqot'in put in fish nets to
4 catch them.
5 Tsilhqot'in trapped at Teztan
6 in the winter months and camped
7 there during the summer to hunt.
8 Tsilhqot'in also come to
9 Teztan together, plant food and
10 medicine, like balsam fir,
11 Labrador tea, low bush
12 blueberries, kinnikinnick, and
13 soapberries. And, according to my
14 sister Eileen William, our mother
15 used to make tea out of soapberry
16 branches.
17 Presently, Teztan is
18 continuously used in the same way.
19 And it is also a summer place for
20 Gatherings and a place for
21 children to gather traditional
22 food resources.
23 If Prosperity Mine goes
24 ahead, the results of the mining
25 will cause contamination to our
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1 food sources.
2 The trout, salmon, wildlife,
3 plants, berries, and the water
4 will no longer be fit to
5 consume.
6 Prosperity Mine
7 representatives say that they will
8 be able to contain the toxins.
9 But my knowledge of natural water
10 sources in the area, both above
11 ground and under ground, lead me
12 to think otherwise.
13 All the water in the mine
14 site and all water downstream will
15 be contaminated.
16 I have shared this with
17 Prosperity Mine at meetings here
18 many times in this room, but they
19 do not hear.
20 I do not want mining to occur
21 within my grazing area. Our
22 cattle will be ingesting
23 contaminants and drinking toxic
24 water. We will no longer be able
25 to consume the moose, deer, wild
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1 chickens, trout, or salmon in this
2 area.
3 I am certain that wildlife
4 will drink from the contaminated
5 water sources. Plants will be
6 affected as well.
7 I was able to see my cabin in
8 Nabas last year. My cabin is
9 situated in the area of the
10 proposed tailings pond.
11 I don't understand why anyone
12 needs to destroy our homes and our
13 land. How can Tsilhqot'in use
14 Nabas again?
15 What wild food resources can
16 we live on?
17 Where else can I range my
18 cattle?
19 Prosperity Mine is taking
20 what belongs to us and they are
21 willing to kill us in the
22 process."
23 THE CHAIRMAN: Thank you. And thank
24 Mrs. Solomon on my behalf, please, for her
25 presentation.
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1 Does that conclude the presentation?
2 SPEAKER: In our family, we have eight boys
3 and three girls, and behind me we have Maryann
4 Solomon, Gilbert Solomon, Ronnie Solomon, Ivan
5 Solomon, and we also have Donald Haller, Wilfred
6 Haller, here in the valley, Wilfred William.
7 Okay, I'm just going to submit most of my
8 speech. I just want to shorten it. I just want to
9 express my concerns.
10 The mining people say there won't be release
11 from the tailings. All our lakes and streams and
12 rivers naturally seep into the ground. How can they
13 stop that?
14 If the earth shakes for any reason, it will
15 cause cracks everywhere. Chemicals will poison our
16 underground watershed all the way down to Taseko River
17 eventually to Vancouver.
18 Chemicals will be draining into other lake
19 streams and underground watersheds. It will destroy
20 everything in its path.
21 The Fraser River already has toxic waste from
22 cities and mines all the way down from where it starts
23 to Vancouver.
24 When you start digging into the ground, the
25 wind will blow poisonous chemicals into surrounding
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1 areas contaminating lakes, streams, rivers and
2 vegetation.
3 Animals, birds, plants, gardens and humans
4 will die.
5 Who is responsible for leaks from the
6 tailings 20, 50, 100 years from now after the mine is
7 gone?
8 Would you ever look back?
9 I don't think so.
10 We the people of Xeni will always be here and
11 we'll be here forever.
12 We never gave up our land and don't ever plan
13 to in the future. Money and greed has blinded you.
14 Wake up. Our world is already in trouble. It is
15 slowly dying from pollution. Put your energy towards
16 fixing that.
17 Thank you very much.
18 THE CHAIRMAN: Thank you. Thank you also
19 for summarizing your presentation. We have the full
20 text in front of us. And we will read that. Thank
21 you again for the presentation.
22 I think we have time to hear from Marvin
23 William. And I think we then would have -- I'm not
24 sure if we'll be nearing an end at that point, but
25 Marvin, perhaps you could go ahead, please.
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1 SPEAKER: Ronnie was still speaking for
2 the Solomon family.
3 MR. CHAIRMAN: Yes, I have Ronnie on the
4 list, too. If you can both be short, that would be
5 wonderful.
6 MR. R. SOLOMON: Yes, Loretta will show the
7 photos for us.
8 THE CHAIRMAN: So, just so I know, you are
9 Ronnie Solomon? Okay, welcome. And was Marvin
10 William here as well to speak?
11 SPEAKER: Yeah, he's in the house.
12 He's probably here. He'll be later just after Ronnie.
13 THE CHAIRMAN: Thank you, Mr. Solomon,
14 please proceed.
15 PRESENTATION BY MR. RONNIE SOLOMON, AS INTERPRETED BY
16 FORMER CHIEF ROGER WILLIAM:
17 MR. R. SOLOMON: (Aboriginal language spoken).
18 (INTERPRETED BY FORMER CHIEF ROGER WILLIAM):
19 Since 1982, Ronnie Solomon had made
20 arrangements with Alexis Creek Range Management. He
21 obtained a grazing and cutting permit. Later his
22 parents joined. This change had to be made with
23 cattle ranching at the time being one of the few means
24 of having livelihood during the time period. We
25 needed to create more grazing and hay meadow lands for
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1 the family. During this time, Ronnie had trapped
2 extensively in this area. This had to be done to
3 supplement the income of ranching. Ronnie and William
4 Esnardi (phonetic) trapped beaver, lynx, and fisher.
5 Furs were shipped through Edmonton for auctions, which
6 was based out of Williams Lake in 1980s.
7 (Aboriginal language spoken)
8 In order to get to know this area, Norman
9 William, Jimmy Bulyan's son, was asked many times to
10 accompany Ronnie into this area and act as a guide.
11 Norman was asked who helped, because his family lived
12 in Nabas, Bulyan area, and he could pass forward
13 information to Ronnie of what areas were good for
14 hunting, trapping and cattle grazing.
15 Ronnie and Norman would have to camp out for
16 a better part of the summer to just to be able to get
17 cattle used to the new range.
18 (Aboriginal language spoken)
19 After Norman William, other people who helped
20 guide and show more of the area to Ronnie were his
21 dad, Henry Solomon, Andrew Quilt Senior from Stoney,
22 they came and stayed with other members of their
23 families to help out with moving the cattle on range,
24 hunting and haying.
25 Other families that had lived in that area,
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1 aside from the Solomon family, came and visited while
2 they were either hunting or fishing in the area.
3 People from -- included Andrew Quilt Junior,
4 a nephew of Andrew Quilt Senior, his wife Betty
5 Cooper, and Betty's grandmother Madeleine Hance, these
6 are Yunesit'in and Tsilhqot'in members.
7 (Aboriginal language spoken)
8 Francis Myers, Leonard Pomateer (phonetic),
9 Ronnie's wife's brother, Chad and Shane Norris, helped
10 Ronnie to clear a path for building a drift fence for
11 the cattle to stop them from going down to Onion Lake.
12 (Aboriginal language spoken)
13 They also helped put hay up on the meadows,
14 as hay was put up using horses only and all the work
15 was done by hand.
16 During this time, we wrote several letters to
17 Ron Reece, who was with the Ministry of Forests during
18 the mid-1980s. We had asked if we could build a drift
19 fence to stop the cattle from moving down to Onion
20 Lake during their summer range when they were supposed
21 to be on the upper Fish Lake range. We only received
22 permission to fence in May. We wrote and asked for
23 extensions explaining that the fence line could not be
24 built then because of the amount of snow. We were
25 never granted an extension and no one from the
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1 Ministry of Forests would come and see the range
2 conditions in May. They would only come in the
3 summer.
4 This led to Ronnie's decision to refuse
5 paying range fees. His thoughts were why pay an
6 organization that is not willing to allow us for us to
7 make range improvements.
8 (Aboriginal language spoken)
9 Henry and Mabel Solomon also agreed that they
10 all believed that this area had always been used by
11 families from Anaham, Stone, and Nemiah Valley, so we
12 should not have to be paying any outside organization
13 for what already belongs to us.
14 Wilfred William and Mabel Solomon still range
15 their cattle in this area to date.
16 (Aboriginal language spoken)
17 PRESENTATION BY MS. MARTY SOLOMON:
18 MS. M. SOLOMON: I'm not going to speak on
19 these pictures, but the reason why I'm submitting it
20 is to show the cultural richness of our area and also
21 showing the -- since I came over here in probably been
22 in the Nemiah Valley since 1978, I moved over here in
23 1979, I've tried to document all of the rich cultural
24 things and also showing what we do with our land. And
25 where we always have youth included.
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1 When I first moved in, we used to bring
2 students up to the Mt. Tatlow area to show them that
3 area. We don't only use one piece of land, we move
4 all over.
5 Later there was Gatherings over in the
6 Henry's Crossing. The youth are always included,
7 along with the Elders, and we'll work together.
8 And I'm just going to submit this to the
9 Panel. This is just showing our cultural diversity
10 and what we share with our youth.
11 THE CHAIRMAN: Thank you. I didn't get your
12 name for the record.
13 MS. M. SOLOMON: Marty Solomon.
14 THE CHAIRMAN: Thank you. They look like
15 beautiful pictures and we'll accept them with pleasure
16 and keep them on our record.
17 I think at this point we are now nearing the
18 end of the presentations, but in accordance with our
19 Procedures, we would like to hear from Taseko in terms
20 of how they may respond to many issues that have been
21 raised here in the last three-and-a-half days.
22 We will also -- Chief Baptiste also wanted to
23 say a few words in closing, and that's quite
24 appropriate, so we would do that afterwards. And then
25 I believe there'll be a closing prayer and ceremony.
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1 I have a few words to say in conclusion as
2 well, before that.
3 Oh, I'm sorry.
4 FORMER CHIEF ROGER WILLIAM: Marvin is here.
5 THE CHAIRMAN: I'm sorry, Marvin, please
6 proceed.
7 My apology, I jumped too quick. I didn't
8 mean to do that.
9 PRESENTATION BY MR. MARVIN WILLIAM, AS TRANSLATED BY
10 FORMER CHIEF ROGER WILLIAM:
11 MR. M. WILLIAM: (Aboriginal language
12 spoken).
13 He stayed and lived in Nabas from in the '70s
14 to the '80s.
15 (Aboriginal language spoken)
16 He did a lot of trapping, including lynx.
17 (Aboriginal language spoken)
18 Hunting. Raised cattle as well.
19 (Aboriginal language spoken)
20 Raised horses as well.
21 (Aboriginal language spoken)
22 Haying, ranching.
23 (Aboriginal language spoken)
24 In the Big Onion Lake area, also ranched,
25 raised cattle.
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1 (Aboriginal language spoken)
2 Lived in Onion Lake raising cattle.
3 (Aboriginal language spoken)
4 Fishing, I guess harvesting fish in the area.
5 (Aboriginal language spoken)
6 At the narrows or where the river comes out
7 of the Taseko Lake, done a lot of fishing there,
8 including gill netting, spring salmon.
9 (Aboriginal language spoken)
10 Drying fish, salmon.
11 (Aboriginal language spoken)
12 For the winter, prepare for the winter,
13 drying fish.
14 (Aboriginal language spoken)
15 Also guided for Taseko Lodge.
16 (Aboriginal language spoken)
17 And in the Nabas area, also guided in that
18 area.
19 (Aboriginal language spoken)
20 In the Fish Lake area as well, Nabas, Fish
21 Lake, Wasp Lake areas, all those.
22 (Aboriginal language spoken)
23 Nabas, Saysho (phonetic).
24 (Aboriginal language spoken)
25 Throughout the whole area, been guiding in
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1 those areas.
2 (Aboriginal language spoken)
3 Always haying as well.
4 (Aboriginal language spoken)
5 Feeding cattle all winter.
6 (Aboriginal language spoken)
7 Today, takes the children and grandchildren
8 to Fish Lake fishing.
9 (Aboriginal language spoken)
10 Teaching the children fishing.
11 The children love it, they love going up
12 there with them fishing and learning how to fish.
13 (Aboriginal language spoken)
14 Children like to go back up there so they
15 always bring the children back every year, every
16 summer.
17 (Aboriginal language spoken)
18 Everyone in his family that -- everyone he
19 talks to, they don't want that Teztan Biny or Yan Nabi
20 (phonetic) to be destroyed.
21 (Aboriginal language spoken)
22 He, too, also don't agree with destroying of
23 the lakes.
24 (Aboriginal language spoken)
25 To drain the lake, he don't agree, he doesn't
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1 like it. Don't like it at all.
2 (Aboriginal language spoken)
3 Thank you.
4 (Aboriginal language spoken)
5 THE CHAIRMAN: Thank you, Mr. William, for
6 sharing your history and your time you spent in that
7 area with us today. Appreciate that.
8 I will now call on Taseko to respond to many
9 things, I'm sure, that they have heard over the last
10 three-and-a-half days.
11 RESPONSE TO UNDERTAKING BY TASEKO:
12 MR. BELL-IRVING: Thank you, Mr. Chairman. I
13 had indicated that prior to giving the response, that
14 I was going to provide an undertaking, a response to
15 an undertaking that Chief Baptiste raised in her
16 opening remarks and I can either do that, or not, as
17 you wish.
18 THE CHAIRMAN: Yes, in fact I recall that
19 you had so indicated and I think this is appropriate.
20 MR. BELL-IRVING: Thank you. In response to
21 the concern raised by Chief Marilyn Baptiste in her
22 presentation to this Panel on Monday concerning why
23 the number of holes increased to 72 from 24 without
24 adequate consultation, we submit the following
25 information.
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1 An approved drilling and test pit work for
2 geotechnical purposes was conducted in 2007, but it
3 was not completed prior to the onset of winter.
4 In May of 2008, Taseko proposed to continue
5 with the remaining 24 holes required and met with the
6 Chiefs in May to describe the work and the need for
7 this information.
8 Taseko did not receive the required permit
9 for this work again until too late in the fall to
10 conduct the work.
11 In 2009, we planned to complete this work.
12 But by June of 2009, as the details of the Fish
13 Compensation Plan were crystallized during our
14 participation in the ongoing Environmental Review,
15 Taseko identified the need to have further
16 geotechnical work completed.
17 Also during this period and time, the plant
18 site design and Project infrastructure elements were
19 further modified such that additional geotechnical
20 information was required.
21 In June of 2009, an amended Notice of Work
22 was submitted that reduced the drill holes from 24 to
23 15 but added 72 test pits.
24 Taseko provided whatever archaeology and
25 wildlife information was requested from the regulatory
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1 agencies.
2 Taseko conducted a preliminary field
3 reconnaissance in the area of the new lake, a field
4 program which the Tsilhqot'in participated in.
5 Regulatory agencies identified to us issues
6 raised by the Tsilhqot'in in regarding the ATV access,
7 and additional reclamation conditions were added to
8 the permit.
9 Throughout this process, it was the
10 responsibility of the Provincial Government to
11 undertake the necessary consultation on all matters,
12 which they did.
13 For our part, we provided information and
14 co-operated fully with both Provincial Government and
15 the First Nations as appropriate.
16 That concludes our submission on the response
17 to the undertaking.
18 RESPONSE TO PROCEEDINGS IN GENERAL BY TASEKO:
19 MR. BELL-IRVING: And now, Mr. Chair, I
20 would like to respond to these hearings in this
21 community.
22 I would begin on behalf of my colleagues and
23 Taseko Mines Limited to express our heartfelt
24 gratitude and appreciation to Chief Marilyn Baptiste,
25 the Elders, the friends, and the community. We have
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1 enjoyed and appreciate your hospitality and your
2 kindness.
3 Taseko came here to listen. And we heard
4 you.
5 We came to find out more about First Nations'
6 interests and concerns.
7 There's a long record of consultation and
8 exchange of ideas between us that go far beyond these
9 last four days.
10 We are especially interested in learning more
11 about the cultural and current use of the land.
12 We heard very clearly that the Xeni are
13 opposed to mining and are opposed to our Project.
14 We listened carefully to well presented
15 comments, heartfelt views, passionate stories and
16 strongly-held beliefs.
17 We heard from a proud and resilient people, a
18 people who have endured and will endure into the
19 future.
20 We heard from both young and old of the very
21 strong connection that the Xeni have to the land and
22 their wish to preserve and practice traditional
23 values.
24 We heard that water is critical.
25 We also heard that perception can be and
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1 often is reality.
2 And that there is a great amount of mistrust
3 of companies, including Taseko, and a great amount of
4 mistrust of government.
5 We understand that much work must be done to
6 earn your trust and your support.
7 Through the four days a number of specific
8 concerns were raised which we wish to comment on.
9 Mr. Nixon suggested that the provincial EAO
10 process was somehow deficient because it did not
11 include the Tsilhqot'in perspective.
12 It's our assessment that Mr. Nixon is not
13 correct.
14 The Provincial process had the benefit of
15 extensive consultation with the Tsilhqot'in People
16 stretching back beginning in 1996, and there was
17 extensive consultation in this current process until
18 about June of 2008.
19 It was the Tsilhqot'in who decided not to
20 participate in that process.
21 Mr. Nixon suggested that the B.C. process was
22 deficient because it determined somehow that the EIS
23 was to be adequate while the Panel determined that the
24 EIS was somehow insufficient.
25 Again, it's our assessment that Mr. Nixon is
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1 incorrect.
2 The difference can be attributed to the
3 difference between the two processes.
4 In the provincial process, the determination
5 of adequacy is made before the commencement of a
6 180-day Review Process. It's that 180-day Review
7 Process that provides for the fuller consideration of
8 all the issues.
9 On the other hand, the Federal Panel process
10 requires that a determination of sufficiency is made
11 prior to the commencement of the final stage of that
12 process which is, of course, this public hearing.
13 Mr. Nixon suggested that the Fish
14 Compensation Plan was somehow not feasible and was
15 only conceptual.
16 With respect to Mr. Nixon, the Fish
17 Compensation Plan is both feasible and proven.
18 Mr. Nixon tried to raise a question about the
19 meaning of "current use". In our view, there's no
20 reason to deviate from the plain meaning of the words.
21 "Current use" means "current use".
22 What we heard was that the current use of
23 Fish Lake area is that it's a place for camping, for
24 community events, and even a place to pass down
25 traditional practices from one generation to another.
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1 Fish caught in Fish Lake appear not to be a
2 significant part of the food of the Xeni people. This
3 is not intended to suggest that Fish Lake or Nabas is
4 not valued by members of Xeni, many of whom have fond
5 memories of times that they have viewed the area, or
6 whose forbearers have even lived there in the area.
7 Mr. Nixon suggested that there should be a
8 careful consideration of who benefits and who bears
9 the burden should this Project proceed.
10 Taseko believes that everyone should be able
11 to benefit from the Project.
12 Taseko is aware that the Xeni may suffer a
13 burden from the change of land use that would result
14 from the Project more than others because of their
15 special connection and physical proximity to the site.
16 However, Taseko also believes that the Xeni
17 will disproportionately benefit from the Project,
18 since they will not only receive benefits from jobs
19 and contracting opportunities, they are also entitled
20 to receive substantial direct financial benefits from
21 the Province's Resource Revenue-Sharing Policy.
22 Based on Taseko 's current Feasibility Study,
23 using the metal prices therein contained, which are, I
24 might add, considerably less than the current levels,
25 and based on a 20-year mine life, Taseko has estimated
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1 that it will pay mineral taxes to the Province in the
2 range of $500 million.
3 The Province has stated that it's prepared to
4 share these mineral tax revenues with First Nations
5 under its Resource Revenue-Sharing Policy.
6 Taseko expects that the direct financial
7 benefits flowing to the Xeni community from this
8 source will be very significant and would continue for
9 the life of the mine.
10 Mr. Nixon suggested that the Panel should
11 examine the question of whether or not this was the
12 right time for the Project to proceed, particularly in
13 light of the appeal of the decision of the late
14 Mr. Justice Vickers' decision of November 2007.
15 Taseko submits that this is exactly the right
16 time to proceed, since the Cariboo-Chilcotin area,
17 including the First Nations communities, is in
18 desperate need of jobs and other things.
19 The law is that this is not a Title area,
20 according to Mr. Vickers. If the Xeni wish to seek a
21 stay of the Panel process, that should be done in the
22 Court of Appeal and not by a request to this Panel.
23 Concerning the issue of an ongoing
24 relationship, Taseko understands and wants to address
25 this. This concern was raised by a number of people
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1 who spoke to the Panel over the last four days.
2 Taseko would like to make the following
3 observations in areas where cooperation is mandatory
4 and, from our perspective, clearly preferable.
5 Within our Provincial Licence or Certificate,
6 there are a number of very significant conditions that
7 have been imposed by the Province on Taseko in
8 connection with our Certificate. We are committed to:
9 - working with First Nations
10 governments to encourage the
11 formation and development of
12 locally owned business;
13 - to providing opportunities
14 for employment;
15 - to promoting the development
16 of mutually beneficial partners
17 with our First Nation neighbours;
18 - and to providing
19 opportunities for training and
20 career development and advancement
21 for employees.
22 In addition, we mentioned yesterday, Mining
23 Your Future. Taseko continues and remains happy to
24 arrange for that presentation to be brought to this
25 community, but only if that's of interest to this
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1 community.
2 Taseko has committed to the Panel to carry
3 out a Country Foods Study in conjunction with the
4 Xeni. It would be particularly helpful if both the
5 Xeni community and Shari Hughson would participate
6 with Taseko in such a study. This might also include
7 a revision of the INAC Community Well-Being Index that
8 we've discussed over the last few days so that it
9 would be more specific and more appropriate for this
10 community.
11 On the subject of roads, Taseko would
12 indicate that we would be happy to work with both Xeni
13 and the others' concerns, people who have raised
14 concerns, to approach the Province to improve the
15 existing roads in a manner that addresses the concerns
16 that were expressed at the public hearings and that
17 are shared by all parties.
18 With the Fish Compensation Plan, our current
19 plan includes the stocking of a number of lakes with
20 fish from Fish Lake and contemplates that the
21 selection of the lakes be conducted in cooperation
22 with the Tsilhqot'in People.
23 Right now, Taseko's getting mixed messages
24 concerning the use of stocked lakes. All of these
25 activities require or will be much improved if the
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1 Xeni will work with Taseko in developing that plan as
2 we move forward.
3 Concerning Prosperity Lake, Taseko has heard
4 a number of critical comments concerning the name of
5 that lake.
6 Let me point out that today the lake has not
7 been built nor has it been named. The name
8 "Prosperity" was assigned to the lake as a working
9 title for purposes of our Environmental Assessment.
10 Taseko would be delighted to work with the
11 Xeni to determine a more appropriate name and
12 undertake in a formal naming ceremony for that lake if
13 the community so wishes.
14 As I conclude, I would ask the Panel and the
15 community to consider and assume for a minute that
16 perhaps this mine will be built. And with the same
17 degree of thought and consideration that we've given
18 the concerns expressed in this community, we would ask
19 this community and the Panel to consider the
20 following:
21 - How might the construction
22 and operation of this mine best
23 address the concerns and views
24 that have been expressed over the
25 last four days? The mine will be
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1 here for a long time. And the
2 Xeni will be here for a long time.
3 - How best can the mine
4 contribute to the community's
5 desire to find a balance between
6 the Traditional way of life and
7 the Western way of life so that
8 the best of both can be harnessed
9 for the people of this community?
10 We heard that there's a
11 willingness to share the land, but
12 that it must be done in a
13 respectful manner. Let's spend
14 effort and energy exploring that
15 approach.
16 - And what of community health
17 and well-being?
18 We heard about the ongoing
19 struggle here against a number of
20 challenges, including the
21 retention of self-identity, mental
22 well-being, and chronic health
23 conditions that need improvement,
24 and that these are three
25 priorities for this community;
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1 nutrition, physical activity, and
2 mental health.
3 Let's explore how the mine
4 can contribute to improving those
5 important markers and objectives.
6 - The desire for compensation
7 in the event the mine proceeds
8 will be addressed through the
9 Province's policy of revenue
10 sharing.
11 How might those financial
12 resources be managed and applied
13 to address the hopes and dreams
14 for your future?
15 - Respect must be shown in all
16 phases of the development. And
17 that First Nations must have
18 significant jobs, decision making
19 jobs at the mine.
20 Let's work together towards
21 those important objectives and
22 outcomes.
23 - And what of the long-term
24 monitoring and stewardship of the
25 land and the opportunities
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1 associated with that caretaker
2 role?
3 That, too, is an opportunity
4 for people and for teaching and
5 for learning.
6 - And what of the needs and
7 interests of the broader
8 community, the needs of the people
9 of the Cariboo, the needs and
10 interests of other First Nations,
11 and the needs of the communities
12 and towns and their people that
13 make up this large and important
14 part of British Columbia and, of
15 course, the needs of the Province
16 and of Canada itself, for they,
17 too, have an interest in all of
18 this?
19 These are the things that we ask the Panel
20 and this community to ponder and to contemplate and to
21 consider in the days and weeks ahead.
22 Thank you.
23 THE CHAIRMAN: Thank you, Mr. Bell-Irving,
24 for responding to many matters that you have heard
25 during the hearings here in this community.
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1 Before I close with my remarks, I wonder,
2 Chief Baptiste wanted to say a few words in closing.
3 There she is.
4 Please come forward, Chief Baptiste.
5 CLOSING COMMENTS BY CHIEF BAPTISTE:
6 CHIEF BAPTISTE: Thank you. And I thank you
7 for coming to our community, to our territory.
8 And there was, of course, a few things. Of
9 course we thank Taseko Mines for coming again. We
10 did -- we had hopes that you heard us. I don't -- in
11 your closing remarks, I don't feel that.
12 And I just want to say with the time factor
13 and this whole process, the Federal Environmental
14 Assessment Process, as well as the B.C. process, this
15 is not adequate.
16 We have several more speakers that we have to
17 be heard and we were not given that opportunity here.
18 We are supposed to be here until 6:00 p.m. tonight and
19 we are cut short at 1 o'clock.
20 And our People here, as we sit these four
21 days, before these four days and beyond these four
22 days, are impacted. Our health is being impacted.
23 Our Elders were here for these four days from
24 start to finish. That is a very heavy, heavy matter
25 in our hearts, our minds, and our souls.
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1 And after all of this is complete, we are
2 going to have to take steps to be able to continue
3 putting together more of our submissions from our
4 people as well as debriefing for our people, for our
5 members.
6 And I can tell you that there's probably some
7 very, very, very, very angry people and very high
8 blood pressures in this room right now.
9 The land -- I mean, as the Panel has heard,
10 the one thing that I have to say, I'm honoured that
11 the Panel has heard our people.
12 The Panel has been able to hear from the
13 strength, the courage, and the creativity of our
14 people who would normally never sit before a Panel
15 such as this, and especially before someone who is
16 threatening our being here in our territory and
17 someone who is suggesting that this is not our land.
18 We have never given our land up.
19 In your formal courts, they have proven, they
20 have recognized the proven.
21 We have never given that up.
22 We have tried to work with the governments,
23 and we have said this in the past, we have been
24 continuing to work with governments and industry. We
25 have tried.
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1 And we have never given up our land, our
2 title, our rights, and our way of life. And we don't
3 intend to.
4 And, of course, you've heard many, many of
5 the testimonies from all of our people. We as leaders
6 cannot speak to all of it and that's why our people
7 need that opportunity. You have heard that very clear
8 in protecting our land, in planning, and in
9 implementing for our lands and our futures.
10 And one of the submissions that you will
11 receive in writing is Herb Hammond's plans that he's
12 been doing with the Xeni Gwet'in for several years on
13 the Ecosystem Base Plan, which is a very integral
14 piece of our planning for our lands.
15 And I just wanted to also speak to the
16 24 drill sites to the 72.
17 The simple concern there and the question
18 there was with respect to the 13 more years to the
19 life of the mine. Giving that example, you had
20 applied for 24 sites. It was amended to 72 without
21 our inclusion, without our knowledge.
22 This Application here is for 20 years for
23 this mine. And we are very well aware of your
24 intentions for 13 more years to the life of this mine.
25 Is this process going to happen the same?
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1 You receive the BC EAO Certificate for 20 years. Are
2 you going to receive a simple amendment for 13 more
3 years without any of us knowing?
4 And I know you did suggest that you may be
5 having to go through an EA process through B.C.
6 It's not adequate.
7 And, of course, I'll leave it at that just
8 because of the time factor.
9 And I'm very disappointed in this process to
10 have to cut us short. Our people were expecting to
11 have four days here.
12 And I am very proud, very honoured that our
13 people have come from many miles, some of our members
14 who don't live here in the community because he's
15 working outside the community, they have come, and our
16 Elders who have sat here throughout, and our people
17 who have stood up and voiced their opinions and their
18 concerns.
19 And I hope that this process will hear our
20 voice and will also see through these concerns.
21 And so that the consultation is not adequate.
22 (Aboriginal language spoken)
23 (Applause)
24 CLOSING REMARKS BY THE CHAIRMAN:
25 Thank you, Chief Baptiste.
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1 We have had three-and-a-half days of hearings
2 here in the community. And I will say for the record,
3 it was always planned to have three-and-a-half days
4 here in the community. That was made very clear to
5 those who were organizing these meetings with our
6 Secretariat, by our Secretariat.
7 We have enjoyed the experience very much and
8 we have appreciated all that we have heard.
9 In all of the hearings that we are
10 conducting, we have about six weeks of hearings. It
11 is clear that we are not going to hear from everybody.
12 We are not going to hear from every citizen in all of
13 these communities.
14 But we recognize that here in this community,
15 we have heard from youth, we have heard from Elders,
16 we have heard from people in between of all ages, we
17 have heard from your Chief, and we have heard from
18 Councillors.
19 We have also heard from citizens here in the
20 Nemiah Valley who are not members of First Nations.
21 And we believe we are leaving with a good
22 understanding of the importance that the community
23 attaches to Teztan Biny and also to Nabas and the
24 surrounding area.
25 We've learned about your culture and the
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1 attachment that you have to the land.
2 We also have learned about how you use and
3 have used the area that I've just mentioned.
4 You've also brought your views to us very
5 clearly.
6 We understand the views of this community
7 relative to the effects of the Proposed Project.
8 We also, in closing, want to thank you for
9 the hospitality and for the welcome we have received.
10 We understand, as Chief Baptiste said, it is often
11 difficult to come before a body such as us and speak
12 to us and we appreciate the efforts that you have made
13 in that regard.
14 This will bring us to a close today, for
15 these hearings, but we are starting again next week on
16 Wednesday and Thursday with the Stone community and on
17 Friday and Saturday with the Toosey community.
18 I wish all of you who are travelling over the
19 Easter weekend safe travels and I also wish you a
20 happy Easter. This meeting is now closed with the
21 final closing of a prayer and closing ceremony.
22 Thank you all once again.
23 (PRAYER)
24 (DRUMMING CEREMONY)
25 (PROCEEDINGS CLOSED AT 1:14 P.M.)
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3 I, Nancy Nielsen, RCR, RPR, CSR(A), Official
4 Realtime Reporter in the Provinces of British Columbia
5 and Alberta, Canada, do hereby certify:
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8 shorthand at the time and place herein set forth and
9 thereafter transcribed, and the same is a true and
10 correct and complete transcript of said proceedings to
11 the best of my skill and ability.
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14 name this 6th day of April, 2010.
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#09-05-44811 [1] - 2299:3 20 [3] - 2425:6, 2450:22, 41 [1] - 2304:4 2432:19, 2432:22, #1 [1] - 2338:25 2451:1 42 [1] - 2304:6 2432:24, 2433:2, 2433:4, #2 [1] - 2339:13 20-year [1] - 2440:25 43 [1] - 2304:6 2433:6, 2433:9, 2433:13, #3 [1] - 2340:5 2001 [1] - 2362:25 44 [1] - 2304:8 2433:17, 2433:21, #4 [1] - 2340:15 2003 [4] - 2307:23, 2364:3, 45 [2] - 2304:9, 2364:4 2433:24, 2434:2, 2434:4, #5 [1] - 2341:3 2364:8, 2365:20 450 [1] - 2338:21 2451:22 #6 [1] - 2341:11 2005 [2] - 2359:5, 2362:15 46 [1] - 2304:11 Aboriginal-White [1] - $500 [1] - 2441:2 2006 [1] - 2361:16 47 [1] - 2304:13 2315:13 '69 [1] - 2412:14 2007 [2] - 2435:2, 2441:14 48 [1] - 2304:15 absolutely [1] - 2416:12 '70s [1] - 2431:13 2008 [3] - 2376:5, 2435:4, 49 [2] - 2304:17, 2368:16 abuse [3] - 2329:24, '74 [1] - 2412:16 2438:18 4x4s [1] - 2333:16 2332:15, 2332:22 '80s [1] - 2431:14 2009 [6] - 2316:6, 2365:23, 5 [5] - 2350:5, 2391:14, accept [2] - 2387:23, 'no' [1] - 2309:15 2366:10, 2435:11, 2391:16, 2391:23, 2417:22 2430:15 1 [7] - 2299:15, 2306:5, 2435:12, 2435:21 50 [8] - 2304:19, 2317:8, acceptable [1] - 2402:25 2339:11, 2341:9, 2349:17, 2010 [3] - 2299:15, 2336:21, 2329:1, 2365:25, 2411:25, Acceptable [1] - 2403:2 2389:5, 2448:19 2454:14 2412:3, 2412:13, 2425:6 Access [4] - 2357:22, 1,658 [1] - 2309:20 214-megabyte [1] - 2380:7 500 [2] - 2331:17, 2348:14 2362:14, 2362:22, 2366:3 1.5 [1] - 2404:22 21st [1] - 2329:4 51 [1] - 2304:21 access [10] - 2347:15, 10 [4] - 2320:5, 2341:7, 2299 [1] - 2299:17 52 [1] - 2304:23 2360:1, 2362:17, 2364:24, 2368:15, 2411:17 2303 [2] - 2302:3, 2302:4 53 [1] - 2304:24 2365:3, 2366:11, 2367:4, 10.5 [1] - 2380:9 2306 [1] - 2302:5 57 [1] - 2417:25 2385:8, 2392:17, 2436:6 [1] 100 [3] - 2320:12, 2398:10, 2351 [1] - 2302:6 6 [1] - 2350:10 accommodation - 2425:6 2353 [1] - 2302:7 60 [4] - 2337:9, 2338:22, 2355:23 10:00 [1] - 2380:8 2356 [1] - 2302:8 2343:1, 2412:1 accompany [1] - 2427:10 [1] 10:30 [1] - 2305:24 2381 [1] - 2302:9 6700 [1] - 2403:19 accordance - 2430:18 11 [3] - 2340:9, 2340:22, 2383 [1] - 2302:10 6:00 [1] - 2448:18 according [2] - 2421:13, 2382:21 2389 [1] - 2302:11 6th [1] - 2454:14 2441:20 accounted [1] - 2364:4 119 [1] - 2373:9 24 [6] - 2364:5, 2434:23, 7 [1] - 2350:16 [1] 12 [1] - 2339:10 2435:5, 2435:22, 2450:16, 7,000 [1] - 2311:14 accumulate - 2355:4 accumulated [1] - 2355:1 12:30 [1] - 2305:25 2450:20 72 [4] - 2434:23, 2435:23, [1] 13 [7] - 2337:6, 2339:5, 240 [2] - 2357:7, 2375:17 2450:16, 2450:20 accusations - 2352:14 2340:2, 2450:18, 2450:24, 2411 [1] - 2302:12 8 [1] - 2411:17 acknowledging [1] - 2337:15 [1] 2451:2 2426 [1] - 2302:14 800 [2] - 2338:19, 2343:19 acquaintances - 2336:7 14 [1] - 2299:16 2429 [1] - 2302:16 87 [1] - 2415:5 acre [2] - 2375:17, 2378:22 [4] 143 [1] - 2385:21 2431 [1] - 2302:17 ability [2] - 2348:15, 2454:11 acres - 2357:7, 2358:10, 15 [4] - 2339:21, 2373:22, 2434 [1] - 2302:19 able [21] - 2306:11, 2320:2, 2358:13, 2385:21 2375:19, 2435:23 2436 [1] - 2302:20 2325:24, 2329:21, 2331:2, act [1] - 2427:10 160,000 [1] - 2350:6 2448 [1] - 2302:21 2332:4, 2353:24, 2367:22, ACT [1] - 2299:8 16th [2] - 2316:7, 2386:7 2451 [1] - 2302:22 2371:5, 2376:17, 2382:8, actions [1] - 2321:5 180-day [2] - 2439:6 2453 [1] - 2302:23 2398:21, 2404:4, 2409:25, activities [7] - 2304:10, 1928 [1] - 2417:25 2454 [1] - 2299:17 2422:8, 2422:24, 2423:7, 2336:24, 2341:22, 1949 [1] - 2393:13 250 [1] - 2339:15 2427:16, 2440:10, 2449:2, 2352:20, 2363:3, 2396:17, 1960 [1] - 2411:21 2500 [1] - 2311:19 2449:12 2443:25 activity [5] - 2341:16, 1960s [1] - 2378:4 26th [1] - 2336:21 Aboriginal [57] - 2303:12, 2343:10, 2377:1, 2392:16, 1967 [1] - 2328:20 3 [4] - 2349:23, 2391:14, 2306:19, 2315:13, 2446:1 1968 [1] - 2412:14 2391:16, 2391:23 2315:21, 2317:9, 2317:18, acts [1] - 2327:25 1969 [1] - 2412:22 30 [6] - 2357:10, 2358:8, 2318:12, 2319:6, 2350:23, actual [2] - 2404:14, 2404:16 1970s [1] - 2325:1 2384:2, 2399:25, 2412:12, 2351:17, 2355:20, adapt [1] - 2371:5 1973 [1] - 2412:16 2419:13 2356:25, 2358:17, 2359:3, adapted [1] - 2318:21 1978 [1] - 2429:22 300 [3] - 2331:18, 2361:6, 2362:23, 2368:19, add [3] - 2384:12, 2415:12, 1979 [1] - 2429:23 2373:7 2373:22, 2373:23, 2374:11, 2374:24, 2440:24 1980 [1] - 2335:4 31st [1] - 2408:17 2375:14, 2376:2, 2377:17, added [2] - 2435:23, 2436:7 1980s [1] - 2427:6 33 [2] - 2338:17, 2374:7 2426:17, 2427:7, 2427:18, addictions [1] - 2332:15 1982 [1] - 2426:19 34 [1] - 2299:8 2428:7, 2428:12, 2429:8, addition [1] - 2442:22 1989 [3] - 2362:25, 2364:16, 35 [2] - 2328:15, 2329:22 2429:16, 2431:11, additional [2] - 2435:19, 2376:1 3500 [1] - 2376:1 2431:15, 2431:17, 2436:7 1996 [1] - 2438:16 39 [1] - 2304:3 2431:19, 2431:21, address [4] - 2316:7, 19th [1] - 2336:21 4 [1] - 2350:2 2431:23, 2432:1, 2432:3, 2441:24, 2444:23, 2446:13 1:14 [2] - 2302:24, 2453:25 40 [3] - 2304:4, 2391:13, 2432:5, 2432:9, 2432:11, addressed [3] - 2345:24, 2 [5] - 2340:10, 2340:23, 2391:21 2432:14, 2432:16, 2352:1, 2446:8 2341:8, 2349:21, 2404:22 400 [2] - 2331:20, 2361:7 1 Mainland Reporting Services Inc. 604.520.3838 [email protected] Prosperity Gold-Copper Mine Project - Volume 14 - 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addresses [2] - 2309:24, allow [5] - 2305:25, 2335:14, Appeal [1] - 2441:22 2384:8, 2385:2, 2386:21, 2443:15 2355:9, 2379:12, 2429:6 appealing [1] - 2395:19 2386:22, 2390:4, 2390:10, adequacy [1] - 2439:5 Allow [1] - 2319:21 appear [2] - 2416:16, 2440:1 2393:3, 2393:5, 2393:25, adequate [5] - 2434:24, allowed [2] - 2377:4, 2378:4 appearance [1] - 2301:1 2396:18, 2399:23, 2438:23, 2448:15, 2451:6, almost [5] - 2316:23, 2336:2, APPEARANCES [1] - 2300:1 2403:14, 2406:11, 2407:3, 2451:21 2336:12, 2354:10, 2395:14 appeared [1] - 2334:8 2408:21, 2410:5, 2411:19, adequately [1] - 2350:8 alone [2] - 2311:6, 2346:21 appended [2] - 2330:21, 2412:3, 2412:6, 2412:12, administrative [4] - 2303:24, Alphonse [1] - 2322:10 2331:11 2413:2, 2414:18, 2414:19, 2304:2, 2305:4, 2305:5 altered [1] - 2313:8 Applause [2] - 2351:18, 2414:22, 2422:10, adulthood [1] - 2326:19 alternatives [1] - 2399:12 2451:23 2422:21, 2423:2, 2423:9, advancement [1] - 2442:20 amazing [3] - 2359:19, APPLICANT [1] - 2300:12 2427:2, 2427:8, 2427:10, advantage [1] - 2327:24 2372:4, 2379:16 application [2] - 2394:14, 2427:12, 2427:20, Advisory [1] - 2382:21 Amazing [1] - 2361:1 2396:11 2427:25, 2428:2, 2429:10, affect [7] - 2326:17, 2339:3, Amelia [1] - 2419:2 Application [1] - 2450:22 2429:15, 2429:20, 2430:2, 2430:3, 2431:24, 2432:4, 2339:25, 2342:24, 2346:3, amended [2] - 2435:21, applied [2] - 2446:12, 2391:11, 2413:25 2450:20 2450:20 2432:17, 2432:18, 2432:20, 2432:25, 2434:7, affected [3] - 2342:4, 2342:6, amendment [1] - 2451:2 appreciate [4] - 2382:13, 2436:3, 2439:23, 2440:5, 2423:6 America [3] - 2315:24, 2386:5, 2437:1, 2453:12 2440:6, 2441:16, 2441:19, afterwards [2] - 2388:2, 2358:24, 2370:3 Appreciate [1] - 2434:7 2452:24, 2453:3 2430:24 amount [7] - 2343:9, appreciated [1] - 2452:8 area's [2] - 2368:17, 2369:23 age [4] - 2326:20, 2329:23, 2363:10, 2392:15, 2397:7, appreciation [1] - 2436:24 areas [28] - 2323:12, 2380:10, 2418:20 2428:24, 2438:2, 2438:3 approach [4] - 2317:16, 2347:16, 2360:21, agencies [2] - 2436:1, Anaham [1] - 2429:11 2318:13, 2443:14, 2445:15 2361:19, 2363:23, 2436:5 analysis [1] - 2354:8 approached [1] - 2391:19 2366:11, 2367:18, AGENCY [1] - 2300:6 ancestors [4] - 2308:17, approaches [3] - 2316:13, 2369:25, 2371:25, ages [1] - 2452:16 2327:2, 2327:5, 2360:11 2317:3, 2317:6 2372:13, 2372:21, aggressive [1] - 2333:23 Ancient [1] - 2311:1 appropriate [8] - 2307:22, 2372:22, 2372:25, 2373:3, ago [17] - 2305:10, 2315:14, ancient [2] - 2316:2, 2325:19 2355:22, 2402:23, 2373:5, 2373:13, 2374:1, 2320:12, 2323:5, 2324:3, AND [3] - 2301:1, 2302:13, 2430:24, 2434:19, 2377:20, 2377:22, 2379:3, 2328:16, 2329:22, 2411:8 2436:15, 2443:9, 2444:11 2392:20, 2409:19, 2425:1, 2361:17, 2362:20, 2393:2, Andrew [3] - 2427:21, approval [2] - 2391:7, 2427:13, 2432:21, 2433:1, 2394:16, 2401:13, 2428:3, 2428:4 2391:11 2442:3 2405:10, 2415:21, anecdotal [1] - 2320:1 approve [1] - 2379:11 argue [4] - 2368:23, 2377:10, 2417:24, 2417:25, 2419:14 anecdote [2] - 2328:18, approved [2] - 2369:7, 2377:13 agree [3] - 2389:25, 2433:22, 2334:17 2435:1 argument [2] - 2369:14, 2433:25 angle [1] - 2399:11 April [3] - 2299:15, 2386:7, 2369:17 agreed [2] - 2382:23, 2429:9 angry [1] - 2449:7 2454:14 Arizona [1] - 2381:12 agreement [1] - 2356:1 Animals [1] - 2425:3 archaeology [1] - 2435:24 arrange [1] - 2442:24 Agreement [3] - 2304:16, animals [9] - 2314:2, Area [4] - 2362:24, 2363:22, arrangements [3] - 2305:5, 2305:3, 2393:23 2314:10, 2322:11, 2372:12, 2374:13 2380:3, 2426:20 ahead [7] - 2334:3, 2334:10, 2322:21, 2342:4, 2344:5, area [112] - 2307:6, 2307:12, arrival [1] - 2312:4 2383:8, 2414:20, 2421:24, 2346:25, 2350:14, 2360:4 2319:23, 2333:10, 2336:2, arrived [2] - 2329:3, 2412:18 2425:25, 2447:21 Annshendy [1] - 2305:17 2336:20, 2336:24, artificial [1] - 2346:14 aids [1] - 2380:23 annually [1] - 2360:17 2337:13, 2339:2, 2340:8, AS [4] - 2302:14, 2302:17, air [3] - 2341:14, 2341:15, answer [2] - 2384:10, 2408:4 2343:11, 2343:15, 2426:15, 2431:9 2396:16 answers [3] - 2311:10, 2346:22, 2348:7, 2348:12, Asia [1] - 2315:21 aircraft [1] - 2362:19 2321:18, 2398:22 2350:1, 2350:22, 2353:18, aside [2] - 2394:23, 2428:1 Alberta [1] - 2454:5 Anthropology [1] - 2335:18 2357:8, 2359:20, 2360:8, aspect [1] - 2387:20 Alcohol [1] - 2332:19 anticipated [1] - 2336:25 2360:20, 2362:4, 2363:13, aspects [1] - 2325:4 alcohol [1] - 2342:19 antithetical [1] - 2342:10 2363:23, 2364:3, 2364:5, assessment [2] - 2438:12, Alex [1] - 2304:6 Anvil [2] - 2404:9, 2406:21 2364:24, 2365:15, 2438:25 Alexis [1] - 2426:20 anyhow [1] - 2369:18 2366:24, 2367:1, 2368:9, 2368:10, 2368:20, Assessment [4] - 2364:18, Alice [5] - 2304:23, 2391:17, anyway [3] - 2398:23, 2391:7, 2444:9, 2448:14 2392:3, 2406:9, 2406:19 2400:10, 2405:16 2371:15, 2372:10, 2372:15, 2372:25, 2373:8, ASSESSMENT [3] - 2299:3, Alice's [1] - 2392:5 Anyway [4] - 2401:25, 2299:8, 2300:6 alien [2] - 2322:24, 2325:5 2407:1, 2409:24, 2410:1 2373:15, 2373:17, 2373:24, 2374:2, 2374:5, assigned [1] - 2444:8 alive [3] - 2311:12, 2409:4, apologize [1] - 2380:6 2374:6, 2374:22, 2374:25, associated [1] - 2447:1 2414:16 apology [1] - 2431:7 2375:15, 2377:16, 2379:2, Association [1] - 2352:25 Alive [1] - 2313:19 appalled [2] - 2376:8, 2379:9, 2379:11, 2379:16, assume [3] - 2336:17, all-volunteer [1] - 2307:5 2376:19 2383:11, 2383:19, 2384:7, 2377:2, 2444:15 allegedly [1] - 2386:22 appeal [1] - 2441:13 2 Mainland Reporting Services Inc. 604.520.3838 [email protected] Prosperity Gold-Copper Mine Project - Volume 14 - April 1, 2010
assumptions [1] - 2318:5 2448:4, 2451:25, 2453:10 2423:24, 2436:22 Big [4] - 2374:12, 2377:17, astounding [1] - 2383:21 bar [1] - 2405:21 behind [9] - 2378:14, 2420:9, 2431:24 AT [3] - 2299:13, 2302:24, barely [1] - 2316:2 2381:13, 2403:23, big [8] - 2346:18, 2365:20, 2453:25 bark [1] - 2370:18 2405:21, 2407:20, 2415:8, 2366:6, 2371:1, 2376:18, ate [1] - 2420:22 Base [1] - 2450:13 2418:7, 2419:21, 2424:3 2405:17, 2413:10, 2413:21 attached [1] - 2394:19 Based [1] - 2440:22 Belgium [1] - 2361:15 bigger [1] - 2365:24 attaches [1] - 2452:23 based [8] - 2321:8, 2332:8, beliefs [1] - 2437:16 biggest [2] - 2364:23, attachment [1] - 2453:1 2364:19, 2391:8, 2391:12, believes [2] - 2440:10, 2383:24 attempt [2] - 2310:6, 2329:7 2400:1, 2427:6, 2440:25 2440:16 Bighorn [1] - 2370:4 attempts [2] - 2311:5, 2311:7 basis [4] - 2352:12, 2352:14, Bell [5] - 2300:14, 2382:3, Bighorns [1] - 2362:19 attendance [1] - 2381:5 2352:21, 2393:6 2386:4, 2387:11, 2447:23 biking [1] - 2366:21 attending [1] - 2389:18 basket [1] - 2417:14 BELL [14] - 2351:22, Bill [2] - 2300:4, 2353:9 attitudes [2] - 2333:23, batteries [1] - 2369:4 2352:17, 2353:7, 2381:1, Billy [3] - 2328:21, 2393:13, 2334:1 Battison [3] - 2300:14, 2381:18, 2382:6, 2382:16, 2393:16 attributed [2] - 2365:25, 2316:17, 2316:24 2386:14, 2387:13, 2388:4, binding [1] - 2351:2 2439:2 Battleman [1] - 2409:15 2410:11, 2434:12, Biny [24] - 2308:7, 2308:9, attribution [1] - 2338:4 BC [3] - 2329:5, 2382:20, 2434:20, 2436:19 2309:9, 2312:1, 2322:18, ATV [2] - 2367:21, 2436:6 2451:1 Bell-Irving [5] - 2300:14, 2333:15, 2349:16, ATVs [4] - 2333:16, 2363:11, bear [16] - 2350:13, 2360:20, 2382:3, 2386:4, 2387:11, 2351:13, 2367:5, 2411:16, 2364:11, 2367:15 2361:2, 2361:20, 2365:11, 2447:23 2412:7, 2412:10, 2412:16, auctions [1] - 2427:5 2365:14, 2365:16, 2372:4, BELL-IRVING [14] - 2351:22, 2412:18, 2412:23, 2413:9, aunt [1] - 2415:13 2372:7, 2373:6, 2373:16, 2352:17, 2353:7, 2381:1, 2413:11, 2413:12, 2414:1, 2381:18, 2382:6, 2382:16, author [1] - 2316:4 2373:18, 2377:9, 2382:21, 2414:10, 2414:13, 2419:8, 2386:14, 2387:13, 2388:4, available [2] - 2393:18, 2382:24, 2394:3 2433:19, 2452:23 2410:22 Bear [7] - 2357:9, 2357:24, 2410:11, 2434:12, Biodiversity [2] - 2313:5, 2434:20, 2436:19 average [2] - 2339:15, 2358:14, 2374:7, 2378:23, 2313:20 2339:21 2380:15, 2382:20 belong [1] - 2379:3 biological [1] - 2322:9 belonging [1] - 2399:22 avoid [1] - 2384:19 bear-viewing [1] - 2361:20 Biologist [1] - 2357:4 belongs [3] - 2347:1, aware [5] - 2323:20, bearers [1] - 2350:14 biologist [2] - 2367:6, 2355:18, 2384:18, bearing [1] - 2350:17 2423:20, 2429:13 2382:18 2440:12, 2450:23 bears [25] - 2345:10, below [6] - 2362:6, 2374:12, biologist/professional [1] - 2391:14, 2396:16, B&Bs [1] - 2337:3 2357:10, 2358:21, 2382:18 2397:12, 2404:11 B.C [15] - 2304:15, 2312:7, 2360:23, 2361:10, biologists [3] - 2368:23, 2358:19, 2361:3, 2371:23, 2362:19, 2364:21, beneficial [2] - 2394:13, 2377:11, 2382:21 2378:21, 2391:3, 2394:17, 2365:11, 2366:16, 2442:16 biology [1] - 2357:15 2396:2, 2401:24, 2405:1, 2367:10, 2370:17, benefit [3] - 2438:14, birds [2] - 2373:2, 2425:3 2405:7, 2438:21, 2448:14, 2370:20, 2371:25, 2440:11, 2440:17 birth [2] - 2326:18 2451:5 2372:14, 2373:10, benefits [7] - 2331:2, bit [6] - 2307:1, 2331:5, B.C.'s [5] - 2358:17, 2365:20, 2377:21, 2379:24, 2381:8, 2337:25, 2379:14, 2440:8, 2375:2, 2381:12, 2388:8, 2391:7, 2391:11, 2401:1 2383:11, 2383:25, 2384:6, 2440:18, 2440:20, 2441:7 2389:17 berries [1] - 2422:3 baby [1] - 2417:14 2384:19, 2384:20, 2385:9, black [1] - 2372:11 best [13] - 2310:11, 2333:2, backcountry [2] - 2360:2, 2440:8 blasting [1] - 2343:9 2363:18 beautiful [6] - 2308:20, 2333:8, 2335:20, 2372:21, blasts [1] - 2346:24 2391:11, 2402:6, 2412:2, background [1] - 2359:1 2323:22, 2379:12, blinded [1] - 2425:13 2415:18, 2444:22, 2445:3, backyard [2] - 2336:15, 2412:15, 2412:19, 2430:15 block [1] - 2385:8 2445:8, 2454:11 2336:17 beauty [1] - 2413:17 blockaded [1] - 2364:15 [1] betrayal [1] - 2400:8 bad [3] - 2307:3, 2347:13, beaver - 2427:4 blood [3] - 2320:24, 2354:7, 2373:8 became [1] - 2334:23 better [7] - 2321:19, 2325:24, 2449:8 2334:21, 2371:16, balance [2] - 2325:14, become [5] - 2315:11, blow [1] - 2424:25 2375:21, 2395:2, 2427:16 2445:5 2319:18, 2370:9, 2382:17, blue [1] - 2350:12 Betty [1] - 2428:4 balsam [1] - 2421:10 2384:21 blue-listed [1] - 2350:12 Betty's [1] - 2428:5 Band [3] - 2299:23, 2331:18, Beece [4] - 2405:22, blueberries [1] - 2421:12 between [13] - 2317:17, 2331:20 2406:22, 2407:14, 2407:22 board [1] - 2307:5 [1] 2327:21, 2336:21, band [2] - 2324:4, 2372:8 beefs - 2401:16 Board [2] - 2357:9, 2379:10 2363:24, 2371:25, banks [1] - 2408:2 beetle [2] - 2365:25, 2366:1 Bob [1] - 2300:3 [7] 2374:11, 2377:17, BAPTISTE [4] - 2302:21, begin - 2303:23, 2305:7, body [5] - 2369:8, 2397:12, 2377:19, 2393:23, 2437:8, 2303:3, 2448:5, 2448:6 2331:3, 2388:15, 2388:18, 2397:13, 2407:18, 2453:11 2439:3, 2445:5, 2452:16 Baptiste [11] - 2303:14, 2389:8, 2436:22 Boise [5] - 2324:5, 2324:6, beyond [4] - 2374:19, 2388:23, 2418:25, beginning [1] - 2438:16 2324:13, 2324:14 2385:13, 2437:8, 2448:21 2430:22, 2434:15, begins [1] - 2326:24 bone [1] - 2320:25 biassed [1] - 2401:11 2434:21, 2436:24, 2448:2, behalf [3] - 2309:21, book [2] - 2310:25, 2315:12 3 Mainland Reporting Services Inc. 604.520.3838 [email protected] Prosperity Gold-Copper Mine Project - Volume 14 - April 1, 2010
border [1] - 2406:15 burden [3] - 2386:6, 2440:9, 2447:16, 2454:5 central [1] - 2313:24 bore [1] - 2363:6 2440:13 Canadian [2] - 2374:23, centuries [1] - 2326:11 born [1] - 2415:6 burial [2] - 2361:24, 2362:4 2378:9 Century [1] - 2329:4 bottom [3] - 2369:25, burn [1] - 2366:6 CANADIAN [3] - 2299:3, century [2] - 2328:23, 2373:25, 2374:2 burned [2] - 2365:21, 2299:8, 2300:6 2371:13 boundary [1] - 2405:11 2365:24 Canadians [2] - 2400:3, ceremonies [3] - 2325:11, boy [1] - 2417:13 burns [2] - 2366:5, 2397:6 2400:22 2325:17, 2326:5 boys [1] - 2424:2 bush [3] - 2324:4, 2328:25, candidate [1] - 2354:9 CEREMONY [4] - 2302:3, Branch [1] - 2363:16 2421:11 cannot [8] - 2319:19, 2328:4, 2302:24, 2303:2, 2453:24 branches [1] - 2421:16 business [19] - 2307:3, 2345:6, 2385:20, 2413:8, ceremony [7] - 2306:7, Brand [1] - 2323:13 2330:13, 2330:23, 2417:4, 2450:6 2326:25, 2327:4, 2389:2, break [4] - 2305:23, 2305:24, 2336:25, 2337:9, 2337:23, canvassed [1] - 2337:1 2430:25, 2444:12, 2453:21 2356:20, 2388:11 2339:4, 2340:1, 2341:6, Canyon [2] - 2378:1, 2378:3 certain [7] - 2320:23, 2349:4, BREAK [1] - 2388:12 2343:5, 2343:17, 2344:19, capacities [1] - 2301:6 2355:23, 2369:24, 2395:1, breakdown [1] - 2349:19 2347:14, 2348:18, 2394:8, capacity [6] - 2301:3, 2395:3, 2423:3 Brian [1] - 2300:14 2396:6, 2398:4, 2398:7, 2301:4, 2301:5, 2301:8, certainly [10] - 2313:2, Bridge [3] - 2373:11, 2442:12 2301:10, 2301:11 2355:16, 2356:2, 2382:6, 2383:22, 2385:4 Business [1] - 2336:1 capital [1] - 2332:7 2385:10, 2385:25, BRIEF [1] - 2388:12 businesses [5] - 2337:10, Captain [1] - 2365:15 2386:14, 2386:17, brief [1] - 2328:18 2337:14, 2343:21, care [3] - 2326:9, 2376:9, 2387:23, 2389:5 briefly [2] - 2389:14, 2411:12 2348:11, 2391:9 2399:8 Certificate [3] - 2442:5, bring [10] - 2330:19, buy [2] - 2355:25, 2367:15 career [1] - 2442:20 2442:8, 2451:1 2330:25, 2331:2, 2336:4, buy-in [1] - 2355:25 careful [1] - 2440:8 CERTIFICATION [1] - 2454:1 2348:24, 2349:21, BY [37] - 2302:4, 2302:5, carefully [1] - 2437:14 certify [1] - 2454:5 2408:23, 2430:1, 2433:15, 2302:6, 2302:7, 2302:8, caretaker [1] - 2447:1 cetera [5] - 2362:19, 2453:14 2302:9, 2302:10, 2302:11, Caretaker [3] - 2362:24, 2366:18, 2399:12 bringing [4] - 2307:19, 2302:12, 2302:14, 2363:22, 2372:12 Chad [1] - 2428:9 2323:6, 2380:7, 2410:4 2302:14, 2302:16, Cariboo [3] - 2374:18, chain [2] - 2406:22, 2407:6 brings [1] - 2397:19 2302:17, 2302:17, 2441:16, 2447:9 Chair [2] - 2300:3, 2436:19 Briony [1] - 2313:16 2302:19, 2302:20, Cariboo-Chilcotin [2] - CHAIRMAN [50] - 2302:4, British [6] - 2299:24, 2302:21, 2302:22, 2374:18, 2441:16 2302:22, 2303:13, 2320:15, 2357:4, 2409:22, 2303:13, 2306:18, Carolyn [1] - 2300:9 2309:25, 2351:19, 2353:9, 2447:14, 2454:4 2351:21, 2353:8, 2356:22, carpentry [1] - 2393:20 2356:8, 2356:15, 2356:19, 2380:25, 2383:6, 2389:10, British/French [1] - 2335:3 carried [1] - 2413:23 2380:2, 2380:12, 2380:20, 2411:7, 2426:15, 2426:18, Brittany [4] - 2365:22, carry [2] - 2405:3, 2443:2 2382:3, 2382:7, 2382:12, 2429:17, 2431:9, 2434:11, 2365:23, 2372:23, 2374:1 carrying [1] - 2355:9 2382:25, 2383:8, 2385:24, 2436:18, 2448:5, 2451:24 broader [2] - 2358:1, 2447:7 cartoons [1] - 2368:24 2386:12, 2387:8, 2387:22, bypass [1] - 2367:23 broke [1] - 2418:19 Cascades [1] - 2367:19 2388:10, 2388:13, 2402:5, cabin [4] - 2322:7, 2392:24, 2402:10, 2402:14, brother [4] - 2352:23, case [6] - 2307:14, 2316:16, 2423:7, 2423:8 2417:10, 2419:4, 2428:9 2324:16, 2327:19, 2402:18, 2402:22, 2403:2, Cable [3] - 2419:19, 2420:4, 2408:22, 2410:3, 2410:15, brothers [1] - 2379:4 2381:14, 2416:10 2421:1 2410:21, 2410:24, 2411:2, brought [2] - 2442:24, Cassimir [2] - 2328:21, California [1] - 2370:4 2453:4 2328:23 2414:7, 2415:1, 2415:9, camera [1] - 2365:15 2423:23, 2425:18, 2426:3, brutal [1] - 2330:25 cast [1] - 2394:23 camp [9] - 2331:14, 2332:20, 2426:8, 2426:13, 2430:11, Buck [1] - 2404:8 CAT [1] - 2364:3 2333:5, 2333:24, 2349:11, 2430:14, 2431:5, 2434:5, bugger" [1] - 2328:24 catch [2] - 2409:13, 2421:4 2352:2, 2413:7, 2418:11, 2434:18, 2447:23, 2451:24 build [6] - 2309:3, 2349:15, cattle [20] - 2411:20, 2427:15 Chairman [6] - 2351:22, 2359:8, 2376:18, 2398:18, 2411:23, 2412:1, 2412:4, campaign [2] - 2330:8, 2381:18, 2387:14, 2428:18 2413:1, 2419:18, 2420:14, 2358:12 2411:10, 2411:22, 2434:12 building [5] - 2363:11, 2422:22, 2423:18, camped [2] - 2420:4, 2421:6 chairman [1] - 2352:24 2393:20, 2394:23, 2428:10 2426:23, 2427:14, Campground [1] - 2383:23 challenge [1] - 2388:4 buildings [1] - 2394:16 2427:17, 2427:23, campground [3] - 2376:10, challenged [1] - 2318:5 built [7] - 2330:10, 2360:9, 2428:11, 2428:19, 2383:23, 2384:5 challenges [2] - 2311:17, 2364:8, 2417:25, 2428:24, 2429:15, 2431:18, campgrounds [1] - 2366:17 2445:20 2444:7, 2444:16 2431:25, 2432:2, 2433:5 camping [1] - 2439:23 Chamber [1] - 2330:8 bulldozed [1] - 2376:11 caught [2] - 2384:8, 2440:1 camps [3] - 2330:2, 2332:24, chance [1] - 2329:7 Bullion [2] - 2393:14, 2409:7 caused [1] - 2322:19 2352:23 change [9] - 2313:7, bullying [1] - 2351:9 causing [1] - 2384:1 Canada [9] - 2312:7, 2317:8, 2343:25, 2365:19, 2369:3, Bulyan [1] - 2427:12 CBC [1] - 2307:1 2333:1, 2366:8, 2369:20, 2369:19, 2371:6, 2371:12, Bulyan's [1] - 2427:9 CCR [1] - 2301:18 2372:18, 2378:13, 2426:22, 2440:13 bunch [1] - 2382:24 CEAA [1] - 2300:6 4 Mainland Reporting Services Inc. 604.520.3838 [email protected] Prosperity Gold-Copper Mine Project - Volume 14 - April 1, 2010
changed [2] - 2324:14, 2381:20, 2387:8 coming [9] - 2303:4, 2376:7, 2378:10, 2438:3 2343:12 Clark [1] - 2300:13 2324:15, 2341:18, company [7] - 2316:19, changes [3] - 2336:3, class [1] - 2359:13 2372:14, 2413:15, 2414:4, 2333:12, 2344:13, 2352:9, 2369:3, 2370:11 classic [1] - 2315:12 2414:5, 2448:7, 2448:9 2352:10, 2352:16, 2379:7 changing [1] - 2324:19 classical [1] - 2315:17 command [1] - 2374:25 compared [3] - 2322:16, characters [1] - 2362:10 clean [4] - 2309:17, 2376:21, commencement [2] - 2322:21, 2363:23 charge [1] - 2318:7 2378:5, 2378:13 2439:5, 2439:11 compassion [1] - 2316:23 charging [1] - 2366:12 cleaning [1] - 2393:2 comment [3] - 2352:4, compatible [2] - 2394:8, chased [1] - 2349:12 clear [8] - 2318:22, 2336:4, 2386:13, 2438:8 2396:3 checked [1] - 2413:1 2337:24, 2384:13, comments [14] - 2306:12, compensated [1] - 2350:9 checking [1] - 2372:9 2428:10, 2450:7, 2452:4, 2330:24, 2333:22, 2338:4, Compensation [4] - 2435:13, Chemicals [2] - 2424:15, 2452:11 2338:5, 2341:12, 2341:13, 2439:14, 2439:17, 2443:18 2424:18 clearcuts [1] - 2371:9 2352:11, 2352:14, 2358:5, compensation [1] - 2446:6 chemicals [1] - 2424:25 clearly [4] - 2401:11, 2364:17, 2367:4, 2437:15, compete [1] - 2412:8 chickens [1] - 2423:1 2437:12, 2442:4, 2453:5 2444:4 compiled [1] - 2313:22 CHIEF [10] - 2302:14, clients [1] - 2342:11 COMMENTS [2] - 2302:21, complained [1] - 2345:3 2302:17, 2302:21, 2303:3, climate [7] - 2313:8, 2448:5 complete [4] - 2305:24, 2426:16, 2426:18, 2431:4, 2313:10, 2365:19, Commerce [1] - 2330:9 2435:11, 2449:1, 2454:10 2431:10, 2448:5, 2448:6 2369:12, 2369:19, 2371:6, commit [2] - 2327:25, completed [4] - 2354:10, Chief [17] - 2301:9, 2301:12, 2371:12 2386:17 2357:23, 2435:3, 2435:16 2303:14, 2306:23, climb [2] - 2406:23, 2406:25 commitments [1] - 2391:4 completely [2] - 2396:5, 2334:20, 2357:17, climbing [1] - 2334:19 committed [2] - 2442:8, 2405:1 2388:23, 2389:12, close [8] - 2347:17, 2349:11, 2443:2 completes [1] - 2385:25 2430:22, 2434:15, 2389:1, 2405:25, 2407:22, committee [2] - 2307:18, complex [2] - 2346:13, 2434:21, 2436:24, 2448:2, 2408:23, 2448:1, 2453:14 2323:7 2378:23 2448:4, 2451:25, 2452:17, CLOSED [2] - 2302:24, Committee [2] - 2323:8, complexes [1] - 2370:3 2453:10 2453:25 2382:21 complicate [1] - 2332:9 Chiefs [2] - 2334:25, 2435:6 closed [2] - 2367:18, common [3] - 2337:11, comprehensive [2] - 2338:5, Chilcotin [7] - 2350:18, 2453:20 2381:2, 2400:18 2341:13 2360:23, 2364:22, 2374:6, closely [2] - 2307:9, 2368:5 communicating [3] - compressed [1] - 2370:9 2374:18, 2412:3, 2441:16 closest [5] - 2404:21, 2316:15, 2316:17, 2317:5 comprise [1] - 2311:15 child [1] - 2417:13 2406:5, 2406:6, 2406:8, communication [1] - compromise [2] - 2310:6, childhood [1] - 2326:19 2406:9 2316:22 2350:2 Children [1] - 2433:14 CLOSING [4] - 2302:21, communities [7] - 2323:15, computer [1] - 2380:13 children [14] - 2309:13, 2302:22, 2448:5, 2451:24 2354:19, 2355:20, 2366:7, conceit [1] - 2318:2 2324:8, 2324:18, 2379:23, closing [14] - 2303:9, 2441:17, 2447:11, 2452:13 concentrate [1] - 2339:20 2413:20, 2415:7, 2415:20, 2306:5, 2306:7, 2388:23, community [54] - 2303:6, concentration [1] - 2330:2 2419:10, 2419:17, 2388:25, 2400:24, 2303:19, 2306:6, 2307:20, concept [1] - 2318:24 2421:21, 2433:7, 2433:10, 2409:12, 2430:23, 2324:25, 2325:3, 2328:15, concepts [1] - 2318:23 2433:11, 2433:15 2430:25, 2448:2, 2448:11, 2329:19, 2330:12, conceptual [1] - 2439:15 2330:20, 2331:16, Chilko [6] - 2340:20, 2453:8, 2453:21 concern [8] - 2330:22, 2350:18, 2361:10, 2373:9, closures [1] - 2344:10 2331:25, 2332:3, 2332:16, 2337:12, 2390:18, 2391:6, 2373:12, 2385:4 co [1] - 2436:14 2336:14, 2342:1, 2342:20, 2407:10, 2434:21, Chinese [1] - 2315:17 co-operated [1] - 2436:14 2342:22, 2348:14, 2351:1, 2441:25, 2450:17 2351:14, 2363:4, 2394:22, Chinook [1] - 2375:21 coast [6] - 2313:24, 2358:14, concerned [15] - 2338:25, choices [1] - 2329:6 2361:3, 2365:13, 2371:23, 2413:22, 2416:23, 2339:7, 2339:8, 2339:9, choose [4] - 2327:22, 2378:21 2436:21, 2436:25, 2339:10, 2339:11, 2329:15, 2333:9, 2352:5 Coast [2] - 2315:23, 2319:3 2439:24, 2441:7, 2442:25, 2339:12, 2339:22, 2340:2, 2443:1, 2443:5, 2443:10, chose [1] - 2337:7 coastal [1] - 2355:4 2340:3, 2340:4, 2344:22, 2444:13, 2444:15, chronic [1] - 2445:22 Coastal [1] - 2313:19 2345:14, 2345:22, 2347:24 2444:18, 2444:19, 2445:9, chronicles [1] - 2321:13 Colette [1] - 2300:7 concerning [5] - 2389:24, 2445:16, 2445:25, 2447:8, churches [1] - 2313:11 collated [1] - 2338:9 2400:17, 2434:22, 2447:20, 2447:25, 2448:7, cinch [1] - 2390:17 colleagues [1] - 2436:22 2443:24, 2444:4 2451:14, 2451:15, 2452:2, Cindy [1] - 2300:8 collected [1] - 2354:7 Concerning [2] - 2441:23, 2452:4, 2452:14, 2452:22, cities [1] - 2424:22 collectively [1] - 2311:15 2444:3 2453:6, 2453:16, 2453:17 citizen [1] - 2452:12 colonial [2] - 2320:12, concerns [24] - 2336:23, COMMUNITY [1] - 2299:14 citizens [1] - 2452:19 2329:25 2346:15, 2389:20, 2390:7, Community [2] - 2299:23, civilizations [1] - 2315:18 Columbia [6] - 2299:24, 2390:24, 2391:12, 2443:7 claim [2] - 2390:5, 2405:12 2320:15, 2357:5, 2409:23, 2391:13, 2391:17, community's [1] - 2445:4 claims [1] - 2390:13 2447:14, 2454:4 2391:22, 2396:15, companies [4] - 2344:9, clarify [3] - 2335:22, comfortable [1] - 2337:18 2407:15, 2407:17, 2408:3, 5 Mainland Reporting Services Inc. 604.520.3838 [email protected] Prosperity Gold-Copper Mine Project - Volume 14 - April 1, 2010
2410:4, 2424:9, 2437:6, 2338:20, 2339:14, 2444:21 corners [1] - 2347:8 2329:22 2438:8, 2443:13, 2443:14, consult [1] - 2350:21 corporate [1] - 2351:9 critical [2] - 2437:24, 2444:4 2443:15, 2444:18, consultants [1] - 2390:12 correct [3] - 2406:16, Cross [3] - 2419:19, 2420:5, 2444:23, 2451:18, 2451:20 consultation [6] - 2434:24, 2438:13, 2454:10 2421:1 conclude [2] - 2424:1, 2436:11, 2437:7, 2438:15, corridor [6] - 2320:17, Crossing [3] - 2364:15, 2444:14 2438:17, 2451:21 2371:25, 2377:16, 2412:12, 2430:6 concludes [4] - 2305:4, consume [2] - 2422:5, 2396:25, 2397:1, 2405:9 crying [1] - 2416:17 2306:8, 2356:9, 2436:16 2422:25 corrupted" [1] - 2333:20 crystallized [1] - 2435:13 concluding [1] - 2306:1 consumption [1] - 2312:23 costs [1] - 2331:14 CSR(A [4] - 2301:18, conclusion [2] - 2359:12, contact [1] - 2325:5 cougar [1] - 2349:1 2301:18, 2454:3, 2454:19 2431:1 contain [1] - 2422:8 cougars [1] - 2358:21 cubic [1] - 2407:25 conditions [5] - 2387:16, contained [2] - 2313:18, Council [2] - 2306:23, Cultural [1] - 2325:11 2429:2, 2436:7, 2442:6, 2440:23 2389:12 cultural [24] - 2313:7, 2445:23 containment [5] - 2344:17, Councillor [1] - 2311:22 2314:2, 2321:12, 2323:1, Condominium [1] - 2335:3 2344:24, 2345:13, 2349:4, Councillors [1] - 2452:18 2323:18, 2325:4, 2328:3, conduct [1] - 2435:10 2406:11 Counsel [1] - 2300:13 2330:6, 2337:4, 2341:21, conducted [4] - 2336:19, contaminants [2] - 2375:12, count [1] - 2411:24 2349:17, 2349:25, 2435:2, 2436:2, 2443:21 2422:23 country [4] - 2320:9, 2335:9, 2354:18, 2358:23, 2360:5, conducting [1] - 2452:10 contaminate [1] - 2338:16 2363:17, 2365:6 2360:8, 2362:5, 2375:15, confidential [1] - 2338:8 contaminated [3] - 2342:5, Country [1] - 2443:3 2375:18, 2394:2, 2429:20, confined [1] - 2330:1 2422:15, 2423:4 couple [4] - 2328:19, 2429:23, 2430:9, 2437:11 conflicts [1] - 2384:1 contaminating [1] - 2425:1 2353:10, 2361:17, 2372:3 culturally [2] - 2307:21, confront [1] - 2311:18 contamination [3] - 2378:6, courage [1] - 2449:13 2355:17 confronted [1] - 2329:13 2414:22, 2421:25 Course [1] - 2313:19 culture [31] - 2308:21, confronts [1] - 2313:14 contemplate [1] - 2447:20 course [19] - 2303:4, 2308:25, 2310:21, 2311:3, confused [1] - 2395:25 contemplates [1] - 2443:20 2306:25, 2313:8, 2324:24, 2315:9, 2316:2, 2316:10, conjunction [1] - 2443:3 context [2] - 2310:22, 2332:21, 2334:23, 2321:4, 2321:21, 2321:25, connected [3] - 2354:6, 2358:15 2356:13, 2359:12, 2323:3, 2323:16, 2324:2, 2413:14 continental [1] - 2368:12 2380:15, 2383:19, 2387:3, 2324:20, 2325:5, 2325:23, connection [6] - 2322:16, continue [8] - 2311:20, 2390:8, 2391:17, 2439:12, 2327:12, 2327:15, 2353:18, 2437:21, 2327:25, 2390:19, 2447:15, 2448:8, 2448:9, 2327:20, 2327:25, 2328:6, 2440:15, 2442:8 2395:11, 2420:1, 2435:4, 2450:4, 2451:7 2329:20, 2329:23, connections [3] - 2314:2, 2441:8, 2449:2 court [2] - 2324:16, 2334:9 2334:12, 2354:24, 2413:10, 2414:19 continued [1] - 2390:23 COURT [1] - 2301:16 2355:24, 2413:12, 2413:19, 2413:22, 2416:9, Connelly [1] - 2300:3 continues [2] - 2325:6, Court [2] - 2358:19, 2441:22 2452:25 consequence [1] - 2399:18 2442:23 Courts [1] - 2329:16 Culture [1] - 2325:8 consequent [1] - 2349:19 continuing [1] - 2449:24 courts [1] - 2449:19 cultures [4] - 2311:4, consequently [1] - 2408:18 continuously [1] - 2421:18 cousin [1] - 2412:17 2311:13, 2321:13, 2327:17 Conservancy [3] - 2358:14, contracting [1] - 2440:19 cover [1] - 2329:1 cumulative [7] - 2367:11, 2372:18, 2378:23 contractors [1] - 2338:22 cracks [1] - 2424:15 2368:1, 2369:1, 2374:21, conservancy [1] - 2377:24 contrary [2] - 2334:4, 2396:4 Craggy [1] - 2379:4 2377:13, 2385:13, 2385:19 conservation [9] - 2357:6, contrast [3] - 2409:1, Craighead [2] - 2357:25 curious [1] - 2399:1 2367:6, 2371:21, 2372:17, 2409:9, 2410:2 crazy [1] - 2403:10 current [8] - 2437:11, 2372:21, 2373:4, 2374:4, contribute [4] - 2368:18, create [4] - 2341:24, 2438:17, 2439:19, 2374:9, 2377:21 2368:21, 2445:4, 2446:4 2347:10, 2350:10, 2426:25 2439:21, 2439:22, Conservation [1] - 2357:24 control [6] - 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2299:2 crew [1] - 2361:13 damage [2] - 2321:9, constraint [1] - 2389:4 copper [1] - 2338:12 crews [2] - 2353:3, 2361:11 2407:21 constraints [1] - 2382:13 copy [2] - 2305:2, 2380:7 crime [1] - 2332:16 dams [1] - 2344:17 construction [4] - 2322:20, corner [1] - 2411:15 crisis [3] - 2316:8, 2318:3, 6 Mainland Reporting Services Inc. 604.520.3838 [email protected] Prosperity Gold-Copper Mine Project - Volume 14 - April 1, 2010
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2387:3, 2387:15, 2402:4, Dunn [1] - 2300:9 educational [1] - 2307:17 empty [1] - 2400:1 2427:2, 2428:15, 2432:7, during [13] - 2326:18, educators [1] - 2323:8 encourage [1] - 2442:10 2438:5, 2441:21, 2445:12 2333:5, 2338:20, 2372:1, effect [5] - 2316:14, 2317:4, end [20] - 2303:9, 2331:1, Douglas [1] - 2417:21 2416:16, 2419:21, 2421:7, 2348:5, 2355:20, 2367:25 2331:11, 2334:16, down [30] - 2313:6, 2325:17, 2426:24, 2428:17, effective [1] - 2323:10 2335:13, 2338:3, 2365:23, 2348:2, 2356:23, 2356:24, 2428:20, 2435:13, effectively [2] - 2319:11, 2376:24, 2378:12, 2382:2, 2360:9, 2360:13, 2361:10, 2435:17, 2447:25 2408:19 2386:16, 2386:20, 2364:2, 2365:15, 2365:17, During [3] - 2339:13, 2427:1, effectiveness [1] - 2367:18 2398:19, 2400:25, 2366:9, 2367:23, 2373:7, 2428:16 effects [8] - 2362:17, 2404:16, 2405:10, 2374:2, 2377:4, 2390:12, dust [1] - 2343:8 2364:20, 2367:12, 2368:1, 2405:19, 2407:14, 2390:13, 2396:2, 2397:5, duty [1] - 2400:13 2377:14, 2379:14, 2381:8, 2425:24, 2430:18 2399:13, 2404:9, 2404:10, dwelling [1] - 2391:12 2453:7 endangered [2] - 2310:23, 2406:17, 2424:16, Dyble [1] - 2300:9 efficient [2] - 2326:5, 2313:9 2424:22, 2428:11, dying [1] - 2425:15 2382:14 endangers [1] - 2346:16 2428:19, 2439:24, 2454:7 e-mail [1] - 2309:24 effort [1] - 2445:14 ended [1] - 2407:16 downplayed [1] - 2397:9 e-mails [3] - 2369:15, efforts [1] - 2453:12 ending [1] - 2311:20 downplaying [1] - 2391:12 2369:16, 2401:9 Eight [1] - 2315:14 endless [2] - 2397:7 downstream [2] - 2392:1, EA [1] - 2451:5 eight [3] - 2362:18, 2397:2, endorsed [2] - 2323:9, 2422:14 Eagle [1] - 2412:12 2424:2 2396:5 Dr [3] - 2313:16, 2354:2, EAO [2] - 2438:9, 2451:1 Eileen [1] - 2421:14 ends [2] - 2327:3, 2359:11 2357:25 early [4] - 2325:1, 2392:4, EIS [2] - 2438:22, 2438:24 endure [2] - 2327:12, draft [1] - 2358:3 2392:12, 2408:14 either [3] - 2397:14, 2428:2, 2437:18 dragging [1] - 2396:12 earn [1] - 2438:6 2434:16 endured [2] - 2330:3, Dragon's [1] - 2307:2 earned [1] - 2351:11 Ekks [4] - 2411:13, 2411:14, 2437:18 drain [1] - 2433:25 ears [1] - 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2407:23 employment [2] - 2393:17, envy [1] - 2322:12 dump [1] - 2375:8 Edmonton [1] - 2427:5 2442:14 epicentre [1] - 2383:25 8 Mainland Reporting Services Inc. 604.520.3838 [email protected] Prosperity Gold-Copper Mine Project - Volume 14 - April 1, 2010
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2409:13 2427:23, 2427:25, 2429:11 finally [1] - 2382:23 established [2] - 2329:12, experiences [1] - 2325:14 family [24] - 2301:7, 2320:19, financial [5] - 2337:24, 2390:15 experiencing [2] - 2330:6, 2337:10, 2376:8, 2378:8, 2337:25, 2440:20, 2441:6, estate [1] - 2397:19 2330:14 2378:15, 2379:1, 2388:20, 2446:11 estimate [1] - 2338:18 expert [1] - 2407:25 2392:2, 2411:3, 2411:18, fine [4] - 2375:6, 2408:25, estimated [4] - 2338:21, explain [3] - 2310:21, 2411:25, 2412:23, 2413:8, 2411:6, 2414:8 2339:18, 2339:21, 2440:25 2357:17, 2414:11 2415:7, 2419:3, 2424:2, fingernails [1] - 2418:19 estimates [1] - 2339:14 explaining [2] - 2356:10, 2426:2, 2427:1, 2427:11, fingers [1] - 2418:18 et [5] - 2362:19, 2366:18, 2428:23 2428:1, 2433:18 finish [1] - 2448:24 2399:12 exploit [1] - 2333:11 FAMILY [2] - 2302:13, finished [2] - 2368:7, European [1] - 2329:12 exploration [2] - 2344:8, 2411:8 2369:12 [3] Europeans [2] - 2312:4, 2364:6 far - 2313:6, 2394:6, fir [1] - 2421:10 2361:5 explorations [1] - 2390:16 2437:8 fire [9] - 2307:24, 2307:25, event [1] - 2446:7 exploratory [1] - 2387:15 fashioned [1] - 2318:18 2364:8, 2364:9, 2365:21, [1] Events [1] - 2327:14 explore [1] - 2446:3 fat - 2310:8 2365:24, 2365:25, events [3] - 2326:15, 2412:8, exploring [1] - 2445:14 fate [1] - 2350:25 2366:10, 2370:13 2439:24 express [3] - 2390:24, father [4] - 2328:20, 2328:22, Fire [1] - 2366:4 eventually [1] - 2424:17 2424:9, 2436:23 2378:17, 2378:25 fires [2] - 2365:19, 2371:1 everywhere [6] - 2327:17, expressed [3] - 2443:16, father's [1] - 2417:10 firmly [1] - 2318:7 2329:15, 2332:25, 2344:4, 2444:18, 2444:24 feasibility [1] - 2390:15 First [26] - 2303:14, 2307:9, 2415:16, 2424:15 expresses [1] - 2323:19 Feasibility [1] - 2440:22 2307:19, 2313:11, evidence [2] - 2376:12, expressions [1] - 2311:8 feasible [2] - 2439:14, 2313:17, 2313:19, 2316:5, 2401:6 extension [1] - 2428:25 2439:17 2323:6, 2329:11, 2335:25, exacerbate [1] - 2334:2 extensions [1] - 2428:23 February [1] - 2336:21 2337:4, 2366:7, 2369:19, exactly [3] - 2405:11, extensive [3] - 2398:19, FEDERAL [2] - 2299:6, 2385:17, 2393:11, 2396:2, 2405:15, 2441:15 2438:15, 2438:17 2300:2 2398:25, 2436:15, 2437:5, examine [1] - 2441:11 extensively [1] - 2427:2 Federal [6] - 2338:9, 2357:2, 2441:4, 2441:17, 2442:9, example [6] - 2356:4, extent [2] - 2306:11, 2334:1 2390:20, 2399:3, 2439:9, 2442:17, 2446:17, 2365:8, 2367:18, 2370:15, extinct [1] - 2334:19 2448:13 2447:10, 2452:20 [2] [20] 2408:15, 2450:19 extirpated [2] - 2372:15, feed - 2373:11, 2408:10 first - 2303:17, 2303:23, examples [3] - 2323:4, 2374:19 feeding [1] - 2365:17 2305:8, 2306:16, 2308:3, 2355:2, 2355:18 extremely [2] - 2345:1, Feeding [1] - 2433:5 2319:25, 2338:24, except [2] - 2307:2, 2402:16 2365:7 fees [1] - 2429:5 2339:13, 2347:9, 2347:11, 2354:20, 2357:13, exception [2] - 2336:3, extremity [1] - 2370:5 feet [3] - 2396:13, 2403:19, 2358:18, 2359:12, 2337:17 eye [1] - 2387:3 2408:16 2369:19, 2380:20, exchange [1] - 2437:8 eyes [2] - 2412:15, 2412:20 felt [2] - 2316:23, 2324:13 2408:16, 2414:23, 2420:5, exclusion [2] - 2391:9, faces [1] - 2316:20 fence [5] - 2393:20, 2428:10, 2430:1 2401:2 fact [12] - 2320:23, 2330:25, 2428:19, 2428:22, 2428:23 Fish [57] - 2308:7, 2309:9, excuse [1] - 2414:6 2353:19, 2355:10, few [28] - 2303:24, 2303:25, 2310:7, 2331:24, 2335:25, excused [1] - 2414:24 2356:15, 2366:9, 2369:1, 2306:14, 2313:3, 2318:22, 2338:15, 2346:18, 2347:1, exhibit [5] - 2305:19, 2388:2, 2390:8, 2391:18, 2323:4, 2323:5, 2330:14, 2349:11, 2362:1, 2362:3, 2305:20, 2310:1, 2380:4, 2405:14, 2434:18 2361:11, 2366:20, 2362:6, 2365:1, 2368:21, 2380:14 factor [3] - 2332:19, 2448:12, 2369:21, 2384:6, 2388:23, 2371:18, 2372:25, 2373:5, Exhibit [11] - 2304:3, 2304:8, 2451:8 2389:3, 2393:24, 2398:23, 2375:4, 2376:10, 2377:8, 2304:9, 2304:11, 2304:13, factors [1] - 2384:12 2402:1, 2402:3, 2403:13, 2407:24, 2415:12, 2379:17, 2383:11, 2304:15, 2304:17, fail [2] - 2320:20, 2400:6 2415:21, 2426:23, 2386:21, 2390:14, 2304:19, 2304:21, failed [3] - 2311:5, 2311:6, 2430:23, 2431:1, 2443:8, 2390:22, 2392:3, 2392:6, 2304:23, 2304:24 2350:20 2448:2, 2448:8 2397:1, 2403:23, 2403:24, exhibits [1] - 2303:25 failing [1] - 2417:3 fewer [1] - 2331:17 2403:25, 2404:13, Exhibits [2] - 2304:4, 2304:6 fair [3] - 2329:18, 2337:15, 9 Mainland Reporting Services Inc. 604.520.3838 [email protected] Prosperity Gold-Copper Mine Project - Volume 14 - April 1, 2010
2404:16, 2405:8, 2406:10, 2368:9 2336:7, 2336:13, 2400:20, given [14] - 2322:10, 2406:17, 2409:3, 2411:19, footprint [4] - 2367:9, 2436:25 2335:20, 2340:18, 2351:3, 2412:5, 2413:7, 2419:20, 2383:16, 2403:12, 2404:15 frighten [1] - 2346:25 2354:14, 2354:22, 2420:14, 2428:21, forbearers [1] - 2440:6 front [2] - 2363:17, 2425:20 2381:22, 2401:5, 2404:20, 2432:20, 2433:8, 2435:12, force [1] - 2314:10 full [4] - 2355:23, 2355:25, 2444:17, 2448:17, 2439:13, 2439:16, forced [1] - 2395:24 2425:19 2449:18, 2449:21, 2450:1 2439:23, 2440:1, 2440:3, forest [1] - 2365:21 fuller [1] - 2439:7 Gizikoff [1] - 2300:15 2443:18, 2443:20 Forest [1] - 2374:7 fully [1] - 2436:14 glacier [1] - 2418:13 fish [13] - 2322:12, 2322:20, forests [1] - 2322:1 functioning [1] - 2323:16 global [5] - 2310:22, 2350:17, 2379:25, 2409:3, Forests [2] - 2428:17, 2429:1 fund [1] - 2353:24 2321:14, 2366:2, 2371:3, 2412:6, 2412:23, 2421:3, forever [7] - 2309:6, 2314:5, fundamental [4] - 2311:10, 2378:10 2432:4, 2432:10, 2432:13, 2321:24, 2344:1, 2344:2, 2314:4, 2321:23, 2329:20 globally [1] - 2378:7 2433:12, 2443:20 2368:24, 2425:11 Fundamental [1] - 2313:20 goats [3] - 2344:6, 2349:12, fish-bearing [1] - 2350:17 forgot [1] - 2405:24 fur [1] - 2350:14 2357:11 fished [2] - 2308:14, 2322:14 form [1] - 2319:18 Furs [1] - 2427:5 Gold [1] - 2385:3 fisher [2] - 2350:15, 2427:4 formal [2] - 2444:12, 2449:19 Future [1] - 2442:23 gold [2] - 2338:12, 2379:1 fisheries [1] - 2349:6 formation [1] - 2442:11 future [8] - 2312:16, 2347:3, GOLD [1] - 2299:2 fishing [9] - 2333:14, formed [1] - 2323:8 2398:3, 2416:8, 2416:10, GOLD-COPPER [1] - 2299:2 2340:17, 2392:6, 2412:17, Former [2] - 2301:9, 2301:12 2425:13, 2437:19, 2446:14 Google [1] - 2304:7 2428:2, 2432:7, 2433:8, FORMER [6] - 2302:14, futures [1] - 2450:9 Government [11] - 2307:9, 2433:10, 2433:12 2302:17, 2426:16, gain [1] - 2309:11 2320:14, 2374:23, Fishing [2] - 2383:22, 2432:4 2426:18, 2431:4, 2431:10 garbage [3] - 2349:7, 2387:17, 2391:3, 2394:17, fit [3] - 2354:24, 2355:12, forming [1] - 2352:12 2366:11, 2384:9 2401:24, 2405:1, 2405:7, 2422:4 forms [1] - 2371:24 gardening [1] - 2327:8 2436:10, 2436:14 five [4] - 2340:14, 2357:11, forth [3] - 2352:21, 2392:11, gardens [1] - 2425:3 government [11] - 2320:6, 2359:9, 2418:6 2454:8 gates [2] - 2367:23 2345:3, 2351:6, 2382:22, [1] fixing - 2425:16 forward [6] - 2383:2, 2387:9, gather [1] - 2421:21 2387:3, 2398:5, 2398:24, Flats [1] - 2419:20 2396:13, 2427:12, 2444:2, gathered [3] - 2308:15, 2400:1, 2401:24, 2438:4 flawed [1] - 2391:8 2448:4 2381:13, 2418:15 government's [1] - 2312:6 flaws [1] - 2321:18 fought [1] - 2334:5 Gathering [1] - 2413:11 governments [5] - 2312:9, flesh [1] - 2320:25 Foundation [5] - 2357:7, Gatherings [2] - 2421:20, 2344:12, 2442:10, fleshed [1] - 2398:22 2358:6, 2375:3, 2375:16, 2430:5 2449:22, 2449:24 flew [1] - 2349:11 2379:10 Gene [1] - 2304:8 graduate [1] - 2354:8 flood [1] - 2406:18 four [15] - 2307:6, 2331:14, General [1] - 2320:15 Grand [2] - 2378:1, 2378:3 flooding [1] - 2407:17 2333:6, 2361:10, 2364:2, GENERAL [2] - 2302:20, grandchild [2] - 2414:5, flowing [4] - 2403:24, 2368:20, 2437:9, 2438:7, 2436:18 2414:23 2405:22, 2407:16, 2441:7 2442:1, 2444:25, 2448:20, generally [3] - 2341:16, grandchildren [2] - 2309:14, fluctuate [1] - 2378:11 2448:21, 2448:23, 2451:11 2343:10, 2416:8 2433:7 Focus [1] - 2313:17 fourth [2] - 2303:4, 2303:5 generate [2] - 2360:16, granddaughter [1] - 2370:23 focus [4] - 2360:3, 2367:8, Fourth [1] - 2340:14 2394:1 grandfather [3] - 2320:11, 2383:15, 2385:21 fragile [1] - 2346:22 generation [1] - 2439:25 2328:23, 2329:1 focuses [1] - 2318:25 fragmentation [1] - 2368:22 generations [7] - 2311:19, grandmother [7] - 2411:12, follow [2] - 2312:2, 2403:23 fragmented [1] - 2371:6 2312:17, 2326:14, 2411:13, 2411:16, followed [2] - 2310:14, Framework [1] - 2305:2 2413:15, 2413:18, 2411:22, 2412:21, 2312:3 Francis [1] - 2428:8 2413:23, 2413:24 2414:16, 2428:5 following [8] - 2306:1, Fraser [6] - 2320:17, generator [1] - 2366:7 grandmother's [1] - 2320:8 2306:6, 2307:23, 2310:16, 2340:19, 2340:21, 2346:3, gentle [1] - 2323:22 granted [1] - 2428:25 2349:16, 2434:24, 2442:2, 2350:18, 2424:21 Gentlemen [2] - 2303:15, grass [3] - 2397:8, 2408:13, 2444:20 free [3] - 2332:20, 2352:3, 2388:14 2420:10 follows [1] - 2335:22 2366:22 gentling [1] - 2361:14 grassland [1] - 2370:3 fond [1] - 2440:4 free-ranging [1] - 2366:22 genuinely [1] - 2394:12 grasslands [1] - 2370:7 food [12] - 2327:4, 2350:3, fresh [1] - 2312:20 geologists [1] - 2390:11 gratitude [1] - 2436:24 2350:6, 2350:14, 2370:18, Friday [1] - 2453:17 George [1] - 2393:14 graze [2] - 2408:12, 2408:19 2370:20, 2384:9, 2421:9, friend [1] - 2312:10 Georgetown [1] - 2365:15 grazing [11] - 2396:18, 2421:22, 2422:1, 2423:15, Friends [10] - 2306:21, geotechnical [3] - 2435:2, 2396:21, 2396:24, 2397:1, 2440:2 2307:4, 2323:5, 2336:8, 2435:16, 2435:19 2397:18, 2420:2, 2420:11, [1] food/garbage - 2385:11 2349:14, 2353:11, Germany [1] - 2361:13 2422:21, 2426:21, Foods [1] - 2443:3 2353:17, 2354:14, Gilbert [1] - 2424:4 2426:25, 2427:14 [1] Great [1] - 2374:7 foolproof - 2345:14 2356:11, 2358:3 gill [1] - 2432:8 [1] great [11] - 2315:15, Foothills - 2372:14 friends [9] - 2306:24, 2307:7, Gill [1] - 2301:18 2318:14, 2323:1, 2334:8, foothills [2] - 2364:12, 2320:4, 2322:1, 2334:23, girls [1] - 2424:3 10 Mainland Reporting Services Inc. 604.520.3838 [email protected] Prosperity Gold-Copper Mine Project - Volume 14 - April 1, 2010
2355:9, 2381:19, 2383:20, 2307:9, 2307:13, 2307:18, health [11] - 2314:21, helps [1] - 2335:22 2389:18, 2400:22, 2438:2, 2311:22, 2320:3, 2320:23, 2314:22, 2321:8, 2332:10, Henry [4] - 2418:2, 2419:12, 2438:3 2323:17, 2329:8, 2330:12, 2332:14, 2349:19, 2427:21, 2429:9 greater [3] - 2320:24, 2330:15, 2331:18, 2396:15, 2445:16, Henry's [3] - 2364:15, 2368:11, 2372:5 2331:20, 2333:18, 2445:22, 2446:2, 2448:22 2412:12, 2430:6 greed [1] - 2425:13 2336:13, 2349:18, 2350:3, healthy [2] - 2310:8, 2397:7 Herb [1] - 2450:11 Greek [1] - 2315:18 2357:1, 2357:8, 2359:6, hear [10] - 2306:13, 2348:25, hereby [1] - 2454:5 green [2] - 2372:22, 2396:4 2359:14, 2360:9, 2361:12, 2417:1, 2422:19, 2425:22, herein [1] - 2454:8 grew [3] - 2353:23, 2393:4, 2361:14, 2363:8, 2363:16, 2430:19, 2449:12, hereunto [1] - 2454:13 2412:11 2363:22, 2366:12, 2451:19, 2452:11, 2452:12 heritage [3] - 2360:5, 2360:8, grid [1] - 2329:5 2368:18, 2369:18, 2370:1, heard [33] - 2303:8, 2313:2, 2375:18 grizzlies [6] - 2344:5, 2370:17, 2372:3, 2372:12, 2316:23, 2331:8, 2352:22, Hi [2] - 2411:11, 2415:4 2349:1, 2374:19, 2375:22, 2373:21, 2373:25, 2397:20, 2411:21, high [13] - 2361:3, 2361:7, 2383:18, 2385:1 2375:14, 2388:8, 2393:9, 2416:25, 2434:9, 2437:3, 2364:13, 2365:6, 2366:17, Grizzly [4] - 2357:24, 2393:24, 2450:12 2437:12, 2437:17, 2375:13, 2377:25, 2379:5, 2358:12, 2380:15, 2382:20 habitat [13] - 2340:8, 2437:20, 2437:24, 2398:19, 2403:18, 2408:7, grizzly [41] - 2347:21, 2346:13, 2350:10, 2365:3, 2437:25, 2439:22, 2444:3, 2449:7 2350:12, 2358:21, 2366:17, 2370:11, 2445:10, 2445:18, high-end [1] - 2398:19 2360:20, 2360:23, 2373:18, 2375:21, 2377:8, 2447:24, 2448:10, highest [2] - 2372:23, 2373:4 2383:19, 2384:19, 2385:2, 2362:18, 2364:21, 2448:17, 2449:9, 2449:11, highlight [1] - 2369:21 2385:8 2365:11, 2365:14, 2450:4, 2450:7, 2452:8, highway [1] - 2384:13 habitats [1] - 2372:2 2452:15, 2452:16, 2366:17, 2367:10, hill [1] - 2420:14 habituate [1] - 2384:20 2452:17, 2452:19 2368:13, 2370:12, hinder [1] - 2332:10 Haida [2] - 2313:23, 2313:24 hearing [5] - 2380:22, 2370:17, 2370:20, hinged [1] - 2395:14 hail [1] - 2320:8 2380:23, 2381:3, 2416:16, 2371:21, 2371:24, 2372:2, hiring [1] - 2395:11 hair [2] - 2354:7, 2373:9 2439:12 2372:4, 2372:7, 2372:14, historic [2] - 2326:14, [8] HEARING [2] - 2299:6, 2373:6, 2373:10, 2373:12, half - 2306:3, 2318:6, 2393:10 2358:13, 2378:22, 2299:13 2373:16, 2373:18, 2374:6, histories [1] - 2325:13 2377:8, 2377:21, 2377:23, 2430:21, 2434:10, 2452:1, hearings [9] - 2368:24, history [5] - 2320:19, 2452:3 2382:11, 2436:20, 2378:21, 2379:24, 2381:8, 2332:23, 2393:10, half-million-acre [1] - 2443:16, 2447:25, 2452:1, 2382:24, 2383:11, 2398:17, 2434:6 2383:25, 2384:6, 2384:19, 2378:22 2452:9, 2452:10, 2453:15 History [1] - 2315:12 2385:3 Hall [1] - 2299:23 heart [2] - 2311:9, 2318:2 hit [1] - 2330:3 ground [6] - 2398:15, Haller [2] - 2424:5, 2424:6 heartening [1] - 2351:9 hold [5] - 2350:25, 2403:9, 2398:16, 2422:11, [1] heartfelt [2] - 2436:23, Hammond's - 2450:11 2419:23, 2420:2 2424:12, 2424:24 Hance [6] - 2417:18, 2437:15 holdings [1] - 2394:16 grounds [3] - 2348:1, 2417:19, 2417:21, hearts [1] - 2448:25 holes [3] - 2434:23, 2435:5, 2361:24 2417:25, 2418:25, 2428:5 heaven [1] - 2378:18 2435:22 groups [2] - 2357:6, 2376:2 Hanceville [1] - 2328:20 heavy [2] - 2448:24 Hollywood [1] - 2361:9 growing [2] - 2317:10, hand [3] - 2335:21, 2428:15, hectares [2] - 2373:20, home [6] - 2319:23, 2330:18, 2338:2 2439:9 2403:13 2333:7, 2373:13, 2384:6, guarantee [4] - 2332:20, hands [2] - 2351:1, 2381:24 height [1] - 2406:2 2385:5 2352:1, 2352:2, 2367:17 happy [7] - 2333:1, 2382:10, Heiltsuk [1] - 2313:23 homeland [2] - 2308:10, guardians [1] - 2312:12 2382:16, 2386:24, Held [1] - 2299:22 2320:6 guards [1] - 2307:25 2442:23, 2443:12, 2453:20 held [5] - 2315:10, 2399:17, homes [3] - 2342:24, guess [2] - 2397:15, 2432:4 hard [4] - 2308:24, 2380:22, 2400:4, 2416:23, 2437:16 2397:21, 2423:12 guessing [1] - 2376:13 2381:3, 2414:20 heli [2] - 2363:20 homestead [2] - 2392:5, guide [6] - 2334:21, 2337:2, harm [1] - 2400:12 heli-skiing [1] - 2363:20 2392:13 2361:20, 2361:21, harnessed [1] - 2445:8 [1] heli-viewing - 2363:20 honour [1] - 2310:1 2427:10, 2427:20 Harry [2] - 2322:8, 2417:16 helicopter [1] - 2363:19 honourable [1] - 2351:10 guided [2] - 2432:15, harvest [1] - 2366:6 helicopters [1] - 2349:10 honoured [4] - 2316:3, 2432:17 harvested [1] - 2418:12 hell [1] - 2376:17 2320:2, 2449:10, 2451:12 guidelines [2] - 2366:14, harvesting [1] - 2432:4 [5] help - 2345:2, 2396:9, hope [4] - 2303:8, 2306:10, 2366:19 hauling [1] - 2392:6 2405:16, 2410:14, 2427:23 2399:19, 2451:19 guiding [4] - 2359:1, [5] hay - 2411:20, 2420:16, helped [5] - 2392:14, hopeful [1] - 2351:5 2393:21, 2394:11, 2432:25 2426:25, 2428:13, 2428:14 2427:11, 2427:19, 2428:9, hopes [2] - 2446:13, 2448:10 Gunchagh [1] - 2419:8 haying [2] - 2427:24, 2433:3 2428:13 hoping [2] - 2356:3, 2398:22 Gwaii [1] - 2313:24 Haying [1] - 2431:22 helpful [3] - 2382:12, horrified [1] - 2335:12 Gwet'in [46] - 2299:23, head [4] - 2356:6, 2412:1, 2410:15, 2443:4 horse [10] - 2307:16, 2327:7, 2303:10, 2303:18, 2412:3 helping [2] - 2371:11, 2354:11, 2359:6, 2361:14, 2303:19, 2305:2, 2306:23, headwaters [1] - 2338:13 2396:13 2361:19, 2361:21, 11 Mainland Reporting Services Inc. 604.520.3838 [email protected] Prosperity Gold-Copper Mine Project - Volume 14 - April 1, 2010
2366:19, 2366:22, 2367:1 hydro-electric [1] - 2359:3 improvement [1] - 2445:23 Indigenous [3] - 2317:11, Horse [5] - 2307:16, idea [8] - 2307:3, 2313:1, improvements [1] - 2429:7 2327:16, 2328:6 2350:24, 2358:18, 2359:4, 2318:18, 2318:19, 2319:3, improving [1] - 2446:4 indirect [5] - 2367:11, 2362:23 2368:6, 2372:11, 2405:25 IN [3] - 2302:20, 2436:18, 2367:12, 2367:24, horseback [2] - 2320:10, ideas [2] - 2318:19, 2437:8 2454:13 2367:25, 2379:13 2418:9 identified [5] - 2337:5, INAC [1] - 2443:7 indistinguishable [1] - horses [20] - 2354:6, 2361:23, 2373:5, 2435:15, inactive [1] - 2375:12 2321:2 2358:22, 2361:4, 2361:5, 2436:5 inappropriate [1] - 2355:17 individuals [2] - 2326:17, 2361:6, 2361:7, 2361:12, identify [1] - 2366:11 Inc [1] - 2301:17 2336:16 2370:6, 2392:15, 2392:20, identity [1] - 2445:21 include [9] - 2310:1, industrial [7] - 2311:3, 2394:10, 2397:2, 2408:10, ignored [1] - 2405:1 2343:19, 2357:22, 2362:1, 2339:23, 2342:9, 2343:13, 2408:11, 2409:19, illegal [1] - 2363:11 2372:23, 2375:20, 2400:6, 2344:3, 2359:2, 2363:2 2411:20, 2412:1, 2418:3, ills [1] - 2329:23 2438:11, 2443:6 industrialization [1] - 2428:14, 2431:20 ILMB [2] - 2394:15, 2401:9 included [3] - 2428:3, 2379:13 hospitality [3] - 2394:11, images [1] - 2304:7 2429:25, 2430:6 industry [9] - 2316:20, 2437:1, 2453:9 imagination [1] - 2311:9 includes [9] - 2358:21, 2338:1, 2353:1, 2353:2, hosts [1] - 2306:22 imagine [4] - 2316:2, 2363:9, 2363:19, 2364:25, 2378:9, 2394:22, 2396:3, hour [3] - 2306:3, 2377:10, 2328:14, 2382:22, 2384:4 2373:1, 2373:14, 2373:21, 2401:16, 2449:24 2415:11 imbued [1] - 2322:4 2387:17, 2443:19 inevitably [1] - 2328:4 hours [3] - 2333:5, 2380:9, immediate [2] - 2313:12, including [17] - 2350:12, inference [1] - 2333:7 2403:21 2383:5 2358:11, 2362:3, 2362:18, infestation [1] - 2366:1 house [2] - 2417:25, 2426:11 immediately [1] - 2397:5 2365:11, 2366:15, influence [2] - 2332:5, housed [1] - 2398:8 immemorial [1] - 2312:13 2371:23, 2373:10, 2364:21 housekeeping [1] - 2393:21 immense [2] - 2321:16, 2373:18, 2373:23, information [11] - 2383:18, huge [19] - 2309:3, 2342:23, 2350:5 2396:15, 2419:19, 2385:7, 2386:9, 2387:7, 2343:2, 2346:12, 2347:19, impact [19] - 2319:22, 2431:16, 2432:8, 2438:3, 2388:5, 2427:13, 2434:25, 2390:7, 2390:18, 2391:15, 2332:2, 2332:13, 2333:15, 2441:17, 2445:20 2435:7, 2435:20, 2435:25, 2391:23, 2394:21, 2395:7, 2334:11, 2342:24, 2343:3, inclusion [2] - 2391:1, 2436:13 2397:11, 2397:13, 2354:12, 2358:9, 2363:25, 2450:21 infrastructure [2] - 2336:24, 2401:20, 2404:25, 2407:3, 2364:6, 2383:14, 2383:17, income [3] - 2367:14, 2435:18 2407:12 2385:19, 2385:23, 2390:3, 2398:4, 2427:3 ingesting [1] - 2422:22 Huge [1] - 2396:18 2392:19, 2401:17, 2413:21 incompatible [2] - 2396:17, inherent [1] - 2328:5 hugely [1] - 2391:8 Impact [3] - 2357:12, 2404:24 initial [1] - 2390:5 Hughson [2] - 2304:5, 2357:13, 2367:7 incorrect [1] - 2439:1 initiatives [1] - 2353:21 2443:5 impacted [5] - 2343:6, increase [3] - 2370:7, inserting [1] - 2331:14 Hughson's [1] - 2310:17 2374:18, 2377:23, 2448:22 2384:15, 2397:21 insight [1] - 2352:13 human [4] - 2311:8, 2311:11, impacts [14] - 2310:13, increased [11] - 2332:14, insights [4] - 2315:10, 2311:16, 2400:18 2331:24, 2336:25, 2339:1, 2339:23, 2341:16, 2322:10, 2327:25, 2328:8 humans [4] - 2317:22, 2337:18, 2343:22, 2342:13, 2342:19, Inspector [1] - 2320:14 2318:16, 2319:1, 2425:3 2357:15, 2367:11, 2369:1, 2344:25, 2370:12, inspired [1] - 2325:6 humble [1] - 2415:23 2374:21, 2377:11, 2370:13, 2384:17, 2434:23 Institute [1] - 2357:25 hundred [2] - 2331:15, 2377:13, 2385:13, increasing [1] - 2384:18 instrumental [3] - 2307:19, 2339:18 2401:20, 2416:13 increasingly [3] - 2316:12, 2323:6, 2358:10 hunt [7] - 2327:1, 2327:3, impartiality [1] - 2351:10 2317:2, 2317:10 insufficient [1] - 2438:24 2333:14, 2352:6, 2412:6, imperil [1] - 2350:16 incredibly [1] - 2377:20 intact [7] - 2323:16, 2358:20, 2413:4, 2421:7 imperilled [1] - 2334:12 indeed [4] - 2310:7, 2321:2, 2362:25, 2371:4, 2371:15, hunted [3] - 2308:14, implementing [1] - 2450:9 2327:16, 2334:1 2397:16, 2409:10 2322:14, 2420:7 importance [2] - 2316:5, independence [1] - 2335:3 intactness [1] - 2359:13 hunter [1] - 2326:24 2452:22 INDEX [1] - 2302:1 integral [1] - 2450:13 hunting [7] - 2352:21, important [14] - 2325:12, Index [1] - 2443:7 Integrate [1] - 2360:5 2382:24, 2392:6, 2394:10, 2326:3, 2326:9, 2331:7, Indian [2] - 2330:2, 2412:23 Integrated [1] - 2363:16 2427:14, 2427:24, 2428:2 2335:23, 2370:17, indicate [3] - 2305:9, integrated [1] - 2318:16 Hunting [1] - 2431:18 2370:20, 2373:19, 2396:23, 2443:12 intellectually [1] - 2318:10 hurt [4] - 2321:3, 2335:6, 2377:20, 2403:5, 2413:13, indicated [6] - 2351:25, intend [1] - 2450:3 2348:8, 2366:18 2446:5, 2446:21, 2447:13 2385:10, 2390:13, intended [3] - 2357:16, hurting [1] - 2397:16 imposed [1] - 2442:7 2403:11, 2434:13, 2434:19 2375:18, 2440:3 husband [4] - 2418:2, impossible [1] - 2408:6 indication [1] - 2383:10 intent [2] - 2393:3, 2396:10 2419:12, 2420:7, 2420:21 impressional [1] - 2333:18 indications [1] - 2334:3 intentions [2] - 2333:8, Huten [1] - 2323:8 improve [2] - 2325:15, indicator [2] - 2362:18, 2450:24 Hydro [1] - 2329:5 2443:14 2365:10 interconnected [1] - 2314:8 hydro [1] - 2359:3 improved [1] - 2443:25 indicators [1] - 2314:16 interest [8] - 2313:12, 12 Mainland Reporting Services Inc. 604.520.3838 [email protected] Prosperity Gold-Copper Mine Project - 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2387:5, 2388:6, 2390:10, Ivan [4] - 2418:6, 2418:7, 2335:8 2377:8, 2377:18, 2379:17, 2390:13, 2404:3, 2442:25, 2418:8, 2424:4 kept [3] - 2333:4, 2338:7, 2382:2, 2383:11, 2386:21, 2447:17 Jamadis [6] - 2417:10, 2364:14 2389:16, 2389:19, interested [2] - 2336:16, 2417:15, 2418:4, 2418:10, key [6] - 2357:20, 2359:7, 2389:20, 2389:21, 2437:10 2418:14, 2419:5 2359:13, 2361:25, 2390:14, 2390:22, INTERESTED [1] - 2301:1 Jamault [1] - 2300:10 2371:13, 2379:18 2391:19, 2392:3, 2392:7, interesting [2] - 2363:21, JAMES [3] - 2302:12, Khutzeymateen [1] - 2392:10, 2393:10, 2397:5, 2405:6 2411:7, 2414:9 2358:12 2402:15, 2403:22, interestingly [1] - 2372:25 James [3] - 2301:6, 2411:11, kidnapped [1] - 2319:11 2403:23, 2403:24, interests [5] - 2318:9, 2420:1 kill [4] - 2341:23, 2348:18, 2403:25, 2404:12, 2336:1, 2437:6, 2447:7, Jaron [1] - 2300:9 2366:1, 2423:21 2404:13, 2404:14, 2447:10 Jeni [1] - 2323:8 killed [1] - 2344:7 2404:15, 2404:16, international [1] - 2409:21 Jesse [1] - 2401:3 kilometre [3] - 2375:20, 2405:18, 2405:20, 2406:2, International [1] - 2313:4 Jessica [1] - 2322:9 2376:23, 2377:7 2406:10, 2406:13, interpretation [2] - 2301:9, Jididzay [3] - 2308:13, kilometres [8] - 2375:19, 2406:15, 2406:17, 2407:5, 2301:12 2420:9, 2420:13 2391:13, 2391:14, 2407:11, 2409:3, 2411:19, 2412:6, 2412:12, 2413:7, INTERPRETED [3] - Jim [1] - 2305:15 2391:16, 2391:22, 2414:12, 2419:20, 2420:9, 2302:14, 2426:15, 2426:18 Jimmy [8] - 2393:14, 2409:7, 2391:23, 2404:22, 2412:13 2420:15, 2427:6, 2428:11, interview [1] - 2305:21 2411:18, 2419:1, 2419:4, Kimmel [1] - 2305:17 2428:20, 2428:21, interviewed [4] - 2337:6, 2419:5, 2419:10, 2427:9 Kimmel-Annshendy [1] - 2431:24, 2432:2, 2432:7, 2337:8, 2359:23 Jimmy's [1] - 2419:5 2305:17 2432:20, 2432:21, 2433:8, interviewing [1] - 2362:16 Joanne [1] - 2305:17 kind [11] - 2347:14, 2351:8, 2439:23, 2440:1, 2440:3, interviews [2] - 2313:22, job [4] - 2316:18, 2347:5, 2353:3, 2353:5, 2353:25, 2443:20, 2444:3 2362:15 2376:18 2355:13, 2358:1, 2370:1, lake [15] - 2309:5, 2309:7, intimate [1] - 2314:14 jobs [7] - 2337:16, 2379:14, 2377:19, 2379:13, 2383:24 2335:10, 2375:10, intricately [1] - 2314:22 2394:22, 2440:18, kindness [1] - 2437:2 2376:13, 2376:23, introduce [3] - 2317:6, 2441:18, 2446:18, 2446:19 kinnikinnick [1] - 2421:12 2414:10, 2414:14, 2415:2, 2415:3 John [3] - 2315:11, 2316:6, Klassen [1] - 2300:4 2424:18, 2433:25, 2436:3, invade [1] - 2329:11 2316:25 KLASSEN [8] - 2353:10, 2444:5, 2444:6, 2444:8, invading [1] - 2321:4 Johnny [2] - 2417:18, 2353:16, 2353:22, 2354:1, 2444:12 inventory [3] - 2361:18, 2417:20 2354:13, 2355:18, 2356:3, lakes [11] - 2314:20, 2372:1, 2372:2 join [1] - 2333:18 2356:7 2337:22, 2351:15, 2416:2, invested [1] - 2399:25 joined [1] - 2426:22 knowing [1] - 2451:3 2419:21, 2424:11, 2425:1, investment [1] - 2395:5 joke [1] - 2414:17 Knowing [1] - 2314:20 2433:23, 2443:19, investments [1] - 2336:2 Jones [1] - 2300:15 Knowledge [2] - 2304:19, 2443:21, 2443:24 investor [1] - 2395:3 Joseph [3] - 2300:7, 2314:3 Lance [1] - 2357:25 investors [1] - 2394:24 2320:15, 2419:6 knowledge [10] - 2314:11, Land [1] - 2363:16 invitation [1] - 2390:23 Joseph.. [1] - 2403:8 2320:23, 2325:25, 2326:3, land [60] - 2308:23, 2309:5, involve [1] - 2338:14 journey [1] - 2311:21 2326:9, 2364:19, 2364:20, 2309:16, 2312:12, involved [2] - 2337:3, Julianne [1] - 2304:12 2412:2, 2422:9, 2450:21 2312:14, 2314:18, 2362:15 jumped [1] - 2431:7 known [1] - 2322:3 2314:23, 2320:11, knows [2] - 2398:5, 2398:24 involving [1] - 2390:21 June [3] - 2435:12, 2435:21, 2320:25, 2321:6, 2321:9, Korea [1] - 2316:8 Irving [5] - 2300:14, 2382:3, 2438:18 2322:11, 2322:13, labour [1] - 2313:11 2386:4, 2387:11, 2447:23 Junior [1] - 2428:3 2322:18, 2327:14, 2330:1, Labrador [1] - 2421:11 IRVING [14] - 2351:22, Justice [1] - 2441:14 2330:17, 2333:16, 2334:6, lack [2] - 2367:17, 2376:8 2352:17, 2353:7, 2381:1, justifiable [1] - 2390:4 2334:11, 2335:1, 2335:5, Ladies [2] - 2303:15, 2381:18, 2382:6, 2382:16, Justin [1] - 2401:3 2335:6, 2335:11, 2335:15, 2388:14 2386:14, 2387:13, 2388:4, Kara [1] - 2401:4 2337:12, 2346:24, Lake [99] - 2308:7, 2309:9, 2410:11, 2434:12, kastom [1] - 2334:25 2350:21, 2354:12, 2434:20, 2436:19 Katherine [2] - 2300:15, 2310:7, 2328:17, 2330:8, 2355:10, 2358:16, 2331:24, 2333:8, 2335:25, island [1] - 2334:19 2398:8 2358:17, 2358:23, 2360:4, 2336:17, 2338:15, Island [1] - 2313:25 keep [8] - 2303:11, 2312:15, 2371:24, 2373:12, 2391:5, 2338:16, 2346:18, 2347:1, isolation [1] - 2324:24 2328:9, 2374:17, 2380:3, 2405:4, 2406:3, 2413:14, 2349:11, 2360:9, 2360:13, issue [5] - 2332:10, 2347:20, 2397:12, 2413:17, 2430:16 2413:19, 2413:25, 2360:19, 2361:10, 2365:20, 2367:10, 2441:23 Keepers [1] - 2314:3 2414:14, 2416:5, 2423:13, 2361:16, 2362:1, 2362:2, issues [7] - 2332:14, keeping [1] - 2364:11 2425:12, 2429:24, 2430:3, 2362:3, 2362:6, 2362:7, 2364:24, 2408:3, 2409:17, keeps [1] - 2312:22 2437:11, 2437:21, 2363:24, 2365:1, 2367:14, 2430:20, 2436:5, 2439:8 Keith [1] - 2300:13 2440:13, 2445:11, 2368:21, 2371:18, itself [7] - 2312:25, 2328:11, Kelly [1] - 2401:3 2446:25, 2449:9, 2449:17, 2372:25, 2373:5, 2374:13, 2347:1, 2347:3, 2368:4, Kelsey [1] - 2401:3 2449:18, 2450:1, 2450:8, 2375:4, 2375:8, 2376:10, 2397:17, 2447:16 Kenneth [2] - 2334:24, 2453:1 13 Mainland Reporting Services Inc. 604.520.3838 [email protected] Prosperity Gold-Copper Mine Project - Volume 14 - April 1, 2010
landowner [1] - 2358:6 Laws [1] - 2326:12 Lights [1] - 2356:23 locating [1] - 2304:21 landowners [2] - 2307:6, laws [1] - 2326:16 lights [3] - 2343:23, 2346:23, location [2] - 2360:13, 2379:9 lead [1] - 2422:11 2356:24 2361:16 lands [6] - 2309:10, 2312:8, leaders [1] - 2450:5 likely [3] - 2319:22, 2343:16, locations [1] - 2420:11 2374:6, 2426:25, 2450:9, leadership [1] - 2325:6 2351:2 Lodge [13] - 2360:10, 2450:14 leak [2] - 2344:17, 2349:5 Lillooet [4] - 2320:9, 2412:7, 2360:19, 2393:10, landscape [4] - 2343:25, leaks [1] - 2425:5 2418:3, 2418:4 2393:13, 2393:19, 2394:7, 2358:23, 2362:5, 2381:7 learn [3] - 2324:9, 2324:10, lily [1] - 2418:13 2403:22, 2404:12, Language [1] - 2323:18 2328:5 Limited [4] - 2300:13, 2404:19, 2406:8, 2406:12, language [45] - 2303:12, learned [2] - 2452:25, 2453:2 2303:10, 2309:2, 2436:23 2432:15 2306:19, 2321:14, learning [5] - 2323:25, limited [4] - 2330:11, 2331:9, lodge [7] - 2337:1, 2346:20, 2323:22, 2323:23, 2324:1, 2324:1, 2433:12, 2437:10, 2396:4, 2410:7 2359:8, 2359:15, 2359:24, 2324:2, 2325:8, 2325:23, 2447:5 limited-term [1] - 2396:4 2360:13, 2392:2 2351:17, 2356:25, lease [3] - 2394:15, 2394:18, limits [2] - 2361:25, 2370:2 lodges [5] - 2343:16, 2426:17, 2427:7, 2427:18, 2394:21 line [12] - 2364:25, 2368:2, 2359:16, 2360:15, 2428:7, 2428:12, 2429:8, least [4] - 2305:20, 2334:3, 2369:2, 2370:8, 2370:15, 2361:21, 2362:16 2429:16, 2431:11, 2361:9, 2400:6 2372:11, 2372:12, log [1] - 2393:20 2431:15, 2431:17, leave [5] - 2346:21, 2369:9, 2374:20, 2384:11, Loggers [1] - 2352:25 2431:19, 2431:21, 2380:5, 2389:5, 2451:7 2385:18, 2403:18, 2428:23 logging [11] - 2345:4, 2431:23, 2432:1, 2432:3, Leave [4] - 2379:22, 2379:23, linear [3] - 2316:12, 2317:2, 2347:18, 2352:23, 2353:1, 2432:5, 2432:9, 2432:11, 2379:24, 2379:25 2319:12 2359:2, 2364:15, 2367:8, 2432:14, 2432:16, leaving [2] - 2397:15, lined [1] - 2389:3 2405:8, 2405:9, 2405:10 2432:19, 2432:22, 2452:21 lines [1] - 2373:25 long-term [6] - 2321:5, 2432:24, 2433:2, 2433:4, Lectures [1] - 2311:2 linked [2] - 2315:22, 2366:3 2338:1, 2344:23, 2368:25, 2433:6, 2433:9, 2433:13, led [1] - 2429:4 list [5] - 2304:1, 2338:5, 2377:20, 2446:23 2433:17, 2433:21, left [13] - 2324:22, 2346:11, 2341:13, 2388:16, 2426:4 look [18] - 2368:25, 2369:1, 2433:24, 2434:2, 2434:4, 2348:19, 2371:19, listed [2] - 2306:13, 2350:12 2369:6, 2369:24, 2371:8, 2451:22 2376:11, 2378:14, 2387:2, listen [2] - 2316:3, 2437:3 2371:23, 2371:24, languages [9] - 2316:21, 2387:12, 2388:17, 2399:2, listened [2] - 2324:7, 2372:20, 2374:10, 2380:4, 2317:7, 2317:9, 2317:12, 2405:23, 2409:7, 2419:1 2437:14 2380:14, 2383:2, 2383:15, 2317:15, 2317:18, legal [1] - 2334:4 Literary [1] - 2316:7 2384:16, 2398:17, 2318:12, 2319:6, 2323:11 length [1] - 2389:18 literature [4] - 2318:4, 2404:11, 2425:8, 2430:14 large [14] - 2332:5, 2332:24, Leonard [1] - 2428:8 2318:14, 2319:16, 2362:17 looked [15] - 2354:16, 2337:19, 2368:9, 2368:10, less [5] - 2351:16, 2363:4, Livain [1] - 2300:8 2358:9, 2359:21, 2360:18, 2368:17, 2368:18, 2400:18, 2412:3, 2440:24 live [11] - 2314:19, 2319:1, 2360:21, 2362:19, 2372:10, 2373:13, letter [3] - 2310:18, 2331:11, 2331:21, 2345:12, 2363:21, 2365:9, 2367:10, 2373:24, 2376:24, 2385:5, 2394:19 2360:11, 2375:5, 2395:24, 2368:9, 2372:10, 2372:17, 2392:19, 2447:13 2372:20, 2376:25, 2399:20 letters [1] - 2428:16 2407:18, 2417:11, Large [1] - 2339:20 looking [15] - 2358:1, letting [1] - 2386:11 2423:16, 2451:14 largely [1] - 2335:23 2359:5, 2360:7, 2368:4, level [3] - 2335:2, 2392:19, Lived [1] - 2432:2 larger [7] - 2326:1, 2326:3, 2368:7, 2370:25, 2371:18, 2416:11 lived [9] - 2321:7, 2322:13, 2353:23, 2365:12, 2372:5, 2392:14, 2400:15, levels [3] - 2330:15, 2381:15, 2412:5, 2412:22, 2419:8, 2374:6, 2403:12 2400:16, 2403:20, 2404:9, 2440:24 2427:11, 2427:25, largest [1] - 2365:20 2404:10, 2405:7, 2407:1 levitated [1] - 2317:23 2431:13, 2440:6 last [27] - 2313:3, 2315:3, looks [1] - 2377:5 Licence [1] - 2442:5 livelihood [2] - 2342:25, 2318:6, 2323:4, 2324:13, Loon [1] - 2406:2 lies [1] - 2318:2 2426:24 2345:25, 2359:9, 2361:11, Loretta [1] - 2426:6 life [25] - 2308:16, 2308:22, lives [6] - 2309:13, 2314:7, 2368:7, 2391:19, 2392:4, lose [4] - 2341:20, 2399:19, 2308:25, 2313:9, 2314:8, 2325:15, 2391:11, 2392:7, 2392:12, 2392:16, 2399:22, 2409:22 2314:10, 2314:17, 2399:25, 2400:6 2396:9, 2396:22, 2402:12, losing [1] - 2407:4 2321:21, 2322:5, 2322:14, living [9] - 2314:4, 2321:17, 2415:10, 2416:18, 2417:9, 2328:11, 2329:8, 2331:1, 2321:24, 2391:14, loss [20] - 2313:7, 2313:14, 2423:8, 2430:21, 2434:9, 2333:12, 2334:12, 2391:23, 2407:18, 2321:3, 2321:12, 2321:13, 2437:9, 2442:1, 2443:8, 2336:11, 2342:25, 2419:11, 2420:18, 2420:22 2322:18, 2322:22, 2323:1, 2444:25 2415:23, 2440:25, 2441:9, loaded [1] - 2411:5 2338:1, 2347:25, 2349:18, Last [1] - 2334:18 2349:23, 2350:5, 2350:10, 2445:6, 2445:7, 2450:2, local [10] - 2323:7, 2330:9, late [2] - 2435:9, 2441:13 2450:19, 2450:24 2333:22, 2335:2, 2348:13, 2383:19, 2396:18, launch [1] - 2310:10 2397:18, 2398:3 lifestyle [2] - 2359:17, 2359:17, 2362:10, 2391:9, Laura [1] - 2322:8 2394:10 2393:11, 2394:21 Loss [1] - 2396:17 law [4] - 2415:2, 2419:16, losses [2] - 2322:19, lifetime [1] - 2345:25 locally [3] - 2310:22, 2345:6, 2420:1, 2441:19 2348:10 light [5] - 2343:8, 2345:23, 2442:12 law's [1] - 2414:24 2396:4, 2410:6, 2441:13 Locals [1] - 2345:11 lost [3] - 2328:8, 2335:23,
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2395:12 managers [1] - 2337:7 2408:9, 2428:13 metres [1] - 2407:25 love [5] - 2337:12, 2416:5, manages [1] - 2375:16 mean [9] - 2310:24, 2311:11, Mexico [1] - 2376:7 2416:6, 2433:11 mandate [1] - 2307:11 2353:14, 2398:13, Michaud [1] - 2300:8 loved [1] - 2417:5 mandatory [1] - 2442:3 2401:18, 2405:13, 2408:5, mid-1980s [1] - 2428:18 lovely [1] - 2410:5 manner [3] - 2332:4, 2431:8, 2449:9 middens [1] - 2370:21 low [6] - 2334:14, 2357:20, 2443:15, 2445:13 meaning [3] - 2414:3, middle [2] - 2406:11, 2359:7, 2361:25, 2379:18, map [6] - 2304:4, 2304:21, 2439:19, 2439:20 2406:18 2421:11 2363:15, 2368:7, 2369:25, means [4] - 2321:8, 2410:13, Midi [1] - 2417:11 low-key [4] - 2357:20, 2374:13 2426:23, 2439:21 might [11] - 2314:19, 2359:7, 2361:25, 2379:18 maps [3] - 2394:19, 2396:22, meanwhile [1] - 2397:25 2354:15, 2354:16, 2356:3, lower [1] - 2405:18 2404:20 measure [2] - 2320:19, 2366:18, 2384:7, 2385:7, Lucille [1] - 2300:10 Marco [1] - 2315:19 2385:20 2440:24, 2443:6, 2444:21, LULUA [8] - 2302:12, Margaret [2] - 2304:11, meat [3] - 2420:18, 2420:20, 2446:11 2302:13, 2411:7, 2411:9, 2305:1 2420:22 migratory [1] - 2373:1 2414:9, 2415:4, 2415:10 Marilyn [3] - 2357:17, mechanized [2] - 2333:16, miles [3] - 2329:2, 2403:15, Lulua [13] - 2301:6, 2301:6, 2434:21, 2436:24 2339:1 2451:13 2304:12, 2305:1, 2305:15, markers [1] - 2446:5 media [4] - 2330:9, 2333:22, millennia [1] - 2315:19 2411:11, 2411:14, market [2] - 2359:8, 2378:11 2389:16, 2391:18 millennium [1] - 2318:6 2412:17, 2412:21, markets [1] - 2378:11 medicine [1] - 2421:10 million [6] - 2358:10, 2414:16, 2415:4, 2419:25, MARTY [2] - 2302:16, medicines [2] - 2308:15, 2358:13, 2373:20, 2420:1 2429:17 2412:24 2378:22, 2407:25, 2441:2 Lulua's [1] - 2304:6 Marty [4] - 2301:10, 2393:1, meet [1] - 2328:21 millions [3] - 2360:16, Lutz [1] - 2315:11 2419:16, 2430:13 meeting [3] - 2328:19, 2378:5, 2378:12 lynx [3] - 2349:2, 2427:4, MARVIN [2] - 2302:17, 2389:1, 2453:20 mind [2] - 2397:12, 2410:16 2431:16 2431:9 meetings [3] - 2416:23, mindful [1] - 2410:11 MABEL [2] - 2302:13, 2411:7 Marvin [8] - 2301:11, 2422:17, 2452:5 minds [1] - 2448:25 Mabel [14] - 2301:7, 2305:21, 2388:21, 2419:7, 2425:22, melt [1] - 2371:10 mine [103] - 2309:3, 2309:15, 2388:20, 2411:2, 2415:5, 2425:25, 2426:9, 2431:4, member [5] - 2311:3, 2316:9, 2321:10, 2322:20, 2415:10, 2415:13, 2431:5 2324:4, 2376:1, 2411:25 2322:24, 2330:9, 2330:19, 2415:19, 2415:25, Maryann [1] - 2424:3 Member [2] - 2300:4, 2300:4 2330:25, 2331:2, 2332:13, 2416:12, 2416:18, 2418:1, Massey [1] - 2311:2 members [11] - 2303:15, 2334:2, 2334:10, 2336:3, 2429:9, 2429:14 massive [1] - 2334:11 2306:24, 2307:6, 2378:8, 2336:7, 2336:14, 2336:23, Mabel's [1] - 2419:4 material [1] - 2322:19 2415:8, 2427:22, 2428:6, 2337:18, 2337:19, Madeleine [1] - 2428:5 materials [2] - 2312:23, 2440:4, 2449:5, 2451:13, 2337:22, 2337:25, Madeleine's [1] - 2417:21 2392:11 2452:20 2338:17, 2340:18, Madeline [1] - 2417:19 matter [6] - 2353:19, Members [3] - 2310:4, 2345:15, 2347:15, 2348:9, magazine [1] - 2313:17 2391:18, 2399:16, 2331:19, 2331:20 2349:15, 2351:4, 2352:22, magnificent [1] - 2378:20 2405:14, 2409:5, 2448:24 memories [2] - 2321:1, 2353:18, 2354:15, mail [1] - 2309:24 matters [6] - 2303:24, 2440:5 2354:16, 2357:18, 2358:5, mails [3] - 2369:15, 2369:16, 2305:5, 2310:22, 2381:6, memory [3] - 2319:24, 2363:10, 2364:17, 2401:9 2436:11, 2447:24 2324:22, 2325:11 2364:23, 2367:5, 2367:12, main [1] - 2412:4 Matters [1] - 2311:1 men [4] - 2331:15, 2331:16, 2367:25, 2368:1, 2368:4, Mainland [1] - 2301:17 maybe" [1] - 2400:7 2333:9 2369:7, 2374:2, 2374:10, maintain [2] - 2325:22, McCrory [15] - 2301:4, mental [5] - 2332:10, 2374:16, 2375:4, 2375:7, 2362:24 2305:14, 2353:20, 2354:2, 2332:14, 2349:20, 2375:19, 2375:22, maintaining [1] - 2371:13 2356:21, 2356:23, 2357:3, 2445:21, 2446:2 2376:18, 2377:12, major [1] - 2377:19 2380:2, 2381:1, 2382:1, mention [1] - 2389:24 2377:14, 2377:16, 2378:4, majority [1] - 2396:25 2385:24, 2386:5, 2387:9, mentioned [5] - 2353:11, 2378:19, 2379:1, 2379:4, 2379:11, 2384:11, 2385:7, makings [1] - 2398:21 2388:1, 2388:10 2398:8, 2415:21, 2442:22, 2385:14, 2385:17, Makuk [1] - 2315:12 MCCRORY [12] - 2302:8, 2453:3 2385:22, 2386:22, man [1] - 2328:23 2356:22, 2380:6, 2380:18, merits [1] - 2335:24 2390:14, 2390:22, 2391:8, manage [2] - 2385:11, 2380:22, 2381:10, mess [2] - 2346:11, 2376:11 2391:10, 2391:15, 2388:17 2382:10, 2382:15, message [4] - 2312:13, 2391:24, 2395:15, managed [2] - 2392:23, 2382:19, 2383:12, 2313:17, 2315:8, 2379:7 2395:20, 2395:24, 2446:12 2386:10, 2388:7 messages [3] - 2313:5, 2396:16, 2397:22, Management [7] - 2357:23, McCrory's [3] - 2381:19, 2313:10, 2443:23 2398:14, 2401:1, 2403:13, 2362:14, 2362:22, 2382:8, 2386:19 messes [1] - 2378:14 2403:20, 2404:10, 2364:22, 2366:3, 2366:4, McKeage [1] - 2300:10 met [2] - 2362:20, 2435:5 2404:11, 2405:15, 2407:2, 2426:20 meadow [1] - 2426:25 metal [1] - 2440:23 2407:4, 2414:1, 2414:3, management [3] - 2314:13, meadows [6] - 2370:16, metals [1] - 2337:16 2414:20, 2416:22, 2366:23, 2385:11 2376:24, 2377:7, 2404:1, method [2] - 2321:17, 2355:5 2422:13, 2425:6, 2440:25, 15 Mainland Reporting Services Inc. 604.520.3838 [email protected] Prosperity Gold-Copper Mine Project - 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2441:9, 2444:16, 2444:22, mixed [1] - 2443:23 mountain [11] - 2349:13, Nabas [26] - 2308:12, 2444:25, 2445:3, 2446:3, model [1] - 2360:10 2357:10, 2364:13, 2333:15, 2351:13, 2392:3, 2446:7, 2446:19, 2450:19, Modern [1] - 2311:1 2366:20, 2403:18, 2404:3, 2392:24, 2403:25, 2450:23, 2450:24 modern [1] - 2318:21 2404:7, 2406:21, 2406:23, 2404:13, 2411:19, Mine [18] - 2310:13, 2319:22, modernity [1] - 2311:6 2412:8, 2418:10 2417:12, 2417:15, 2419:1, 2331:25, 2335:25, modified [1] - 2435:19 mountains [3] - 2320:10, 2419:9, 2419:11, 2419:13, 2338:11, 2340:6, 2340:16, mom [1] - 2414:24 2322:1, 2406:25 2419:19, 2419:21, 2341:5, 2348:19, 2368:21, mom-in-law's [1] - 2414:24 mountainside [1] - 2370:9 2420:15, 2423:8, 2423:14, 2372:25, 2416:10, moment [2] - 2386:1, 2414:7 move [8] - 2308:2, 2335:16, 2427:12, 2431:13, 2416:13, 2416:24, Monday [2] - 2382:20, 2370:8, 2385:4, 2396:13, 2432:17, 2432:20, 2421:23, 2422:6, 2422:17, 2434:22 2397:6, 2430:3, 2444:2 2432:23, 2440:3, 2452:23 2423:19 Money [1] - 2425:13 moved [8] - 2320:21, 2419:2, Nabi [1] - 2433:19 MINE [1] - 2299:2 money [2] - 2406:24, 2419:13, 2420:5, 2420:13, Nakutsi [1] - 2378:21 Mine's [1] - 2396:24 2409:11 2420:15, 2429:22, 2430:1 Nalaine [1] - 2300:4 miner [1] - 2378:16 Mongolia [1] - 2369:5 moving [2] - 2427:23, name [10] - 2306:20, miner's [1] - 2390:2 monitoring [1] - 2446:24 2428:19 2320:12, 2357:3, 2411:11, mineral [6] - 2369:3, 2369:4, Montana [2] - 2358:1, 2376:7 MR [73] - 2302:5, 2302:8, 2415:4, 2430:12, 2444:4, 2374:16, 2401:15, 2441:1, month [5] - 2324:3, 2362:20, 2302:11, 2302:14, 2444:7, 2444:11, 2454:14 2441:4 2368:5, 2381:12, 2382:2 2302:17, 2306:18, named [1] - 2444:7 [1] [3] mineralization - 2378:19 months [4] - 2397:2, 2306:19, 2310:3, 2351:22, names - 2305:9, 2309:20, minerals [1] - 2374:16 2398:23, 2419:22, 2421:6 2352:15, 2352:17, 2338:6 miners [4] - 2333:4, 2343:19, moose [5] - 2350:15, 2413:5, 2352:18, 2353:7, 2353:10, Namgis [1] - 2313:23 2398:5, 2398:24 2420:17, 2420:20, 2422:25 2353:15, 2353:16, naming [1] - 2444:12 2353:19, 2353:22, Mines [11] - 2300:13, morel [1] - 2366:6 Nancy [3] - 2301:18, 2454:3, 2353:23, 2354:1, 2354:5, 2303:10, 2306:25, 2307:2, Morin [1] - 2300:4 2454:19 2309:2, 2388:24, 2389:13, 2354:13, 2354:20, [3] MORIN [2] - 2383:7, 2383:9 narrow - 2316:12, 2317:2, 2395:2, 2401:12, 2436:23, 2355:18, 2355:21, 2356:3, morning [14] - 2303:3, 2319:12 2356:5, 2356:7, 2356:14, 2448:9 2303:14, 2305:7, 2305:23, narrows [2] - 2421:2, 2432:6 2356:18, 2356:22, mines [8] - 2346:10, 2353:3, 2306:9, 2306:12, 2306:15, Nation [2] - 2303:15, 2356:23, 2380:6, 2380:18, 2358:9, 2369:5, 2375:5, 2306:20, 2380:8, 2380:23, 2442:17 2380:22, 2381:1, 2381:10, 2379:3, 2424:22 2381:11, 2388:17, National [3] - 2357:11, 2381:18, 2382:6, 2382:10, minimally [1] - 2331:3 2389:11, 2411:9 2359:18, 2374:23 2382:15, 2382:16, minimize [3] - 2365:3, morning's [1] - 2305:11 Nations [20] - 2307:9, 2382:19, 2383:12, 2366:15, 2401:19 mortality [5] - 2383:25, 2313:12, 2313:18, 2386:10, 2386:14, mining [31] - 2316:19, 2384:2, 2384:12, 2384:13, 2313:20, 2316:5, 2329:11, 2387:13, 2388:4, 2388:7, 2332:24, 2337:16, 2344:8, 2384:22 2335:25, 2337:4, 2366:7, 2348:3, 2353:2, 2354:21, 2389:10, 2389:11, 2402:9, mortgage [2] - 2395:10, 2369:19, 2393:11, 2396:2, 2402:12, 2402:16, 2355:11, 2355:19, 2357:2, 2395:11 2398:25, 2436:15, 2441:4, 2359:2, 2364:2, 2364:5, 2402:21, 2403:1, 2403:4, Most [3] - 2357:16, 2377:2, 2441:17, 2442:9, 2446:17, 2408:25, 2410:11, 2369:3, 2376:7, 2376:8, 2382:6 2447:10, 2452:20 2378:8, 2378:9, 2378:13, 2410:19, 2410:23, 2411:1, Nations' [1] - 2437:5 most [8] - 2337:9, 2337:15, 2411:9, 2414:9, 2426:3, 2378:15, 2379:7, 2387:15, 2358:15, 2363:17, Native [1] - 2396:5 2390:9, 2405:12, 2409:13, 2426:6, 2426:15, 2426:17, 2363:18, 2390:1, 2407:19, native [5] - 2320:8, 2323:11, 2416:11, 2421:24, 2431:9, 2431:11, 2434:12, 2424:7 2324:18, 2330:12, 2332:24 2422:20, 2424:10, 2437:13 2434:20, 2436:19 Mostly [1] - 2360:1 natural [3] - 2397:8, 2404:18, Mining [2] - 2344:9, 2442:22 MS [8] - 2302:16, 2383:7, mostly [1] - 2331:16 2422:9 2383:9, 2415:4, 2415:10, Minister [1] - 2351:2 [1] mother [9] - 2415:2, 2415:5, naturally - 2424:12 Ministry [2] - 2428:17, 2429:17, 2429:18, 2430:13 2415:14, 2415:16, nature [9] - 2314:14, Mt [2] - 2362:2, 2430:2 2429:1 2415:18, 2417:14, 2343:11, 2347:9, 2347:12, mud [2] - 2377:3, 2377:5 minority [1] - 2336:16 2418:21, 2418:22, 2421:14 2348:6, 2357:8, 2375:17, minute [2] - 2396:19, Muddy [1] - 2405:21 mother's [2] - 2415:13, 2377:24, 2413:10 mushroom [1] - 2366:6 2444:15 2418:23 Nature [1] - 2372:18 minutes [3] - 2330:14, must [20] - 2319:1, 2320:22, mother-in-law [1] - 2415:2 near [3] - 2328:20, 2360:13, 2368:15, 2402:1 2321:2, 2321:10, 2327:11, motorized [5] - 2360:1, 2360:19 2330:4, 2337:25, 2345:20, misleading [1] - 2385:22 2363:5, 2363:18, 2363:19, nearby [3] - 2343:16, 2346:3, 2347:2, 2347:7, mistake [1] - 2324:12 2365:2 2348:19, 2354:18 mistrust [2] - 2438:2, 2438:4 2347:9, 2347:11, 2347:16, Mount [1] - 2320:11 nearing [2] - 2425:24, misunderstanding [2] - 2389:5, 2401:16, 2438:5, Mountain [10] - 2304:17, 2430:17 2445:12, 2446:15, 2446:17 2327:21, 2328:3 2304:22, 2403:22, 2404:8, necessarily [3] - 2347:6, mutually [1] - 2442:16 mitigate [2] - 2331:3, 2404:9, 2406:21, 2407:5, 2354:15, 2370:11 Myers [2] - 2417:7, 2428:8 2333:25 2413:4 necessary [2] - 2312:2, myriad [1] - 2311:4 16 Mainland Reporting Services Inc. 604.520.3838 [email protected] Prosperity Gold-Copper Mine Project - Volume 14 - April 1, 2010
2436:11 2369:8, 2371:13, 2377:15, 2396:5 2319:5, 2319:6, 2320:13, need [24] - 2306:3, 2310:19, 2385:17, 2386:16, note [1] - 2386:2 2321:17, 2321:24, 2324:4, 2316:11, 2317:1, 2317:5, 2388:13, 2398:23, nothing [1] - 2322:21 2324:7, 2324:24, 2325:9, 2331:8, 2347:10, 2354:4, 2407:18, 2411:2, 2453:15 notice [3] - 2362:1, 2364:2, 2329:2, 2331:10, 2331:21, 2369:16, 2371:25, nice [1] - 2377:1 2372:22 2348:5, 2348:22, 2351:22, 2373:13, 2387:18, Nice [1] - 2377:8 Notice [2] - 2387:4, 2435:21 2352:18, 2353:20, 2394:25, 2395:3, 2395:16, niece [1] - 2414:24 November [2] - 2334:18, 2354:16, 2355:5, 2356:5, 2400:19, 2401:7, 2413:17, Nielsen [3] - 2301:18, 2441:14 2360:4, 2360:21, 2361:9, 2414:7, 2435:6, 2435:15, 2454:3, 2454:19 nowhere [2] - 2336:12, 2362:10, 2362:11, 2365:8, 2441:18, 2445:23, 2450:7 night [6] - 2343:23, 2346:23, 2358:24 2365:21, 2367:12, needed [1] - 2426:25 2365:17, 2415:10, number [16] - 2322:25, 2372:18, 2373:10, needs [11] - 2312:17, 2416:18, 2417:9 2332:6, 2357:5, 2357:21, 2380:23, 2381:2, 2382:22, 2337:16, 2378:19, Nile [1] - 2315:16 2372:20, 2375:21, 2382:23, 2383:7, 2383:23, 2400:18, 2402:2, 2423:12, Nine [1] - 2324:3 2381:25, 2401:13, 2385:17, 2386:13, 2447:6, 2447:8, 2447:9, nine [3] - 2307:5, 2359:16, 2405:10, 2434:23, 2438:7, 2386:18, 2389:23, 2447:11, 2447:15 2360:14 2441:25, 2442:6, 2443:19, 2389:25, 2390:7, 2395:12, negated [1] - 2348:9 Nixon [11] - 2304:3, 2355:7, 2444:4, 2445:19 2395:14, 2399:13, negative [3] - 2332:3, 2438:9, 2438:12, 2438:21, numbers [1] - 2348:1 2403:10, 2403:11, 2404:6, 2355:20, 2370:12 2438:25, 2439:13, Nuncy [1] - 2377:17 2405:5, 2405:13, 2406:20, negatively [2] - 2339:2, 2439:16, 2439:18, 2440:7, nutrition [1] - 2446:1 2407:10, 2407:20, 2418:6, 2391:10 2441:10 nuts [1] - 2370:21 2418:11, 2426:23, 2428:25, 2430:3, 2439:25, neighbour [5] - 2393:8, NO [1] - 2302:2 nutshell [1] - 2362:12 2449:10, 2450:10 2406:5, 2406:6, 2406:8, no" [1] - 2376:4 o'clock [3] - 2306:5, 2389:5, One [1] - 2354:6 2406:9 noble [1] - 2329:13 2448:19 ones [2] - 2321:19, 2365:12 neighbourhood [1] - 2398:2 nobody [2] - 2408:4, 2412:3 obeyed [1] - 2344:10 ongoing [5] - 2362:13, neighbours [4] - 2394:13, Nobody [1] - 2408:4 objections [1] - 2335:10 2390:25, 2435:14, 2400:21, 2417:20, 2442:17 noise [6] - 2341:14, 2341:24, objective [2] - 2362:22, Nemaiah [10] - 2306:21, 2343:7, 2344:4, 2345:22, 2365:2 2441:23, 2445:18 Onion [10] - 2338:16, 2362:1, 2307:4, 2323:5, 2336:8, 2346:23 objectives [3] - 2362:21, 2362:6, 2397:5, 2419:20, 2349:14, 2353:11, noisy [1] - 2336:16 2446:5, 2446:21 2420:9, 2428:11, 2428:19, 2353:17, 2354:14, nomadic [1] - 2355:7 observations [1] - 2442:3 2431:24, 2432:2 2356:11, 2358:3 non [6] - 2337:7, 2351:2, observe [1] - 2327:12 onset [1] - 2435:3 Nemiah [20] - 2299:24, 2360:1, 2363:5, 2363:19, observed [1] - 2351:8 onus [1] - 2345:8 2306:2, 2307:12, 2310:13, 2382:22 observing [1] - 2367:17 2320:18, 2323:17, 2329:5, open [4] - 2369:4, 2375:7, Non [1] - 2330:12 obtained [1] - 2426:21 2330:6, 2335:9, 2336:20, 2390:16, 2390:25 non-binding [1] - 2351:2 obviously [6] - 2361:5, 2349:22, 2359:22, OPENING [2] - 2302:4, non-government [1] - 2380:5, 2386:3, 2393:5, 2303:13 2372:24, 2373:7, 2376:2, 2382:22 2395:4, 2395:18 2389:13, 2412:15, opening [4] - 2303:17, non-motorized [3] - 2360:1, occupy [1] - 2329:11 2429:11, 2429:22, 2452:20 2306:8, 2364:7, 2434:16 2363:5, 2363:19 occur [1] - 2422:20 nephew [1] - 2428:4 operate [4] - 2338:17, Non-native [1] - 2330:12 occurred [1] - 2388:2 nets [1] - 2421:3 2338:22, 2353:3, 2399:15 non-resident [1] - 2337:7 OF [2] - 2299:8, 2302:1 netting [1] - 2432:8 operated [4] - 2308:5, None [2] - 2331:1, 2337:18 offer [2] - 2327:24, 2398:10 never [20] - 2311:20, 2337:10, 2409:10, 2436:14 none [8] - 2323:15, 2337:21, offering [1] - 2394:6 2320:20, 2334:12, operation [2] - 2395:19, 2339:12, 2340:3, 2340:4, office [2] - 2372:8, 2407:20 2335:12, 2335:14, 2349:3, 2444:22 2340:13, 2340:25, 2341:2 Official [2] - 2454:3, 2454:20 2349:13, 2384:4, 2407:16, operations [5] - 2337:5, norm [1] - 2327:16 offset [1] - 2331:3 2411:22, 2411:24, 2339:6, 2349:25, 2359:15, normally [2] - 2392:21, often [3] - 2378:7, 2438:1, 2412:10, 2414:15, 2394:1 2449:14 2453:10 2414:19, 2425:12, operator [2] - 2352:24, Norman [5] - 2322:2, 2427:8, old [9] - 2318:18, 2326:19, 2428:25, 2449:14, 2390:3 2427:11, 2427:15, 2427:19 2380:10, 2409:6, 2411:17, 2449:18, 2449:21, 2450:1 operators [4] - 2336:20, Norris [1] - 2428:9 2415:5, 2417:22, 2418:6, never-ending [1] - 2311:20 2337:1, 2337:5, 2393:24 North [3] - 2315:24, 2358:24, 2437:20 Nevertheless [1] - 2322:15 Operators [1] - 2310:15 2370:3 old-fashioned [1] - 2318:18 new [9] - 2324:14, 2332:6, operators' [1] - 2336:22 north [5] - 2313:24, 2365:23, oldest [1] - 2419:4 2386:9, 2396:1, 2407:11, opinion [5] - 2364:19, 2367:19, 2372:25, 2404:15 once [7] - 2334:7, 2369:2, 2413:15, 2427:17, 2436:3 2377:12, 2383:10, north-eastern [1] - 2313:24 2384:7, 2412:24, 2413:5, New [1] - 2315:12 2383:16, 2397:24 northeast [1] - 2377:22 2414:10, 2453:22 newborns [1] - 2414:3 opinions [4] - 2336:22, northern [2] - 2370:2, 2370:5 Once [1] - 2324:1 next [15] - 2311:19, 2332:24, 2352:12, 2390:24, 2451:17 not-for-profit [1] - 2307:4 one [67] - 2305:1, 2308:5, 2356:20, 2368:5, 2369:7, opportunities [7] - 2316:18, not-Native-endorsed [1] - 2312:18, 2314:5, 2314:7, 17 Mainland Reporting Services Inc. 604.520.3838 [email protected] Prosperity Gold-Copper Mine Project - Volume 14 - April 1, 2010
2333:11, 2393:18, P.M [2] - 2302:24, 2453:25 2326:23, 2354:23, 2450:5, 2450:6, 2451:10, 2440:19, 2442:13, pace [1] - 2312:22 2355:11, 2381:7, 2441:12, 2451:13, 2451:16, 2452:16 2442:19, 2446:25 Pacific [3] - 2315:23, 2319:2, 2443:4 People [13] - 2303:8, 2320:8, opportunity [10] - 2334:18, 2334:20 PARTIES [1] - 2301:1 2327:21, 2334:5, 2354:25, 2386:11, 2390:25, 2394:7, pack [1] - 2343:22 parties [1] - 2443:17 2355:6, 2357:1, 2416:3, 2394:9, 2394:21, 2399:6, pads [1] - 2376:21 partly [1] - 2324:15 2416:8, 2428:3, 2438:15, 2447:3, 2448:17, 2450:7 PAGE [1] - 2302:2 partners [1] - 2442:16 2443:22, 2448:20 oppose [1] - 2336:14 Pages [1] - 2299:17 partnership [1] - 2394:6 peoples [2] - 2329:14, opposed [10] - 2336:1, paid [1] - 2398:11 party [1] - 2333:17 2355:4 2336:3, 2347:7, 2348:3, PANEL [6] - 2299:6, 2300:2, pass [6] - 2372:8, 2383:18, Peoples [1] - 2315:21 2349:15, 2351:4, 2354:21, 2302:7, 2302:10, 2353:8, 2386:4, 2410:7, 2427:12, per [3] - 2339:16, 2339:19, 2390:2, 2437:13 2383:6 2439:24 2339:22 option [1] - 2400:7 Panel [43] - 2300:3, 2300:4, passed [1] - 2325:17 percent [6] - 2364:4, 2364:5, options [1] - 2399:12 2300:4, 2303:5, 2310:4, passionate [1] - 2437:15 2368:16, 2374:7, 2384:2, oral [2] - 2319:8, 2326:12 2325:10, 2338:9, 2345:18, past [2] - 2393:22, 2449:23 2398:10 orange [1] - 2373:13 2345:20, 2349:14, pasture [1] - 2420:8 perception [1] - 2437:25 order [7] - 2301:1, 2305:12, 2350:25, 2357:2, 2357:17, path [2] - 2424:20, 2428:10 perfectly [2] - 2318:20, 2315:1, 2315:6, 2317:21, 2357:22, 2358:4, 2379:8, Patricia [1] - 2300:10 2318:22 2393:25, 2427:8 2383:4, 2386:18, 2386:24, pause [1] - 2396:19 perhaps [14] - 2321:19, ore [5] - 2339:20, 2369:8, 2387:5, 2388:6, 2389:12, pay [2] - 2429:5, 2441:1 2354:3, 2354:15, 2382:7, 2390:17, 2397:11, 2397:13 2390:21, 2398:18, 2399:4, paying [2] - 2429:5, 2429:12 2383:1, 2383:19, 2391:4, organization [2] - 2429:6, 2410:21, 2411:9, 2430:9, Pemberton [1] - 2320:16 2402:8, 2409:9, 2410:9, 2429:12 2434:22, 2438:23, 2439:9, pencil [1] - 2411:15 2410:16, 2415:2, 2425:25, organizing [1] - 2452:5 2441:10, 2441:21, Penn [1] - 2313:16 2444:16 [5] originally [1] - 2310:17 2441:22, 2442:1, 2443:2, people [109] - 2304:14, period - 2338:20, os [3] - 2360:9, 2360:13, 2444:14, 2444:19, 2305:9, 2306:23, 2309:19, 2338:23, 2402:3, 2426:24, 2374:11 2447:19, 2449:9, 2449:11, 2310:24, 2313:2, 2314:21, 2435:17 others' [1] - 2443:13 2449:12, 2449:14 2317:17, 2317:21, periods [1] - 2370:13 otherwise [2] - 2335:24, Panel's [1] - 2310:6 2319:23, 2320:3, 2321:7, permanent [1] - 2338:21 2422:12 paper [1] - 2411:13 2321:20, 2322:22, permission [1] - 2428:22 ourselves [3] - 2391:17, papers [1] - 2401:5 2323:19, 2323:25, 2326:4, permit [4] - 2366:12, 2400:16, 2400:18 paradise [1] - 2347:2 2329:18, 2329:21, 2426:21, 2435:8, 2436:8 outcomes [1] - 2446:22 paragraph [1] - 2331:10 2329:25, 2330:4, 2330:5, Permit [1] - 2387:4 outcry [1] - 2404:25 paragraphs [1] - 2410:5 2330:13, 2330:17, permits [3] - 2387:16, outfits [1] - 2409:17 paramount [1] - 2334:20 2331:17, 2332:6, 2332:18, 2419:23, 2420:2 outfitters [1] - 2337:2 pardon [1] - 2391:21 2334:24, 2335:1, 2335:11, permitted [2] - 2364:4, outlet [1] - 2360:18 parents [1] - 2426:22 2335:13, 2335:15, 2336:7, 2392:18 outline [1] - 2359:24 Park [10] - 2368:11, 2374:12, 2339:5, 2341:18, 2342:21, person [1] - 2395:14 outlines [1] - 2405:15 2374:23, 2377:17, 2344:16, 2348:14, Personal [7] - 2301:3, outset [1] - 2353:12 2377:18, 2379:6, 2383:22, 2348:24, 2349:18, 2301:4, 2301:5, 2301:6, outside [6] - 2317:7, 2384:23 2350:21, 2351:15, 2355:1, 2301:8, 2301:10, 2301:11 2322:25, 2332:8, 2362:9, park [2] - 2378:4, 2384:4 2355:24, 2357:2, 2357:18, personal [3] - 2320:1, 2429:12, 2451:15 Parker [1] - 2300:8 2358:22, 2358:23, 2325:13, 2353:5 overall [1] - 2377:13 Parks [2] - 2357:11, 2359:19 2360:25, 2362:8, 2364:14, personally [1] - 2393:7 Overall [1] - 2341:3 parks [3] - 2368:20, 2373:22, 2366:18, 2367:1, 2367:13, perspective [7] - 2374:5, overflowed [1] - 2348:20 2383:24 2367:20, 2377:2, 2379:12, 2374:20, 2390:2, 2403:16, overlap [1] - 2409:17 part [17] - 2307:13, 2308:9, 2379:17, 2379:22, 2384:1, 2404:3, 2438:11, 2442:4 Overlap [1] - 2396:17 2309:21, 2321:1, 2322:18, 2389:3, 2389:13, 2389:20, Peter [1] - 2323:13 Overview [1] - 2357:24 2334:16, 2334:21, 2391:9, 2391:12, 2391:14, petition [3] - 2308:4, 2308:8, 2391:23, 2391:25, overview [1] - 2371:21 2360:23, 2364:23, 2309:18 2392:25, 2393:5, 2393:9, overwhelming [1] - 2322:25 2378:22, 2379:1, 2380:16, phases [1] - 2446:16 2393:11, 2393:14, 2394:9, own [12] - 2320:7, 2320:19, 2393:22, 2427:16, phenomenon [1] - 2321:15 2395:1, 2397:13, 2397:20, 2320:24, 2323:21, 2436:13, 2440:2, 2447:14 Phillips [1] - 2312:11 2397:23, 2399:7, 2407:19, 2324:18, 2330:23, participate [2] - 2438:20, philosophy [1] - 2318:15 2408:21, 2412:5, 2415:22, 2334:17, 2338:18, 2394:2, 2443:5 phonetic [3] - 2427:4, 2416:6, 2424:10, 2425:10, 2412:15, 2412:20, 2418:24 participated [2] - 2417:8, 2428:8, 2433:20 2427:19, 2437:17, owned [2] - 2378:25, 2436:4 phonetic) [3] - 2305:18, 2437:18, 2440:2, 2441:25, 2442:12 participation [1] - 2435:14 2378:22, 2432:23 2443:13, 2445:9, 2447:4, owners [2] - 2337:1, 2359:24 particular [2] - 2351:4, photo [1] - 2304:21 2447:8, 2447:12, 2449:4, owns [2] - 2357:7, 2375:16 2387:10 photographed [1] - 2365:14 2449:7, 2449:11, 2449:14, p.m [1] - 2448:18 particularly [7] - 2319:13, photographic [1] - 2387:1 18 Mainland Reporting Services Inc. 604.520.3838 [email protected] Prosperity Gold-Copper Mine Project - Volume 14 - April 1, 2010
photographing [1] - 2367:2 plants [7] - 2314:2, 2314:9, PowerPoint [2] - 2380:8, 2373:23, 2374:11, photographs [2] - 2387:12, 2322:11, 2322:20, 2389:24 2375:17, 2377:17, 2387:23 2361:19, 2422:3, 2425:3 practice [2] - 2308:21, 2386:16, 2437:22 photos [3] - 2304:9, 2411:4, Plants [1] - 2423:5 2437:22 Preserve [10] - 2307:17, 2426:7 play [1] - 2367:16 practices [2] - 2314:1, 2350:23, 2350:24, physical [4] - 2317:25, pleasure [1] - 2430:15 2439:25 2358:18, 2359:3, 2359:4, 2349:20, 2440:15, 2446:1 plummet [1] - 2398:1 practised [1] - 2329:14 2362:23, 2373:22, pick [2] - 2412:23, 2418:14 plus [1] - 2338:22 pray [3] - 2327:6, 2335:14 2375:14, 2376:2 picture [6] - 2310:5, 2333:1, poaching [1] - 2384:22 prayer [4] - 2303:18, 2389:2, preserved [1] - 2309:12 2358:1, 2378:2, 2378:20, poetic [1] - 2318:14 2430:25, 2453:21 preserves [1] - 2368:19 2411:14 point [13] - 2324:7, 2335:23, PRAYER [4] - 2302:3, preserving [1] - 2323:11 pictures [9] - 2386:21, 2351:3, 2364:1, 2385:23, 2302:23, 2303:1, 2453:23 President [1] - 2306:21 2387:9, 2388:1, 2393:12, 2394:4, 2398:8, 2401:25, prays [1] - 2415:16 presidents [1] - 2308:6 2403:7, 2409:1, 2409:7, 2402:5, 2407:1, 2425:24, pre [1] - 2387:15 pressures [1] - 2449:8 2429:19, 2430:15 2430:17, 2444:6 pre-mining [1] - 2387:15 presumptions [1] - 2336:15 piece [3] - 2318:16, 2430:3, pointed [1] - 2327:18 PREAMBLE [1] - 2338:10 pretty [3] - 2377:23, 2397:2, 2450:14 points [2] - 2364:2, 2389:25 preamble [1] - 2308:8 2413:9 pine [1] - 2370:18 poison [1] - 2424:15 precious [1] - 2323:18 prevented [1] - 2328:9 pioneer [1] - 2320:11 poisoned [3] - 2309:6, predict [2] - 2385:20, 2416:8 previously [2] - 2345:2, Pipeline [1] - 2357:12 2309:9, 2309:10 predictable [1] - 2314:15 2416:24 pirated [1] - 2369:16 poisonous [1] - 2424:25 preferable [1] - 2442:4 price [1] - 2397:14 pit [3] - 2375:7, 2404:16, Policies [1] - 2326:13 preliminary [1] - 2436:2 prices [2] - 2401:15, 2440:23 2435:1 Policy [2] - 2440:21, 2441:5 prepare [1] - 2432:12 pride [3] - 2324:1, 2324:15, pits [1] - 2435:23 policy [1] - 2446:9 prepared [2] - 2387:6, 2324:20 place [21] - 2307:25, political [1] - 2345:21 2441:3 primarily [2] - 2346:15, 2308:20, 2314:5, 2317:21, pollution [6] - 2341:14, prerequisite [1] - 2356:1 2357:19 2319:2, 2321:24, 2322:23, 2341:15, 2341:24, 2343:8, presence [2] - 2322:24, printed [1] - 2380:7 2337:19, 2346:20, 2345:23, 2425:15 2405:2 printing [1] - 2380:9 2360:12, 2368:12, Polo [1] - 2315:19 present [7] - 2308:4, priorities [1] - 2445:25 2377:10, 2378:18, 2407:9, Pomateer [1] - 2428:8 2311:24, 2316:18, 2326:6, pristine [5] - 2312:20, 2413:9, 2418:11, 2421:19, pond [3] - 2346:14, 2375:11, 2352:24, 2382:1, 2393:15 2341:19, 2342:10, 2421:20, 2439:23, 2423:10 PRESENTATION [14] - 2345:10, 2375:10 2439:24, 2454:8 ponder [1] - 2447:20 2302:5, 2302:8, 2302:11, privacy [1] - 2362:9 placed [1] - 2332:24 population [5] - 2317:11, 2302:12, 2302:14, privilege [2] - 2320:4, places [5] - 2312:19, 2314:3, 2360:22, 2368:14, 2373:7, 2302:16, 2302:17, 2400:22 2317:17, 2416:2, 2420:6 2384:3 2306:18, 2356:22, problem [2] - 2363:12, placing [1] - 2386:6 portion [2] - 2315:23, 2389:10, 2411:7, 2426:15, 2386:10 plain [1] - 2439:20 2368:18 2429:17, 2431:9 problems [4] - 2326:7, plan [11] - 2359:25, 2362:21, poses [1] - 2341:5 presentation [22] - 2304:13, 2367:5, 2384:9, 2385:11 2366:23, 2368:4, 2373:17, position [2] - 2375:2, 2304:23, 2305:11, Procedures [1] - 2430:19 2394:14, 2394:20, 2396:6, 2400:25 2309:21, 2310:17, proceed [7] - 2356:19, 2425:12, 2443:19, 2444:1 positions [1] - 2358:9 2334:17, 2351:23, 2389:9, 2426:14, 2431:6, Plan [11] - 2357:23, 2362:14, positive [1] - 2393:8 2357:16, 2380:4, 2381:19, 2440:9, 2441:12, 2441:16 2362:22, 2364:23, 2366:3, possibility [1] - 2399:11 2386:19, 2386:20, PROCEEDINGS [6] - 2366:4, 2435:13, 2439:14, possible [8] - 2344:18, 2388:14, 2402:13, 2299:13, 2302:1, 2302:20, 2439:17, 2443:18, 2450:13 2347:4, 2355:22, 2382:4, 2402:14, 2410:25, 2302:24, 2436:18, 2453:25 planet [5] - 2318:8, 2318:11, 2386:8, 2387:25, 2389:7, 2423:25, 2424:1, 2425:19, proceedings [2] - 2454:7, 2321:17, 2328:11, 2332:25 2410:17 2425:21, 2434:22, 2442:24 2454:10 planetary [1] - 2313:8 possibly [1] - 2305:17 Presentation [5] - 2304:3, proceeds [1] - 2446:7 planned [4] - 2349:24, post [2] - 2366:6, 2387:2 2304:6, 2304:8, 2304:18, process [22] - 2351:6, 2406:15, 2435:11, 2452:3 post-burn [1] - 2366:6 2304:20 2391:1, 2399:3, 2401:8, [6] planning - 2337:3, poster [1] - 2304:11 presentations [3] - 2305:25, 2416:14, 2423:22, 2436:9, 2381:5, 2397:20, 2406:19, Potato [2] - 2304:17, 2355:3, 2430:18 2438:10, 2438:14, 2450:8, 2450:14 2304:22 presented [3] - 2310:19, 2438:17, 2438:20, plans [11] - 2349:15, 2350:3, potatoes [2] - 2370:16, 2338:9, 2437:14 2438:21, 2439:4, 2439:9, 2351:15, 2360:12, 2370:22 PRESENTERS [1] - 2301:1 2439:12, 2441:21, 2366:10, 2367:8, 2392:5, potential [3] - 2310:12, presenting [3] - 2353:20, 2448:13, 2448:14, 2392:13, 2400:5, 2405:17, 2332:22, 2407:12 2356:11, 2356:17 2450:25, 2451:5, 2451:9, 2450:11 potentially [1] - 2396:9 Presently [1] - 2421:17 2451:19 plant [3] - 2322:3, 2421:9, potlatch [1] - 2355:6 preserve [10] - 2308:22, Process [3] - 2439:6, 2439:7, 2435:17 2448:14 powerful [1] - 2317:10 2357:8, 2358:17, 2362:23, 19 Mainland Reporting Services Inc. 604.520.3838 [email protected] Prosperity Gold-Copper Mine Project - Volume 14 - April 1, 2010
processes [1] - 2439:3 2421:23, 2422:6, 2422:17, purification [1] - 2326:25 radiate [1] - 2385:13 producing [1] - 2397:8 2423:19, 2444:3, 2444:8 purple [1] - 2372:12 Rafael [1] - 2322:2 product [3] - 2394:2, protect [10] - 2307:11, purpose [2] - 2310:21, rafters [1] - 2337:2 2395:20, 2398:11 2308:6, 2308:24, 2311:25, 2336:22 raid [1] - 2370:21 professes [1] - 2396:1 2312:14, 2329:8, 2334:6, purposes [2] - 2435:2, Rain [1] - 2374:7 Professional [1] - 2357:4 2347:11, 2375:18, 2400:13 2444:9 rainbow [1] - 2350:7 professional [7] - 2336:6, protected [9] - 2330:18, PURSUANT [1] - 2299:7 raise [4] - 2303:24, 2317:14, 2364:19, 2368:3, 2382:17, 2350:22, 2368:17, pushed [1] - 2405:9 2402:16, 2439:18 2383:9, 2383:16, 2398:10 2373:21, 2374:5, 2374:8, put [16] - 2307:25, 2318:7, Raised [2] - 2431:18, professional/technical [1] - 2374:22, 2374:25, 2379:5 2337:22, 2345:9, 2381:17, 2431:20 2381:15 Protected [1] - 2374:13 2382:4, 2386:25, 2387:9, raised [13] - 2388:6, 2396:8, profit [1] - 2307:4 protecting [1] - 2450:8 2397:14, 2408:21, 2411:23, 2411:25, 2415:6, profound [5] - 2320:24, protection [2] - 2377:19, 2410:13, 2411:13, 2430:21, 2431:25, 2327:13, 2330:3, 2331:7, 2379:2 2420:15, 2421:3, 2428:13, 2434:15, 2434:21, 2436:6, 2349:17 Protocol [1] - 2393:23 2428:14 2438:8, 2441:25, 2443:13 program [10] - 2304:9, protocols [1] - 2307:8 Put [1] - 2425:15 raising [2] - 2334:2, 2432:2 2307:16, 2323:10, proud [4] - 2320:2, 2324:20, putting [2] - 2418:22, 2449:3 Ralston [4] - 2316:6, 2316:9, 2323:14, 2357:20, 2437:17, 2451:12 Qiyus [2] - 2307:16, 2350:24 2316:25, 2327:18 2359:15, 2361:19, 2363:8, prove [2] - 2345:9, 2395:17 quad [2] - 2344:22, 2352:7 ranch [1] - 2413:3 2386:25, 2436:4 proved [1] - 2323:10 quads [2] - 2344:4, 2364:11 ranched [1] - 2431:24 Program [2] - 2307:19, proven [4] - 2326:11, qualities [1] - 2339:3 ranchers [1] - 2336:6 2323:7 2439:17, 2449:19, 2449:20 quality [5] - 2337:13, ranching [4] - 2394:10, programs [3] - 2307:17, proves [1] - 2321:18 2341:15, 2346:4, 2366:17, 2426:23, 2427:3, 2431:22 2357:19, 2361:2 provide [10] - 2304:5, 2407:15 Range [1] - 2426:20 progress [1] - 2332:1 2305:2, 2314:25, 2315:5, questioning [2] - 2356:9, range [18] - 2357:14, 2370:5, Project [11] - 2310:23, 2325:19, 2338:4, 2383:10, 2410:7 2404:7, 2408:17, 2413:2, 2381:8, 2401:14, 2435:18, 2387:6, 2412:25, 2434:14 Questionnaire [1] - 2310:15 2419:23, 2420:3, 2420:10, 2437:13, 2440:9, 2440:11, provided [5] - 2304:10, questionnaire [12] - 2330:14, 2423:17, 2427:17, 2440:14, 2440:17, 2304:11, 2304:16, 2330:22, 2335:17, 2427:23, 2428:20, 2441:12, 2453:7 2435:24, 2436:13 2335:20, 2335:22, 2336:4, 2428:21, 2429:1, 2429:5, PROJECT [1] - 2299:2 provides [2] - 2337:16, 2336:19, 2338:3, 2338:7, 2429:7, 2429:14, 2441:2 projects [1] - 2324:4 2439:7 2352:19, 2356:12, 2362:16 ranged [1] - 2419:18 promised [1] - 2321:10 providing [2] - 2442:13, QUESTIONS [8] - 2302:6, ranger [1] - 2307:16 promises [1] - 2400:2 2442:18 2302:7, 2302:9, 2302:10, ranges [3] - 2373:13, 2384:6, promote [1] - 2394:1 Province [11] - 2350:20, 2351:21, 2353:8, 2380:25, 2385:5 promoting [1] - 2442:15 2357:4, 2358:11, 2395:25, 2383:6 ranging [1] - 2366:22 proof [2] - 2369:17, 2398:19 2401:12, 2401:22, 2441:1, questions [21] - 2321:19, rapid [2] - 2325:4, 2371:10 proper [2] - 2366:11, 2395:6 2441:3, 2442:7, 2443:14, 2330:24, 2340:14, rare [1] - 2312:19 properly [1] - 2346:6 2447:15 2351:20, 2353:10, rated [1] - 2374:23 properties [1] - 2375:20 province [2] - 2323:12, 2380:21, 2381:4, 2381:20, rather [3] - 2319:8, 2402:7, property [3] - 2394:15, 2323:15 2381:24, 2382:4, 2383:2, 2418:23 2395:12, 2397:25 Province's [3] - 2396:10, 2383:5, 2385:25, 2386:3, Rather [1] - 2381:24 Proponents [1] - 2350:20 2440:21, 2446:9 2386:15, 2396:14, rational [2] - 2317:20, 2318:1 proposal [1] - 2396:2 Provinces [1] - 2454:4 2401:25, 2402:3, 2402:7, RCR [3] - 2301:18, 2454:3, Proposal [1] - 2358:14 Provincial [8] - 2304:15, 2410:12, 2410:19 2454:19 Proposed [1] - 2453:7 2323:10, 2323:13, quick [2] - 2308:3, 2431:7 re [2] - 2318:20, 2407:12 proposed [15] - 2310:13, 2387:17, 2436:10, quickly [5] - 2308:2, re-emerging [1] - 2318:20 2319:22, 2337:20, 2436:14, 2438:14, 2442:5 2371:20, 2383:4, 2389:7, re-routing [1] - 2407:12 2337:24, 2338:11, 2340:6, provincial [4] - 2347:10, 2409:2 reaching [1] - 2313:5 2373:22, 2438:9, 2439:4 quiet [1] - 2415:23 2340:16, 2341:4, 2367:5, read [3] - 2384:5, 2415:11, 2375:7, 2390:22, 2407:11, proximity [2] - 2355:19, Quilt [4] - 2322:2, 2427:21, 2425:20 2416:22, 2423:10, 2435:4 2440:15 2428:3, 2428:4 ready [3] - 2388:13, 2388:15, prospecting [1] - 2378:18 psychological [1] - 2325:20 quite [11] - 2303:25, 2316:17, 2420:10 [5] prospector [1] - 2378:16 public - 2306:24, 2320:7, 2329:2, 2338:5, real [2] - 2397:19, 2400:20 2352:25, 2355:17, PROSPERITY [1] - 2299:2 2309:23, 2376:10, reality [4] - 2319:20, 2375:21, 2378:7, 2389:3, Prosperity [19] - 2310:13, 2439:12, 2443:16 2395:16, 2395:22, 2438:1 PUBLIC [1] - 2299:6 2430:23 2319:22, 2338:10, 2340:6, realize [1] - 2403:12 [1] quotation [1] - 2352:16 2340:16, 2341:5, 2406:15, pump - 2376:13 really [12] - 2310:8, 2331:8, 2407:11, 2414:12, punished [1] - 2323:24 quote [1] - 2384:3 2359:18, 2359:19, 2416:10, 2416:13, purchase [1] - 2328:17 race [1] - 2412:9 2363:21, 2364:12, 2370:3, 2416:24, 2416:25, purchasing [1] - 2392:9 racist [1] - 2333:22 2401:7, 2408:4, 2408:6, 20 Mainland Reporting Services Inc. 604.520.3838 [email protected] Prosperity Gold-Copper Mine Project - Volume 14 - April 1, 2010
2412:11, 2414:2 reflects [1] - 2323:19 replicates [1] - 2360:10 2306:4, 2311:13, 2337:8, Realtime [2] - 2454:4, refuge [1] - 2364:13 replies [1] - 2330:23 2382:10, 2386:7, 2402:7, 2454:20 refugeeum [1] - 2372:5 report [2] - 2313:18, 2388:8 2402:20, 2402:24, reason [8] - 2325:5, 2333:2, refuse [1] - 2429:4 Reporter [2] - 2454:4, 2410:17, 2430:20, 2434:8, 2351:4, 2381:20, 2395:18, regard [2] - 2333:2, 2453:13 2454:20 2436:20 2424:14, 2429:19, 2439:20 regarding [1] - 2436:6 REPORTER'S [1] - 2454:1 responded [1] - 2337:11 reasons [6] - 2304:2, Registered [1] - 2357:3 REPORTING [1] - 2301:16 responding [2] - 2338:6, 2324:17, 2324:23, registered [1] - 2305:10 Reporting [1] - 2301:17 2447:24 2349:16, 2394:20, 2399:20 Registry [1] - 2380:13 repository [1] - 2379:21 RESPONSE [4] - 2302:19, reborn [3] - 2324:20, REGISTRY [1] - 2299:3 represent [2] - 2316:1, 2302:20, 2434:11, 2436:18 2324:21, 2324:22 regret [1] - 2345:7 2403:17 response [7] - 2382:8, rebuild [2] - 2392:5, 2392:13 regulate [1] - 2366:11 representatives [2] - 2383:3, 2385:15, 2434:13, receipt [1] - 2386:8 Regulatory [1] - 2436:5 2306:25, 2422:7 2434:14, 2434:20, 2436:16 receive [6] - 2435:8, regulatory [1] - 2435:25 reputation [1] - 2378:10 responses [1] - 2338:8 2440:18, 2440:20, rehabilitate [1] - 2307:24 request [4] - 2310:2, 2327:1, Responses [1] - 2310:15 2450:11, 2451:1, 2451:2 rehabilitated [1] - 2387:10 2357:17, 2441:22 responsibilities [1] - received [3] - 2356:13, rehabilitation [1] - 2307:23 requested [1] - 2435:25 2387:19 [3] 2428:21, 2453:9 reinvigorating [1] - 2323:11 require [2] - 2338:19, responsibility - 2314:24, recent [1] - 2373:8 relate [1] - 2314:2 2443:25 2315:4, 2436:10 [2] responsible [1] - 2425:5 recently - 2358:13, related [2] - 2336:24, 2367:4 required [4] - 2328:11, rest [1] - 2317:23 2372:19 Relations [1] - 2315:13 2435:5, 2435:8, 2435:20 [1] [1] reclaim - 2387:18 relationship [11] - 2314:14, requirements [1] - 2367:6 restart - 2401:14 reclamation [3] - 2387:20, 2317:16, 2322:11, requires [2] - 2339:4, restate [1] - 2391:6 2388:2, 2436:7 2327:13, 2327:15, 2335:5, 2439:10 resting [1] - 2327:8 recognize [2] - 2328:5, 2393:8, 2394:13, 2396:1, resale [1] - 2344:21 result [5] - 2324:15, 2330:7, 2452:14 2398:9, 2441:24 research [5] - 2307:15, 2369:15, 2399:18, 2440:13 recognized [3] - 2316:5, relative [3] - 2324:24, 2353:12, 2353:17, resulting [1] - 2366:1 2320:6, 2449:20 2383:10, 2453:7 2353:25, 2357:18 results [3] - 2321:5, 2356:12, recommendation [1] - relatively [1] - 2403:14 researchers [1] - 2372:3 2421:24 2351:1 release [1] - 2424:10 resent [1] - 2336:15 resurgent [1] - 2323:20 [2] recommended - 2366:4, relentless [1] - 2330:7 reserve [1] - 2381:25 retain [3] - 2321:21, 2337:13, 2373:16 relevant [5] - 2363:10, Reserves [1] - 2330:2 2373:17 reconnaissance [1] - 2436:3 2374:4, 2383:13, 2402:2, reserves [1] - 2382:24 retaining [1] - 2359:13 record [15] - 2301:1, 2403:5 reside [1] - 2406:19 retention [1] - 2445:21 2305:21, 2333:2, 2380:17, relieved [1] - 2387:18 resided [1] - 2411:19 return [5] - 2325:2, 2345:11, 2381:21, 2382:9, 2386:25, remain [1] - 2312:17 resident [1] - 2337:7 2368:8, 2368:15, 2418:10 2387:1, 2387:24, 2402:19, remaining [2] - 2373:17, residential [2] - 2323:24, returning [1] - 2392:11 2407:8, 2430:12, 2430:16, 2435:5 2329:24 returns [1] - 2395:6 2437:7, 2452:2 remains [1] - 2442:23 residents [1] - 2332:7 REUTER [13] - 2302:11, recorded [2] - 2305:20, remarks [10] - 2303:9, resilience [1] - 2321:17 2389:10, 2389:11, 2402:9, 2305:21 2306:1, 2306:8, 2351:24, resiliency [1] - 2371:2 2402:12, 2402:16, recover [1] - 2332:5 2388:23, 2388:25, 2389:6, resilient [2] - 2334:7, 2402:21, 2403:1, 2403:4, recovering [1] - 2390:17 2434:16, 2448:1, 2448:11 2437:17 2408:25, 2410:19, recovery [3] - 2329:19, REMARKS [4] - 2302:4, resistance [1] - 2329:6 2410:23, 2411:1 2332:11, 2373:17 2302:22, 2303:13, 2451:24 resource [3] - 2309:17, Reuter [10] - 2301:5, recreation [1] - 2333:11 Remember [1] - 2339:5 2314:12, 2392:9 2305:16, 2388:18, 2389:8, recreational [2] - 2339:1, remember [4] - 2325:1, Resource [3] - 2364:22, 2401:4, 2402:6, 2408:22, 2352:20 2328:19, 2383:21, 2397:10 2440:21, 2441:5 2410:3, 2410:17, 2410:25 [1] red - 2373:24 reminding [1] - 2303:21 resources [6] - 2312:9, reveal [1] - 2330:24 Red [3] - 2404:8, 2407:5, [1] reminds [1] - 2415:14 2312:24, 2335:21, revealed - 2334:24 2413:4 remote [2] - 2328:14, 2421:22, 2423:15, 2446:12 reveals [1] - 2330:22 reduce [1] - 2371:2 2365:15 Respect [1] - 2446:15 revengeful [1] - 2416:4 reduced [1] - 2435:22 remove [1] - 2348:15 respect [8] - 2330:17, revenue [2] - 2347:11, reduction [1] - 2370:15 removed [1] - 2309:24 2351:11, 2374:25, 2446:9 Reece [1] - 2428:17 [3] renewal [1] - 2314:16 2375:14, 2383:14, Revenue - 2304:15, refer [1] - 2396:20 repeat [3] - 2315:3, 2331:9, 2386:19, 2439:16, 2450:18 2440:21, 2441:5 reference [2] - 2354:3, 2332:17 respectful [1] - 2445:13 Revenue-Sharing [2] - 2386:20 2440:21, 2441:5 repertoire [1] - 2311:16 respectively [1] - 2313:25 referring [1] - 2387:21 revenues [1] - 2441:4 replace [1] - 2414:13 respects [1] - 2379:8 [2] [1] reflect - 2320:18, 2320:22 replaced [1] - 2414:15 Respond [1] - 2402:21 reverse - 2332:1 reflected [1] - 2314:13 REVIEW [1] - 2299:6 replicate [1] - 2346:13 respond [13] - 2306:1, 21 Mainland Reporting Services Inc. 604.520.3838 [email protected] Prosperity Gold-Copper Mine Project - Volume 14 - April 1, 2010
review [3] - 2362:17, 2368:4, role [1] - 2447:2 Saturday [1] - 2453:17 self-identity [1] - 2445:21 2381:15 romantic [1] - 2318:18 Saul [4] - 2316:6, 2316:9, self-interested [1] - 2336:16 Review [5] - 2338:9, Ron [1] - 2428:17 2316:25, 2327:18 self-sufficiency [1] - 2350:4 2390:20, 2435:14, 2439:6 Ronnie [17] - 2301:8, save [2] - 2351:13, 2358:12 self-sustaining [1] - 2348:16 reviewed [1] - 2381:16 2388:22, 2393:1, 2419:15, saved [1] - 2347:3 sell [3] - 2343:13, 2343:18, revision [1] - 2443:7 2424:4, 2426:1, 2426:3, saving [1] - 2358:10 2395:23 rich [4] - 2360:7, 2360:8, 2426:9, 2426:12, 2426:19, saw [5] - 2316:16, 2324:14, semi [1] - 2355:7 2370:23, 2429:23 2427:1, 2427:3, 2427:10, 2355:2, 2387:9, 2412:15 semi-nomadic [1] - 2355:7 richness [1] - 2429:20 2427:13, 2427:15, Saysho [1] - 2432:23 send [1] - 2380:18 ride [1] - 2320:10 2427:20, 2428:10 scale [4] - 2321:10, 2355:16, SENIOR [2] - 2302:12, ridge [2] - 2404:13, 2404:18 RONNIE [2] - 2302:14, 2355:19, 2355:22 2411:7 riding [1] - 2327:7 2426:15 scant [1] - 2328:15 Senior [4] - 2301:6, 2411:11, rights [3] - 2400:3, 2400:13, Ronnie's [2] - 2428:9, 2429:4 school [1] - 2329:24 2427:21, 2428:4 2450:2 Ronzio [1] - 2300:7 schools [1] - 2323:24 sense [4] - 2318:23, Rights [6] - 2307:13, 2320:5, roof [1] - 2392:23 science [1] - 2345:17 2322:22, 2325:22, 2399:22 2324:16, 2358:19, room [7] - 2306:14, 2313:15, scientific [3] - 2307:15, sensitive [1] - 2365:7 2373:25, 2374:2 2316:1, 2316:21, 2403:5, 2335:19, 2362:17 sensitivity [1] - 2376:16 rise [2] - 2315:15, 2315:17 2422:18, 2449:8 Scientific [1] - 2382:21 sent [2] - 2331:11, 2354:8 risk [8] - 2317:12, 2329:24, roots [5] - 2320:7, 2418:13, scientist [1] - 2335:17 sentence [1] - 2315:3 2332:18, 2346:12, 2349:5, 2418:16, 2418:18, 2418:23 scientists [3] - 2313:11, Seoul [1] - 2316:7 2375:13, 2375:24, 2379:5 roughly [1] - 2305:24 2371:15, 2371:22 separate [2] - 2318:10, ritual [1] - 2326:22 rounds [1] - 2355:8 scientists' [1] - 2369:15 2384:17 rituals [2] - 2326:15, 2326:16 roundtrips [2] - 2339:19, scope [1] - 2405:4 separates [1] - 2317:20 River [12] - 2308:11, 2339:21 Scott [1] - 2300:15 September [1] - 2316:6 2320:17, 2338:13, route [1] - 2315:22 screen [2] - 2356:16 serious [7] - 2340:9, 2340:19, 2346:3, 2373:11, routing [1] - 2407:12 sea [1] - 2314:18 2340:22, 2341:7, 2363:11, 2373:12, 2385:4, 2396:25, Roy [1] - 2412:17 Sean [2] - 2304:3, 2355:7 2369:13, 2391:8, 2396:14 2421:2, 2424:16, 2424:21 RPR [3] - 2301:18, 2454:3, search [1] - 2326:4 seriously [1] - 2391:10 river [2] - 2337:2, 2432:6 2454:19 seasonal [2] - 2314:15, service [2] - 2329:3, 2329:6 River/Fraser [1] - 2308:11 rubbing [3] - 2372:8, 2377:9 2355:8 services [2] - 2332:7, Rivers [1] - 2350:19 run [4] - 2312:24, 2365:16, seats [1] - 2388:16 2398:11 rivers [2] - 2424:12, 2425:1 2375:25, 2377:4 Sebas [1] - 2360:19 Services [1] - 2301:17 Road [2] - 2339:17, 2339:25 running [3] - 2312:20, second [4] - 2352:4, servicing [1] - 2349:10 road [22] - 2313:6, 2315:20, 2337:3, 2367:21 2391:21, 2391:25, 2405:5 SESSION [1] - 2299:14 2325:1, 2328:15, 2329:22, runs [5] - 2340:21, 2342:8, Secretariat [4] - 2303:16, sessions [2] - 2306:2, 2342:14, 2344:10, 2349:6, 2404:18, 2408:17 2310:7, 2452:6 2381:6 2347:19, 2363:4, 2363:11, rupture [1] - 2327:14 SECTION [1] - 2299:8 set [5] - 2315:21, 2337:25, 2367:18, 2368:2, 2369:2, sack [1] - 2418:23 secure [1] - 2392:1 2381:21, 2386:8, 2454:8 2374:17, 2384:11, sacred [2] - 2335:10, security [5] - 2394:25, Setah [5] - 2304:10, 2312:11, 2384:16, 2384:17, 2385:7, 2379:17 2395:3, 2395:5, 2395:9, 2322:8, 2322:9, 2322:10 2385:18, 2392:17, Sacred [1] - 2304:19 2398:3 Setah-Phillips [1] - 2312:11 2405:10, 2405:11 sacrifice [1] - 2337:21 see [36] - 2309:8, 2309:12, setting [1] - 2361:2 road-closed [1] - 2367:18 safe [3] - 2392:1, 2395:5, 2318:16, 2321:15, 2322:3, settler [1] - 2327:22 road-less [1] - 2363:4 2453:19 2323:21, 2325:6, 2331:2, settlers [5] - 2308:23, roaded [1] - 2363:25 safety [3] - 2344:23, 2333:2, 2343:23, 2345:12, 2330:12, 2330:16, roads [12] - 2362:19, 2347:19, 2396:16 2348:25, 2367:9, 2368:10, 2330:23, 2336:5 2363:22, 2364:3, 2364:4, sagas [1] - 2318:15 2371:1, 2373:3, 2373:4, settlers' [1] - 2309:1 2364:5, 2364:8, 2364:10, sale [2] - 2394:7, 2395:13 2376:5, 2377:18, 2378:2, settles [1] - 2369:14 2364:20, 2384:14, sales [1] - 2395:12 2383:4, 2383:17, 2384:23, seven [2] - 2393:2, 2397:2 2443:11, 2443:15 salmon [16] - 2340:17, 2389:15, 2389:16, several [8] - 2307:8, roadside [1] - 2384:21 2340:21, 2342:7, 2348:1, 2389:22, 2390:1, 2403:3, 2320:13, 2354:5, 2381:16, Robert [1] - 2300:3 2358:22, 2361:1, 2365:18, 2403:23, 2403:25, 2415:7, 2428:16, 2448:16, Rocky [1] - 2322:1 2373:11, 2373:18, 2405:20, 2411:14, 2423:7, 2450:12 Rod [1] - 2300:14 2375:25, 2420:25, 2422:2, 2429:1, 2451:20 Several [1] - 2337:22 rode [1] - 2418:3 2423:1, 2432:8, 2432:10 Seeing [1] - 2412:20 severely [2] - 2350:2, ROGER [6] - 2302:14, Salmon [1] - 2361:1 seek [2] - 2333:10, 2441:20 2374:18 2302:17, 2426:16, samples [1] - 2373:9 seem [1] - 2394:3 sexual [1] - 2332:22 2426:18, 2431:4, 2431:10 samplings [1] - 2354:7 seep [1] - 2424:12 Seymour [2] - 2417:17, Roger [5] - 2301:9, 2301:12, Sanctuary [1] - 2358:13 selection [1] - 2443:21 2417:18 2311:22, 2322:8, 2325:8 sands [1] - 2357:14 self [4] - 2336:16, 2348:16, shake [1] - 2346:24 Roger's [1] - 2327:24 sat [1] - 2451:16 2350:4, 2445:21 shakes [1] - 2424:14 22 Mainland Reporting Services Inc. 604.520.3838 [email protected] Prosperity Gold-Copper Mine Project - Volume 14 - April 1, 2010
shall [1] - 2391:4 simple [2] - 2450:17, 2451:2 2358:2, 2358:8, 2375:3, Spanish [1] - 2361:6 shame [2] - 2327:23, 2400:9 simply [4] - 2309:23, 2310:7, 2378:24, 2379:9 spawning [2] - 2347:25, Shane [1] - 2428:9 2322:17, 2381:4 society" [1] - 2327:22 2375:21 shape [1] - 2373:8 Sincerely [1] - 2401:3 sociocultural [1] - 2310:12 speaker [5] - 2303:23, share [10] - 2314:24, 2315:4, sing [2] - 2417:6 sod [1] - 2418:15 2305:8, 2306:16, 2316:4, 2325:25, 2327:24, single [2] - 2333:9, 2401:23 Solomon [25] - 2301:7, 2356:20 2370:17, 2381:1, 2389:19, sister [2] - 2415:13, 2421:14 2301:8, 2301:10, 2388:20, SPEAKER [3] - 2424:2, 2430:10, 2441:4, 2445:11 sit [3] - 2409:20, 2448:20, 2388:22, 2393:1, 2411:2, 2426:1, 2426:11 shared [4] - 2327:5, 2416:21, 2449:14 2413:3, 2415:5, 2418:2, speakers [4] - 2306:13, 2422:16, 2443:17 site [16] - 2376:22, 2377:3, 2419:12, 2423:24, 2424:4, 2388:16, 2389:6, 2448:16 Shari [5] - 2304:5, 2310:16, 2377:9, 2383:15, 2383:16, 2424:5, 2426:2, 2426:9, Speaking [2] - 2316:8, 2331:6, 2331:22, 2443:5 2385:14, 2385:22, 2426:13, 2426:19, 2407:10 sharing [3] - 2326:2, 2434:6, 2386:22, 2387:1, 2387:2, 2427:21, 2428:1, 2429:9, speaking [4] - 2306:11, 2446:10 2390:6, 2393:2, 2403:20, 2429:14, 2430:13 2316:9, 2323:24, 2426:1 Sharing [3] - 2304:16, 2422:14, 2435:18, 2440:15 SOLOMON [10] - 2302:13, speaks [1] - 2415:14 2440:21, 2441:5 sites [8] - 2352:22, 2361:23, 2302:14, 2302:16, 2411:8, spearheaded [1] - 2378:24 sheep [1] - 2344:6 2362:4, 2387:10, 2387:18, 2426:6, 2426:15, 2426:17, spearheading [1] - 2358:11 shift [2] - 2352:6, 2370:14 2404:5, 2450:16, 2450:20 2429:17, 2429:18, 2430:13 special [3] - 2361:24, shipped [1] - 2427:5 Sitting [1] - 2322:7 solve [1] - 2397:17 2379:12, 2440:15 shocking [1] - 2384:5 sitting [2] - 2403:22, 2418:7 someone [2] - 2449:15, specialist [1] - 2319:12 short [9] - 2303:11, 2305:24, situated [1] - 2423:9 2449:17 species [6] - 2311:18, 2309:11, 2356:20, six [5] - 2331:15, 2393:22, Sometimes [1] - 2333:17 2350:11, 2360:4, 2362:18, 2388:11, 2410:12, 2426:4, 2394:16, 2396:6, 2452:10 sometimes [3] - 2322:16, 2365:10, 2372:20 2448:19, 2451:10 size [2] - 2403:13, 2403:14 2328:24, 2328:25 specific [4] - 2350:6, 2356:4, short-term [1] - 2309:11 sketch [1] - 2411:15 Somewhat [6] - 2339:8, 2438:7, 2443:9 shorten [1] - 2424:8 skiing [1] - 2363:20 2339:11, 2340:3, 2340:10, specifically [1] - 2381:8 shortened [1] - 2310:16 skill [1] - 2454:11 2340:23, 2341:8 speech [1] - 2424:8 shorthand [1] - 2454:8 skip [1] - 2331:6 somewhat [2] - 2310:16, spend [4] - 2334:18, shortly [2] - 2303:23, 2305:7 slept [1] - 2322:15 2392:15 2400:17, 2413:8, 2445:13 show [19] - 2304:4, 2307:1, slide [1] - 2304:4 somewhere [2] - 2375:24, spending [2] - 2378:5, 2310:7, 2363:7, 2368:16, slight [1] - 2409:8 2406:16 2378:12 2373:24, 2373:25, slightly [1] - 2403:19 son [8] - 2378:9, 2417:21, spent [4] - 2324:3, 2334:21, 2377:25, 2388:1, 2404:5, Slocan [2] - 2375:6, 2375:8 2418:5, 2418:17, 2419:15, 2397:4, 2434:6 2409:2, 2409:6, 2409:8, slow [2] - 2343:20, 2380:10 2419:24, 2420:1, 2427:9 spice [1] - 2315:20 [1] 2409:12, 2417:9, 2426:6, slowly [1] - 2425:15 son-in-law - 2420:1 spill [1] - 2376:12 song [1] - 2303:21 2427:20, 2429:20, 2430:2 smack [1] - 2406:18 Spirit [2] - 2358:14, 2378:23 sons [1] - 2419:6 showing [6] - 2330:13, small [10] - 2313:16, spiritual [5] - 2322:6, 2404:1, 2410:5, 2429:21, 2320:19, 2346:20, soon [3] - 2315:11, 2386:4, 2322:22, 2325:20, 2429:24, 2430:9 2355:15, 2376:12, 2390:4, 2397:6 2349:20, 2415:15 shown [3] - 2386:21, 2388:1, 2390:5, 2392:8, 2392:23, sorry [6] - 2304:24, 2395:15, spiritually [1] - 2321:11 2446:15 2403:14 2405:23, 2405:24, 2431:3, spoken [35] - 2303:12, shows [3] - 2387:12, smaller [1] - 2347:23 2431:5 2351:17, 2356:25, 2427:7, [5] 2396:24, 2408:20 Smart [1] - 2357:9 sort - 2359:24, 2366:12, 2427:18, 2428:7, 2428:12, shy [1] - 2415:22 smelled [1] - 2376:22 2369:25, 2374:19, 2385:9 2429:8, 2429:16, 2431:15, [1] side [5] - 2365:21, 2366:25, snow [9] - 2365:7, 2371:10, sought - 2337:15 2431:17, 2431:19, 2367:3, 2372:13, 2385:8 2407:9, 2407:10, 2407:21, soul [2] - 2323:19, 2416:11 2431:21, 2431:23, 2432:1, SIEGFRIED [2] - 2302:11, 2408:7, 2408:16, 2408:18, souls [1] - 2448:25 2432:3, 2432:5, 2432:9, 2389:10 2428:24 sounding [1] - 2323:22 2432:11, 2432:14, Siegfried [2] - 2301:5, snowmobiles [2] - 2333:17, sounds [1] - 2383:1 2432:16, 2432:19, 2305:16 2367:15 source [4] - 2325:19, 2350:6, 2432:22, 2432:24, 2433:2, Sig [1] - 2401:3 snowmobiling [1] - 2365:8 2412:4, 2441:8 2433:4, 2433:6, 2433:9, sight [1] - 2335:23 so-called [1] - 2379:14 sources [3] - 2422:1, 2433:13, 2433:17, sights [1] - 2362:4 soapberries [1] - 2421:13 2422:10, 2423:5 2433:21, 2433:24, 2434:2, sign [1] - 2309:19 soapberry [1] - 2421:15 South [3] - 2316:7, 2334:20, 2434:4, 2451:22 spoken) [3] - 2306:19, signed [1] - 2309:18 social [7] - 2331:4, 2331:13, 2407:5 significance [1] - 2322:4 2331:24, 2332:11, south [6] - 2320:10, 2390:10, 2426:17, 2431:12 significant [6] - 2370:10, 2332:13, 2333:11, 2349:21 2403:24, 2406:22, spot [1] - 2403:18 2374:8, 2440:2, 2441:8, society [7] - 2307:5, 2411:19, 2420:12 spray [1] - 2365:17 2442:6, 2446:18 2314:21, 2326:1, 2326:3, southern [1] - 2406:15 Spring [1] - 2420:25 significantly [1] - 2370:8 2328:4, 2337:16, 2376:1 sovereign [1] - 2329:14 spring [5] - 2324:13, 2397:4, similar [1] - 2330:15 Society [7] - 2357:6, 2357:9, Spagnuolo [1] - 2300:7 2419:22, 2420:8, 2432:8 23 Mainland Reporting Services Inc. 604.520.3838 [email protected] Prosperity Gold-Copper Mine Project - Volume 14 - April 1, 2010
springtime [1] - 2372:9 stood [2] - 2351:9, 2451:17 submitted [4] - 2357:22, survive [6] - 2315:2, 2315:7, Spruce [2] - 2374:13, stop [4] - 2364:9, 2424:13, 2380:16, 2394:14, 2435:22 2321:25, 2327:12, 2377:18 2428:11, 2428:19 submitting [1] - 2429:19 2358:22, 2371:16 spy [2] - 2368:23 stopped [2] - 2399:17, subscribed [1] - 2454:13 sustain [1] - 2328:11 spy-to-spy [1] - 2368:23 2401:22 subsistence [1] - 2314:17 Sustainability [1] - 2313:21 square [1] - 2403:15 stories [6] - 2314:1, 2324:7, substantial [1] - 2440:20 Sustainable [2] - 2364:22, squeezed [1] - 2347:22 2325:18, 2326:15, success [1] - 2324:16 2393:23 squirrel [1] - 2370:21 2411:20, 2437:15 successful [2] - 2327:1, sustainable [9] - 2314:12, SR [2] - 2411:9, 2414:9 story [2] - 2312:2, 2312:5 2327:3 2338:1, 2353:13, 2353:14, stage [3] - 2410:8, 2416:13, straight [1] - 2381:21 successfully [1] - 2318:4 2359:14, 2392:8, 2394:2, 2439:11 strap [1] - 2418:8 succulent [1] - 2310:8 2394:22, 2396:3 stampede [1] - 2412:8 streams [3] - 2424:11, suffer [1] - 2440:12 sustaining [1] - 2348:16 standing [1] - 2336:2 2424:19, 2425:1 sufficiency [2] - 2350:4, sustains [2] - 2321:6, 2334:6 stark [1] - 2330:25 strength [6] - 2314:25, 2439:10 Sutton [1] - 2315:11 starry [1] - 2343:24 2315:5, 2321:16, 2325:21, suggest [3] - 2352:11, Suzie [1] - 2304:10 start [6] - 2374:14, 2401:8, 2329:20, 2449:13 2440:3, 2451:4 swamp [1] - 2349:9 2411:4, 2411:5, 2424:24, strengthen [1] - 2325:22 suggested [5] - 2438:9, swell [1] - 2407:21 2448:24 strengths [1] - 2319:7 2438:21, 2439:13, 2440:7, Symposium [1] - 2316:7 started [3] - 2332:12, 2393:2, stress [3] - 2330:7, 2330:11, 2441:10 Syncrude [1] - 2357:13 2399:18 2330:15 suggesting [1] - 2449:17 system [1] - 2346:17 starting [1] - 2453:15 stressed [1] - 2370:25 suitable [1] - 2355:14 systems [1] - 2319:19 starts [1] - 2424:22 stretching [1] - 2438:16 summarize [4] - 2306:11, table [3] - 2322:7, 2402:6, state [4] - 2329:19, 2330:6, strictly [1] - 2338:7 2310:11, 2389:6, 2408:23 2402:10 2345:10, 2387:12 strong [5] - 2323:3, 2333:19, summarizing [2] - 2310:18, tailings [6] - 2375:8, statement [1] - 2331:7 2333:20, 2336:8, 2437:21 2425:19 2375:11, 2379:20, statements [1] - 2352:19 stronger [2] - 2315:1, 2315:6 summary [1] - 2358:20 2423:10, 2424:11, 2425:6 Statements [1] - 2367:7 strongly [2] - 2363:3, summation [1] - 2349:14 talent [1] - 2417:8 States [2] - 2368:13, 2370:19 2437:16 summer [10] - 2392:7, talks [1] - 2433:19 statistics [1] - 2335:19 strongly-held [1] - 2437:16 2393:21, 2412:6, 2419:22, tank [1] - 2348:20 status [3] - 2358:16, 2373:6 struggle [5] - 2312:6, 2421:7, 2421:19, 2427:16, tar [1] - 2357:13 stay [3] - 2333:10, 2352:5, 2320:5, 2394:24, 2395:7, 2428:20, 2429:3, 2433:16 TASEKO [8] - 2302:6, 2441:21 2445:19 sums [1] - 2308:1 2302:9, 2302:19, 2302:20, stayed [3] - 2335:4, 2427:22, student [1] - 2354:9 supplement [1] - 2427:3 2351:21, 2380:25, 2431:13 students [3] - 2354:9, supplied [1] - 2358:4 2434:11, 2436:18 Staying [2] - 2313:19 2393:21, 2430:2 supplies [2] - 2328:17, Taseko [85] - 2300:13, stems [1] - 2351:23 studied [2] - 2357:10, 2342:2 2303:10, 2303:15, step [1] - 2368:25 2365:12 support [9] - 2307:13, 2304:16, 2305:25, Stephen [1] - 2301:18 studies [10] - 2354:1, 2354:3, 2307:15, 2307:21, 2306:25, 2307:2, 2308:11, steps [2] - 2399:4, 2449:2 2357:21, 2358:9, 2359:1, 2314:25, 2315:5, 2353:13, 2309:2, 2333:4, 2333:8, stewards [1] - 2314:18 2359:10, 2364:21, 2357:19, 2398:13, 2438:6 2333:25, 2338:13, Stewardship [1] - 2313:20 2372:18, 2377:24, 2385:1 supported [4] - 2323:9, 2339:14, 2345:8, 2350:17, 2351:20, 2352:1, 2360:19, stewardship [2] - 2360:24, Studies [1] - 2357:12 2363:3, 2376:2, 2379:2 2446:24 Study [5] - 2357:13, 2357:24, supporters [1] - 2336:8 2361:16, 2363:12, 2364:3, 2366:25, 2375:25, sticks [2] - 2389:25, 2401:10 2380:16, 2440:22, 2443:3 suppose [1] - 2397:15 2380:20, 2386:2, 2386:12, still [21] - 2308:19, 2317:8, study [12] - 2357:23, 2359:5, supposed [2] - 2428:20, 2319:8, 2323:21, 2324:13, 2360:14, 2360:15, 2448:18 2386:24, 2388:24, 2329:5, 2329:21, 2358:22, 2369:12, 2369:19, suppression [1] - 2365:25 2389:13, 2390:10, 2393:10, 2395:2, 2396:24, 2360:22, 2368:13, 2371:21, 2372:15, 2373:9, Supreme [1] - 2358:19 2378:17, 2379:1, 2389:3, 2373:16, 2383:21, 2443:6 surety [2] - 2400:1, 2408:5 2396:25, 2401:12, 2402:3, 2402:7, 2402:19, 2403:2, 2393:13, 2396:14, stuff [3] - 2369:5, 2371:10, surface [1] - 2416:17 2403:21, 2404:8, 2404:12, 2401:19, 2417:13, 2401:15 surprise [1] - 2392:18 2405:2, 2405:22, 2407:5, 2419:23, 2420:21, 2426:1, subject [2] - 2311:2, 2443:11 surrounding [7] - 2307:12, 2429:14 submission [5] - 2310:10, 2354:18, 2361:21, 2409:16, 2410:9, 2411:10, 2421:1, 2424:16, 2430:19, stock [1] - 2378:11 2330:21, 2353:25, 2363:12, 2413:25, 2432:7, 2432:15, 2434:8, stocked [1] - 2443:24 2356:13, 2436:16 2424:25, 2452:24 2435:4, 2435:8, 2435:15, stocking [1] - 2443:19 submissions [3] - 2325:9, surroundings [1] - 2318:1 2435:24, 2436:2, 2436:23, Stone [6] - 2366:24, 2373:1, 2449:3, 2450:10 surveyor [1] - 2320:11 2437:3, 2438:3, 2440:10, 2394:8, 2417:7, 2429:11, submit [8] - 2309:21, 2310:4, Surveyor [1] - 2320:15 2440:12, 2440:16, 2453:16 2350:25, 2382:5, 2387:22, Surveys [1] - 2320:14 2440:22, 2440:25, 2441:6, stone [2] - 2322:3, 2399:10 2424:7, 2430:8, 2434:24 survival [4] - 2321:8, 2441:15, 2441:24, 2442:2, Stoney [1] - 2427:21 submits [1] - 2441:15 2321:19, 2322:5, 2361:15 24 Mainland Reporting Services Inc. 604.520.3838 [email protected] Prosperity Gold-Copper Mine Project - Volume 14 - April 1, 2010
2442:7, 2442:23, 2443:2, Thanksgiving [1] - 2327:4 2434:10, 2445:24, 2452:1, 2393:24, 2394:1, 2394:2, 2443:6, 2443:11, 2444:1, THE [54] - 2299:8, 2302:4, 2452:3 2398:20, 2403:17 2444:3, 2444:10, 2448:9 2302:7, 2302:10, 2302:22, Three [1] - 2351:24 Tourism [2] - 2310:14, Taseko's [6] - 2319:22, 2303:13, 2309:25, three-and-a-half [4] - 2393:23 2338:10, 2338:18, 2351:19, 2353:8, 2353:9, 2430:21, 2434:10, 2452:1, tourists [7] - 2343:14, 2349:15, 2351:14, 2443:23 2356:8, 2356:15, 2356:19, 2452:3 2360:12, 2362:9, 2363:4, Taseko/Whitewater [2] - 2380:2, 2380:12, 2380:20, thrilled [1] - 2328:21 2404:4, 2409:21 2339:17, 2339:25 2382:3, 2382:7, 2382:12, Throughout [2] - 2432:25, towards [9] - 2359:11, Tatlow [3] - 2320:12, 2362:2, 2382:25, 2383:6, 2383:8, 2436:9 2371:18, 2373:1, 2373:5, 2430:2 2385:24, 2386:12, 2387:8, throughout [4] - 2338:23, 2373:25, 2395:4, 2398:16, Tatshenshini–Alsek [1] - 2387:22, 2388:10, 2350:1, 2362:2, 2451:16 2425:15, 2446:20 2379:6 2388:13, 2402:5, 2402:10, thrown [1] - 2349:8 towns [1] - 2447:12 taught [2] - 2323:23, 2324:18 2402:14, 2402:18, Thursday [3] - 2396:9, toxic [2] - 2422:23, 2424:21 tax [1] - 2441:4 2402:22, 2403:2, 2408:22, 2396:22, 2453:16 toxins [1] - 2422:8 taxes [1] - 2441:1 2410:3, 2410:15, 2410:21, tied [1] - 2314:22 toys [1] - 2367:20 taxpayers [2] - 2378:5, 2410:24, 2411:2, 2414:7, tight [1] - 2408:24 trade [1] - 2315:22 2378:12 2415:1, 2415:9, 2423:23, Title [6] - 2307:14, 2320:6, traders [1] - 2315:25 tea [3] - 2412:24, 2421:11, 2425:18, 2426:8, 2426:13, 2324:16, 2358:19, 2374:1, tradition [3] - 2329:10, 2421:15 2430:11, 2430:14, 2431:5, 2441:19 2329:14, 2329:17 teach [2] - 2413:19, 2413:20 2434:5, 2434:18, 2447:23, title [3] - 2394:15, 2444:9, Traditional [1] - 2445:6 teacher [1] - 2415:18 2451:24 2450:2 traditional [10] - 2303:19, Teaching [1] - 2433:10 Their's [1] - 2318:17 TO [5] - 2299:7, 2302:19, 2308:16, 2314:11, teaching [1] - 2447:4 theirs [1] - 2322:16 2302:20, 2434:11, 2436:18 2330:18, 2341:21, team [1] - 2328:20 theme [1] - 2326:2 Today [3] - 2308:19, 2361:19, 2413:22, tear [1] - 2309:4 theoretically [1] - 2317:19 2419:24, 2433:7 2421:21, 2437:22, 2439:25 technical [1] - 2381:6 theories [1] - 2405:14 today [20] - 2306:22, traditionally [2] - 2335:2, Telephone [1] - 2329:3 there'll [3] - 2321:18, 2306:24, 2307:2, 2313:15, 2355:1 telephone [1] - 2336:19 2339:15, 2430:25 2316:1, 2318:20, 2323:20, traditions [1] - 2306:6 [1] ten [2] - 2315:14, 2419:10 thereafter - 2454:9 2329:15, 2356:17, traffic [10] - 2339:24, tends [2] - 2367:8, 2383:15 therefore [4] - 2317:24, 2357:16, 2374:24, 2341:23, 2342:13, 2343:2, 2318:9, 2392:20, 2399:5 tenuous [1] - 2322:17 2381:22, 2389:4, 2395:21, 2344:25, 2345:4, 2347:20, Therefore [1] - 2413:17 tenures [1] - 2400:1 2397:25, 2401:20, 2384:16, 2384:17, 2384:21 [1] term [11] - 2309:11, 2319:25, therein - 2440:23 2414:17, 2434:7, 2444:6, tragedy [3] - 2321:16, 2321:5, 2338:1, 2344:23, thesis [1] - 2354:10 2453:14 2323:2, 2328:2 2352:25, 2355:7, 2368:25, thing's [1] - 2403:9 together [5] - 2334:22, trail [3] - 2372:1, 2399:13, 2377:20, 2396:4, 2446:23 thinking [1] - 2354:23 2421:9, 2430:7, 2446:20, 2418:5 terms [5] - 2305:7, 2305:23, third [1] - 2352:8 2449:3 trails [10] - 2321:25, 2322:14, 2371:12, 2387:16, 2430:19 thoughts [4] - 2313:14, tolerated [1] - 2335:7 2359:21, 2361:18, 2364:3, terrestrial [1] - 2381:6 2321:1, 2415:17, 2429:5 Tom [3] - 2391:17, 2392:3, 2366:15, 2366:16, territory [12] - 2303:18, thousand [3] - 2315:14, 2406:9 2366:20, 2367:21, 2367:24 2303:20, 2312:5, 2347:21, 2403:13, 2407:25 tongue [1] - 2324:18 training [4] - 2359:10, 2359:17, 2360:16, 2361:7, thousands [5] - 2319:24, tonight [1] - 2448:18 2361:17, 2361:20, 2442:19 2362:3, 2370:2, 2372:9, 2320:20, 2335:11, 2397:8, tons [1] - 2397:8 tranquillity [1] - 2342:16 2448:7, 2449:16 2403:15 took [3] - 2328:16, 2329:25, transcribed [1] - 2454:9 test [2] - 2435:1, 2435:23 threat [16] - 2340:5, 2340:9, 2353:14 transcript [1] - 2454:10 tested [1] - 2326:10 2340:10, 2340:11, tool [2] - 2319:18, 2405:21 transfer [1] - 2380:12 testimonies [1] - 2450:5 2340:12, 2340:15, Toosey [1] - 2453:17 transient [2] - 2331:15, testing [1] - 2354:7 2340:20, 2340:22, top [4] - 2356:6, 2397:6, 2332:6 text [1] - 2425:20 2340:23, 2340:24, 2341:1, 2403:22, 2411:15 translate [3] - 2333:23, 2341:3, 2341:7, 2341:8, Teztan [30] - 2308:7, 2308:9, total [1] - 2346:2 2414:25, 2415:3 2308:12, 2308:19, 2309:8, 2341:9, 2345:15 totally [2] - 2404:23, 2404:24 TRANSLATED [2] - 2302:17, 2311:25, 2322:18, threaten [2] - 2327:15, Tough [1] - 2334:6 2431:9 2333:15, 2349:16, 2354:17 tourism [29] - 2336:20, translated [1] - 2416:19 2351:13, 2367:5, 2411:16, threatened [2] - 2372:16, 2337:4, 2344:1, 2347:14, transmission [5] - 2364:25, 2412:7, 2412:10, 2412:16, 2373:14 2348:8, 2348:10, 2349:25, 2368:2, 2369:2, 2384:11, 2412:18, 2412:23, 2413:9, threatening [1] - 2449:16 2357:20, 2359:5, 2359:8, 2385:18 2413:11, 2413:12, 2414:1, threats [1] - 2364:24 2359:14, 2359:21, 2360:3, trapped [6] - 2308:14, 2414:10, 2414:13, three [15] - 2328:16, 2333:6, 2360:6, 2361:8, 2361:18, 2319:15, 2319:16, 2421:5, 2416:11, 2420:14, 2421:5, 2352:11, 2378:8, 2398:6, 2361:19, 2361:25, 2427:1, 2427:4 2421:9, 2421:17, 2433:19, 2398:9, 2408:15, 2410:12, 2362:13, 2363:20, trappers [2] - 2336:6, 2337:2 2452:23 2420:22, 2424:3, 2430:21, 2364:14, 2379:19, 2390:3, trapping [2] - 2427:14,
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2431:16 turn [10] - 2306:16, 2321:22, 2372:7, 2376:5, 2376:21, 2328:5, 2330:17, 2335:4, travel [2] - 2320:17, 2385:1 2328:22, 2329:3, 2356:24, 2378:5, 2378:12, 2378:13, 2344:21, 2348:9, 2361:3, travelled [7] - 2315:20, 2379:20, 2383:4, 2396:2, 2378:15, 2389:3, 2392:3, 2361:8, 2373:19, 2383:11, 2355:8, 2373:10, 2384:14, 2399:10, 2418:14 2392:6, 2392:16, 2392:24, 2397:13, 2397:18, 2385:3, 2412:7, 2413:4 turned [1] - 2383:24 2393:2, 2393:3, 2393:4, 2397:19, 2397:21, 2408:20 travelling [2] - 2327:9, Turner [1] - 2393:15 2396:8, 2397:6, 2398:18, valued [1] - 2440:4 2453:18 twice [1] - 2384:7 2398:19, 2399:3, 2399:8, values [15] - 2359:6, 2360:5, travels [2] - 2320:13, Two [1] - 2337:7 2400:25, 2401:15, 2361:1, 2364:13, 2364:14, 2453:19 two [12] - 2304:14, 2316:21, 2403:10, 2404:4, 2404:13, 2369:3, 2372:23, 2373:4, tree [6] - 2322:3, 2370:8, 2358:25, 2360:4, 2368:5, 2406:1, 2406:7, 2406:25, 2375:15, 2375:18, 2370:15, 2372:8, 2377:9, 2392:25, 2393:14, 2407:13, 2407:14, 2377:25, 2398:1, 2413:12, 2403:18 2395:13, 2403:21, 2407:16, 2407:21, 2408:7, 2413:22, 2437:23 trees [1] - 2309:4 2410:12, 2419:6, 2439:3 2408:9, 2408:10, 2408:13, Vancouver [3] - 2313:25, Triangle [2] - 2372:24, U.S [1] - 2366:9 2408:16, 2409:15, 2424:17, 2424:23 2374:1 U.S.'s [1] - 2383:23 2411:14, 2412:11, vantage [1] - 2407:1 tried [11] - 2328:7, 2380:9, ultimately [1] - 2399:21 2412:16, 2412:23, 2413:2, Vanuatu [1] - 2334:20 2394:12, 2398:17, 2401:8, unacceptable [1] - 2404:23 2415:24, 2420:14, vast [1] - 2315:23 2401:21, 2429:23, unanswered [1] - 2396:14 2420:16, 2420:25, 2421:1, vegetation [1] - 2425:2 2425:12, 2425:14, 2439:18, 2449:22, 2449:25 unbiassed [1] - 2390:25 vehicle [1] - 2327:10 2428:13, 2428:14, 2430:2, Trina [1] - 2312:10 uncle [1] - 2419:5 vehicles [4] - 2333:16, 2433:11, 2433:14, trip [1] - 2418:9 unconscionable [1] - 2339:16, 2346:7, 2352:7 2447:13, 2449:18, trips [3] - 2342:14, 2343:22, 2375:13 version [1] - 2380:19 2449:21, 2450:1, 2451:17 2392:8 unconsidered [1] - 2399:3 via [1] - 2410:20 Up [1] - 2351:3 trouble [1] - 2425:14 unconsulted [1] - 2399:2 Via [1] - 2410:21 upcoming [1] - 2303:22 troubling [1] - 2319:14 under [9] - 2320:15, 2382:14, viable [1] - 2368:13 updated [1] - 2380:18 trout [7] - 2310:9, 2340:17, 2387:3, 2387:16, 2394:15, vibrant [1] - 2324:20 updates [1] - 2390:23 2347:25, 2350:7, 2420:24, 2395:24, 2416:17, Vic's [1] - 2403:22 upgraded [2] - 2362:21, 2422:2, 2423:1 2422:11, 2441:5 vice [1] - 2308:6 2363:15 Truck [1] - 2352:24 undergraduate [1] - 2335:18 vice-presidents [1] - 2308:6 upgrading [1] - 2368:1 truck [1] - 2345:4 underground [2] - 2424:16, vicious [1] - 2330:8 upheld [1] - 2391:3 trucks [2] - 2339:20, 2347:18 2424:19 Vickers [1] - 2441:20 upper [1] - 2428:21 true [1] - 2454:9 underlying [1] - 2329:20 Vickers' [1] - 2441:14 upward [1] - 2370:14 truly [3] - 2325:6, 2379:16, understood [1] - 2351:25 victory [1] - 2334:9 uranium [1] - 2378:4 2395:25 undertake [4] - 2353:17, view [10] - 2319:4, 2325:24, trust [2] - 2334:14, 2438:6 2386:15, 2436:11, 2444:12 use" [2] - 2439:19, 2439:21 2364:1, 2371:17, 2385:23, users [1] - 2391:4 truth [2] - 2335:5, 2416:20 undertaking [4] - 2305:1, 2390:15, 2391:3, 2404:21, truths [2] - 2314:4, 2321:23 2434:14, 2434:15, 2436:17 utilize [1] - 2393:3 2407:1, 2439:19 [1] Truths [1] - 2313:20 UNDERTAKING [2] - vacation - 2346:19 viewed [2] - 2321:14, 2440:5 try [6] - 2308:1, 2319:21, 2302:19, 2434:11 Valhalla [11] - 2357:6, viewing [8] - 2359:14, 2381:10, 2399:11, unfortunate [4] - 2375:23, 2357:7, 2358:2, 2358:6, 2360:20, 2361:1, 2361:2, 2399:16, 2401:19 2389:17, 2391:2, 2409:24 2358:7, 2375:2, 2375:3, 2361:20, 2361:21, 2375:16, 2378:23, 2379:8, trying [3] - 2316:18, 2386:15, Unfortunately [1] - 2331:23 2363:20, 2366:19 2379:10 2409:13 unfortunately [1] - 2327:19 viewpoint [1] - 2374:9 validity [1] - 2348:4 Ts'yl [3] - 2360:9, 2360:13, unions [1] - 2313:11 views [8] - 2356:17, 2389:19, Valley [25] - 2299:24, 2306:2, 2374:11 unique [3] - 2311:8, 2311:9, 2410:4, 2416:21, 2437:15, 2306:21, 2307:4, 2307:12, Ts'yl-os [3] - 2360:9, 2358:23 2444:23, 2453:4, 2453:6 2310:14, 2320:18, 2323:6, 2360:13, 2374:11 United [1] - 2368:12 village [1] - 2334:25 2323:17, 2330:6, 2336:9, Tsawalk [1] - 2319:3 unless [1] - 2313:7 villages [1] - 2332:24 2336:20, 2349:15, Tsil?os [1] - 2320:11 Unlike [1] - 2355:4 violence [2] - 2332:15, 2349:22, 2353:11, Tsilhqot'in [32] - 2304:19, unmentioned [1] - 2399:2 2332:23 2353:17, 2354:14, 2358:3, 2308:10, 2308:13, unnecessarily [1] - 2364:9 virtually [1] - 2363:25 2359:22, 2372:24, 2375:6, 2312:10, 2320:18, unprecedented [1] - 2321:14 visionary [1] - 2323:13 2412:15, 2429:11, 2323:22, 2324:8, 2324:15, unresolved [1] - 2396:15 visit [1] - 2386:21 2429:22, 2452:20 2325:12, 2325:21, 2326:7, unroaded [1] - 2363:25 visited [3] - 2323:15, valley [13] - 2310:24, 2320:3, 2327:21, 2334:5, 2354:24, unspoilt [1] - 2336:11 2417:15, 2428:1 2320:13, 2321:25, 2354:25, 2355:6, 2362:8, up [79] - 2308:1, 2309:5, visitors [4] - 2362:9, 2322:22, 2323:7, 2330:13, 2415:14, 2415:22, 2416:3, 2312:22, 2314:3, 2320:17, 2389:13, 2389:15, 2390:11 2358:7, 2378:20, 2378:21, 2416:7, 2421:3, 2421:5, 2329:1, 2337:9, 2338:17, voice [3] - 2316:5, 2417:3, 2403:24, 2415:6, 2424:6 2421:8, 2423:13, 2428:6, 2338:19, 2351:9, 2356:6, 2451:20 valleys [1] - 2346:18 2436:4, 2436:6, 2438:11, 2361:2, 2363:12, 2364:7, voiced [1] - 2451:17 value [16] - 2314:9, 2322:4, 2438:15, 2438:19, 2443:22 2366:14, 2369:20, 2370:8, voices [1] - 2311:14 26 Mainland Reporting Services Inc. 604.520.3838 [email protected] Prosperity Gold-Copper Mine Project - Volume 14 - April 1, 2010
Voices [2] - 2307:19, 2323:6 2388:9, 2453:19 2324:4, 2340:7, 2341:17, Witaskewin [1] - 2318:25 volcano [1] - 2334:19 weekends [2] - 2346:9, 2341:23, 2345:6, 2348:6, WITNESS [1] - 2454:13 Volume [1] - 2299:16 2413:7 2348:12, 2349:1, 2350:11, Wolfgang [2] - 2308:6, volunteer [1] - 2307:5 weeks [2] - 2447:21, 2452:10 2357:15, 2359:6, 2359:14, 2309:22 vulnerable [1] - 2384:21 welcome [3] - 2303:18, 2360:8, 2362:18, 2363:25, wolverine [1] - 2350:15 Wade [2] - 2310:25, 2321:13 2426:9, 2453:9 2364:13, 2365:4, 2370:11, Wolverines [1] - 2365:5 wagon [2] - 2328:16, Well-Being [1] - 2443:7 2371:5, 2377:21, 2381:7, wolves [2] - 2348:25, 2328:20 well-being [2] - 2445:17, 2422:2, 2423:3, 2435:25 2358:21 wait [1] - 2346:4 2445:22 Wilfred [4] - 2419:24, women [1] - 2342:21 Wake [1] - 2425:14 well-established [1] - 2424:5, 2424:6, 2429:14 won [1] - 2334:8 walk [4] - 2316:11, 2317:1, 2329:12 WILLIAM [9] - 2302:15, wonder [2] - 2334:14, 2448:1 2320:9, 2328:25 Wesley [1] - 2322:10 2302:17, 2302:18, wonderful [2] - 2360:12, walked [2] - 2322:14, west [5] - 2360:23, 2376:23, 2426:16, 2426:18, 2431:4, 2426:5 2328:24 2377:7, 2412:2, 2412:13 2431:9, 2431:10, 2431:11 Woods [2] - 2393:13, walking [1] - 2327:8 Western [5] - 2317:19, William [23] - 2301:9, 2393:16 Walking [1] - 2321:25 2327:19, 2366:8, 2369:20, 2301:11, 2301:12, word [4] - 2329:16, 2333:20, 2304:23, 2305:22, wants [2] - 2309:3, 2441:24 2445:7 2353:13 2311:22, 2322:2, 2322:8, war [1] - 2329:9 wet [1] - 2370:16 words [8] - 2313:13, 2378:3, 2325:9, 2388:21, 2419:2, warfare [1] - 2329:10 wetlands [2] - 2377:4, 2416:19, 2430:23, 2431:1, 2419:6, 2419:7, 2419:24, warier [1] - 2385:9 2397:8 2439:20, 2448:2 2421:14, 2424:6, 2425:23, warming [2] - 2366:2, 2371:3 wetter [1] - 2369:24 workers [4] - 2322:25, 2426:10, 2427:3, 2427:9, Wasp [6] - 2404:14, 2404:15, WHEREOF [1] - 2454:13 2338:19, 2338:21, 2352:5 2427:19, 2429:14, 2434:5 2405:18, 2405:20, Whistler [1] - 2357:9 works [1] - 2378:12 WILLIAMS [15] - 2302:5, 2406:13, 2432:21 white [1] - 2370:18 world [15] - 2307:7, 2311:4, 2306:18, 2306:19, 2310:3, waste [1] - 2424:21 White [1] - 2315:13 2311:13, 2312:19, 2352:15, 2352:18, watched [1] - 2316:20 whole [16] - 2318:17, 2312:22, 2315:2, 2315:7, 2353:15, 2353:19, watchful [1] - 2387:3 2343:11, 2362:4, 2365:23, 2319:4, 2319:17, 2325:23, 2353:23, 2354:5, 2354:20, water [22] - 2309:17, 2368:7, 2371:23, 2374:17, 2348:25, 2359:13, 2355:21, 2356:5, 2356:14, 2312:20, 2322:20, 2342:5, 2375:22, 2376:21, 2413:16, 2414:4, 2425:14 2356:18 2346:4, 2346:17, 2351:15, 2384:16, 2396:10, 2409:5, World [1] - 2311:1 Williams [26] - 2301:3, 2392:6, 2396:16, 2407:13, 2414:18, 2414:22, worms [1] - 2409:4 2305:13, 2306:17, 2407:15, 2407:16, 2432:25, 2448:13 worried [4] - 2337:17, 2306:20, 2309:25, 2322:2, 2407:18, 2408:1, 2422:3, wide [1] - 2357:14 2342:7, 2342:18, 2343:7 2324:5, 2328:17, 2330:8, 2422:9, 2422:13, 2422:14, wife [4] - 2417:11, 2417:17, worrisome [1] - 2332:19 2333:7, 2336:17, 2351:19, 2422:24, 2423:5, 2437:24 2417:19, 2428:4 worry [2] - 2328:13, 2400:19 2351:24, 2356:8, 2363:24, waters [5] - 2309:6, 2309:10, wife's [1] - 2428:9 worst [2] - 2325:4, 2344:18 2367:14, 2382:2, 2389:16, 2314:23, 2321:9, 2350:17 wild [20] - 2307:15, 2354:6, worth [1] - 2349:5 2389:19, 2389:20, watershed [6] - 2308:12, 2354:11, 2358:21, wounding [1] - 2321:11 2389:21, 2391:19, 2340:19, 2342:3, 2346:12, 2358:22, 2359:6, 2361:4, wrapping [1] - 2369:20 2392:10, 2402:15, 2407:12, 2424:16 2361:11, 2361:18, writing [13] - 2311:2, 2411:18, 2427:6 watersheds [1] - 2424:19 2361:20, 2366:19, 2313:16, 2316:14, 2317:4, willing [3] - 2355:21, Wayfinders [1] - 2310:25 2366:22, 2367:1, 2370:6, 2381:17, 2382:4, 2382:11, 2423:21, 2429:6 WAYNE [2] - 2302:8, 2370:13, 2370:16, 2395:16, 2402:4, 2402:21, willingness [1] - 2445:11 2356:22 2370:22, 2408:11, 2402:24, 2410:13, 2450:11 wind [1] - 2424:25 Wayne [5] - 2301:4, 2305:14, 2422:25, 2423:15 written [6] - 2312:11, 2319:9, Windy [1] - 2379:4 2353:20, 2357:3, 2403:11 Wild [6] - 2307:16, 2350:24, 2319:10, 2319:15, winter [11] - 2333:17, Wayne's [2] - 2353:24, 2358:18, 2359:4, 2362:23, 2319:17, 2329:16 2360:11, 2365:5, 2376:25, 2389:24 2365:19 wrote [2] - 2428:16, 2428:22 2408:8, 2420:16, 2421:6, ways [4] - 2309:1, 2317:4, wilderness [25] - 2312:21, Xeni [70] - 2299:23, 2303:10, 2432:12, 2433:5, 2435:3 2326:5, 2355:15 2337:13, 2339:3, 2341:19, 2303:18, 2303:19, 2305:2, wintertime [1] - 2408:10 wealth [4] - 2355:1, 2355:5, 2342:11, 2343:18, 2348:6, 2306:23, 2307:8, 2307:13, wipe [1] - 2348:17 2355:10 2349:24, 2357:20, 2307:18, 2311:22, 2320:3, wiped [1] - 2348:13 weathers [1] - 2322:15 2358:11, 2359:7, 2359:13, 2320:22, 2323:17, 2329:7, 2359:16, 2359:20, wisdom [1] - 2334:24 web [1] - 2374:14 2330:11, 2330:15, 2360:15, 2362:25, 2363:5, Wisdom [1] - 2311:1 website [6] - 2308:5, 2308:7, 2331:18, 2331:20, wish [11] - 2317:25, 2360:3, 2309:19, 2309:20, 2364:7, 2371:17, 2390:2, 2333:18, 2336:13, 2375:23, 2387:22, 2411:5, 2396:23, 2396:24 2393:24, 2395:19, 2349:18, 2350:3, 2357:1, 2398:20, 2403:17, 2404:2 2434:17, 2437:22, 2438:8, Wednesday [1] - 2453:16 2357:8, 2359:6, 2359:14, Wilderness [4] - 2310:14, 2441:20, 2453:18, 2453:19 week [5] - 2368:7, 2386:16, 2360:9, 2361:12, 2361:14, wished [2] - 2324:17, 2378:2 2391:19, 2408:16, 2453:15 2350:23, 2357:6, 2358:7 2363:8, 2363:16, 2363:22, wildlife [26] - 2312:21, wishes [2] - 2386:24, weekend [3] - 2386:16, 2366:12, 2368:18, 2444:13 27 Mainland Reporting Services Inc. 604.520.3838 [email protected] Prosperity Gold-Copper Mine Project - Volume 14 - April 1, 2010
2369:18, 2370:1, 2370:16, Zilker [2] - 2308:6, 2309:22 2372:3, 2372:12, 2373:21, zone [5] - 2342:9, 2343:14, 2373:25, 2375:14, 2388:7, 2384:15, 2384:18, 2406:18 2393:9, 2393:18, 2393:24, zones [1] - 2364:20 2394:8, 2394:9, 2395:19, 2412:14, 2412:22, 2416:23, 2417:16, 2420:19, 2425:10, 2437:12, 2437:21, 2440:2, 2440:4, 2440:12, 2440:16, 2441:7, 2441:20, 2443:4, 2443:5, 2443:12, 2444:1, 2444:11, 2445:2, 2450:12 Xeni's [1] - 2394:2 Yan [1] - 2433:19 year [14] - 2339:13, 2369:24, 2384:7, 2392:4, 2392:12, 2392:16, 2397:3, 2408:15, 2412:24, 2413:5, 2417:22, 2420:4, 2423:8, 2433:15 Year [1] - 2313:4 yearly [1] - 2326:22 years [45] - 2315:14, 2319:24, 2320:5, 2320:12, 2320:20, 2323:5, 2324:3, 2328:16, 2329:22, 2335:12, 2337:9, 2338:18, 2343:1, 2357:10, 2357:11, 2358:8, 2359:9, 2361:11, 2361:17, 2365:25, 2393:2, 2393:19, 2393:22, 2394:16, 2395:13, 2396:6, 2398:7, 2398:9, 2398:18, 2399:25, 2401:13, 2405:10, 2409:10, 2411:17, 2415:5, 2417:25, 2418:6, 2419:13, 2425:6, 2450:12, 2450:18, 2450:22, 2450:24, 2451:1, 2451:3 yellow [2] - 2369:25, 2418:13 Yellowstone [6] - 2368:11, 2372:6, 2383:22, 2384:2, 2384:23 yesterday [12] - 2303:25, 2305:5, 2305:6, 2310:17, 2310:19, 2316:16, 2331:7, 2355:3, 2355:7, 2380:8, 2415:21, 2442:22 Young [1] - 2332:18 young [7] - 2323:25, 2329:21, 2333:18, 2342:21, 2365:6, 2413:18, 2437:20 youngest [1] - 2417:12 yourselves [1] - 2408:6 youth [8] - 2413:12, 2413:15, 2414:2, 2417:5, 2429:25, 2430:6, 2430:10, 2452:15 Yukon [3] - 2357:12, 2359:19, 2366:8 Yunesit'in [1] - 2428:6 28 Mainland Reporting Services Inc. 604.520.3838 [email protected]