Pro-and anti-mining forces are clashing once again over a proposed

copper-gold mine in northern BC.

On Monday Taseko Mines, the proponent of the New Prosperity mining

project, said it has started legal action against people it alleges

have obstructed preparations at the minesite.

In response, the Tsilhqot’in Nation filed an injunction against the

company “to halt its plans for extensive road-building, drilling,

excavation of test pits, and timber clearing in support of its

unprecedented and controversial resubmitted bid for approval of its

soundly rejected Prosperity Mine project,” the Tsilhqot’in, which

represents six First Nations, stated in a press release.

Taseko Mines’ hopes of developing the mine were kept alive earlier

this month when the federal Minister of the Environment, Peter Kent,

ordered the Canadian Environmental Assessment Agency to set up a panel

to examine the company’s New Prosperity copper-gold mine.

The review, which will include public hearings, is supposed to be

wrapped up in a year.

The Vancouver-based company is trying to revive the $1.5-billion

project after the federal government rejected it last fall over the

proposed destruction of a lake to be used as a tailings pond.

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