Loading ...During the final days of 2014 Canada’s minister of the environment gave the green light to Seabridge Gold’s KSM project in northern British Columbia, the world’s largest undeveloped gold-copper project by reserves.
The joint harmonized federal and provincial environmental assessment process took nearly seven-years and KSM was only the second metal mine in five years to receive approval by Canada and BC.
On Wednesday, Earthworks, a non-profit environmental activist group, issued a scathing report on the KSM project, neatly timed to coincide with KSM’s annual general meeting scheduled for next week.
Earthworks was co-founded in 1988 by J. Michael McCloskey, the current chairman of the largest and richest environmental lobby group in the world – the Sierra Club.
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