Don’t consider native spirituality in mine review, Ottawa urged

April 30, 2012
By Peter O’Neil
Edmonton Journal

OTTAWA - A new federal environmental review panel “does not have any right to attribute significance to the spirituality of a place per se,” Taseko Mines Ltd. president Russell Hallbauer wrote in a letter obtained under the Access to Information Act and provided to the Vancouver Sun by B.C. independent MLA Bob Simpson.