First Nations leaders are in court this week attempting to block Taseko Mines Ltd. from reviving a 1.5-billion dollar mine project that has twice been refused by the federal government. Taseko is bringing forward a constitutional challenge with hopes of overturning a 2014 decision preventing it from building an open pit gold and copper mine 125 kilometres southwest of Williams Lake. The project has met with opposition over environmental issues and was rejected twice, in 2014 and in 2010, by the Harper Conservative government on advice from the Canadian Environmental Assessment Agency. Tsilhqot’in Nation defends its lands and waters from @TasekoMines. Nation fighting company’s efforts to revive twice-rejected mine.

Source: CBC News January 31, 2017 17:26 UTC