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Originally Posted by Slava
I would say I'm an environmentalist, but I hate to say that because I'm pro-development and progress. And also not crazy. Here's the issue with things like "cyanide in the drinking water," though—no one wants that outcome, and no one favors it. I'm assuming that you're talking about the Eagle Gold Mine? That mine had studies and impact assessments, and they still got the outcome no one wanted. They had a good partnership with the First Nations, and everything was running well until it wasn't. However, this is part of the issue with the consultations and assessments. You can still have bad outcomes just because you do all of those things.
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I'm not really disputing any of this. My point was largely that even if the outcome is wrong, the process needs to be correct, and dismissing these impact assessments as "red tape" is ignorant.