Our readers have noticed that the anti-mining community has begun monitoring CMJ's Net News, and one in particular bemoans their influence on our poll questions:
"The results of this poll ['Should residents of Elliot Lake, Ont., support renewed uranium mining in the area?'] were a foregone conclusion after the B.C. poll results," he or she wrote. "It is obvious that the anti-mining supporters are monitoring [the CMJ] website. And once again we are going to allow - without lobbying our politicians both federally and provincially - the environmentalists to dictate to our industry. It reminds me of the copper development in northern B.C. in the late '80s that was stopped. A project that would have employed hundreds [was halted] because a few of the environmentalist elite (who could afford the helicopter ride) would white water raft a river."
(We believe the writer was referring to the proposed Windy Craggy copper-cobalt mine near the Tatshenshini River in the northwest corner of British Columbia - M.S.)
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