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Federal Environment Minister Catherine McKenna will likely be in Kamloops at the end of March to meet with city council and First Nations on the proposed Ajax mine.
Mayor Peter Milobar told council Tuesday he has been emailed by McKenna’s staff with possible dates for her visit.
“It sounds like the meeting will take place in Kamloops and it sounds like the minister is coming to Kamloops to meet with us and the SSN,” Mayor Peter Milobar said when McKenna’s letter came up in Tuesday’s council meeting.
“She needs to see the City,” Coun. Tina Lange said afterward. “I think it will be good if she comes here.”
City council has been trying to arrange a meeting with McKenna for months, hoping to persuade the new Liberal government to agree to a full panel review, generally considered the highest level of environmental and health-impact assessment available. The City’s request has now been turned down three times, twice by the Harper Conservative government.
In her letter to the City, received last week, McKenna expressed satisfaction in the current review of Ajax while reserving the right to launch a full panel review if circumstances warrant one.
Agencies/Canadajournal
