RE:Itochu is staying!The Big Lie in marketing is to repeat, repeat, repeat without deviating from simple general claims that Raven opposers, which include working scientists, engineers, educators at all levels, geologists, marine biologists, government officials, working moms, university students, artists and musicians can easily refute. The lie is told so often in such an earnest way that eventually the liers are believers.
Read documents on coalwatch.ca for rebuttals to inflated job claims, to certainty of toxic seeps like at Quinsam that continues to get approval for expansions despite failure to mitigate toxins threatening Campbell River salmon habitat, of lowered job numbers like at Quinsam whose promise of the 300 jobs that have stabilized at 140 that carry the added burden of lung diseases and depression that are fast rising even after a few years of working under or above ground, of economic enhancement for mining communities for which there is not a single supporting example. Campbell River, home of expanding and seeping Quinsam is considered economically depressed due to failure to attract new businesses or working families. Trail is suffering a population decline and is still waiting for the economic enhancement promised by mine oweners. In short, what is avoided when proclaiming the the big jobs, jobs, jobs lie is that mines and especially a coal mine will trigger a job decline as industries that cannot coexist in a mining zone (tourism, shellfish aquaculture, organic farming, commercial and sport fishing) will suffer a tsunami of job losses and tax revenue as coal mine airborne toxins would repel a growing retirement sector and young families who want to raise their children in healthy places.
Give us a break, Compliance Energy and your enabler, Christy Clark, your opposition is too savy to be taken in by a fatigued big lie.