RE:RE:The salmon are more important $500,000 eachWell said HihoSilver.
Of the 1.2 million Lake Babine sockeye, there are on average only 20 to 24 thousand that spawn in the Morrison creek and Tahlo creek. It is just 2% of the total.
Plus the sockeye that spawn in Morrison creek, travel downstream and mature in Lake Babine before heading to the Pacific. Therefore, it is approximately only 1% of the total Lake Babine sockeye that will be impacted by water quality in Morrison Lake.
The most important piece of info that seems to be overlooked is that the Granisle mine was built on an island in the middle of Babine lake and the Bell Mine was built right on the shore of Lake Babine and still there were no issues.
In science we call this reproduciability. For example, with our cancer screening tests we have several published clinical trials that have similar results. That is very strong evidence that we can expect the same results going forward.
If it happened once, there is a good chance it will happen again. With mines rarely do we have this luxury. In the case of the Morrison mine there are 2 previous mines with no issues.
Thus we have 2 previous mines with no issues and even if there were to be issues, which is highly unlikely, it will only impact approximately 1% of the Lake Babine sockeye.
PS... Maybe I should change my name- the price of gold and more importantly copper has risen, and so it now works out to more than $500,000 per Morrison sockeye.