RE:Salmon are major concernWould you expect anything less from a report that was authored by Skeena wild? Bell and Granisle come in at number 9 on their list even though there is a massive dilution factor associated with any release from those mines that mitigates the potential impacts to aquatic life. They say that the company isn't even monitoring for impacts to sockeye but neglect to say that it's because there isn't an actual water quality concern that would necessitate monitoring. If there were a true concern, the ministry of environment would order them to conduct further monitoring and take remedial action.
Yes, Salmon are important, what seems to be lost in translation is that as evidenced through the EAO process, there are no adverse environmental impacts to salmon in particular or aquatic life in general from the proposed morrison mine. Advancing this mine to production is not a trade off between mining copper and sustaining the local salmon population. The science shows that, to the best of our knowledge, the salmon will be adequately protected if the mine proceeds.