KGHM’s answer to City on extra $200,000 for Ajax study – No
KGHM has replied to the City’s request that it pay the $200,000 cost of completing a study of the Ajax mine application — and the answer is a flat no.
“Unfortunately, we will not be able to help the City of Kamloops further with this review, which is happening outside the joint federal-provincial environmental assessment process,” says project manager Chris Wild in a letter to Mayor Peter Milobar.
City council had asked for the money when it was found that the $300,000 study by SLR Consulting was coming up short and another $200,000 will be needed to finish it.
KGHM put up the first $300,000.
Here’s the letter from Wild:
ArmchairMayor.ca 
No surprise. The parent company is going through hard financial times. KGHM Ajax has laid people off. They can’t afford to be worried about good will.
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This is likely a deliberate move by KGHM to influence the North Kamloops Liberal nomination race by giving Milobar an issue on which he can jump on his white horse and “fight” for the citizens of Kamloops.
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Go Ajax young people of this city need good jobs!
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It is not surprising given they were asking their supporters to vote on your poll, both in an email and via Facebook to try to demonstrate support for this stance. Shame on KGHM/Ajax. They have done nothing for Kamloops but cause strife, grief, heartache and discord. They have also been costing a lot of money – both in staff time and this review, among other things. Time to show them the door. Kamloops deserves better!
Did you see the Malartic law suit details? The company in that case is moving people and offering some compensation to community members directly. MiningWatch doesn’t think KGHM has accounted for added costs in case things don’t go well if they manage to get a permit. If they can’t find 200,000 in their budget, how can we expect them to make needed changes should they get into production.
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Good for them!!
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“We planned a budget for 2016”, however, we left out the $$$ required to straighten out the mess we made of the 18,000 pages of baffleprattle that SL(“show us your work”)R has been sorting through to find the connections between most of our results that mysteriously appeared from our equally mysterious information. Hence the 2500+ questions during the Public Comment Period that now deserve answers.
Whose fault is this? Kamloops City? NO.
The Working Group? Maybe, as they thought it was ok.
The BCEAO, Board of Condoned Errors, Assumptions and Omissions? Maybe, as very little was said or heard.
The community? NO. And they are going to have to live in and put up with bad cheap corporate practices that are around the world for us to see.
KGHMAjax? YES.
The student (KGHMAjax) who wrote the exam (18,000 pages) was unprepared and failed the test. The examiner should talk to the student and suggest a different career path…
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About time they called a halt to this dance.
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I agree with Sean.,..”call a halt to this dance.”
The Independent Consultant’s informational session with so-called results, held at the Coast earlier this year, was a waste of participant time. The Independent Consultant came to speak to us when they had nothing to say…should we trust them to deliver the service they contracted out to with an added $200,000? I think not!
Further, City Hall,
have we paid these people the “full amount” for services the failed to render?
Maybe look our contract over, we may have a case with respect to ‘expecting answers’ for the amount originally agreed to by BOTH parties….after all, they do bear some of the responsibility of “show me the math”. – have they not dealt with similar situations before wherein – in their opinion – the information provided was inadequate and unworkable while Federal Commisioners find the information adequate?!?
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