Ajax

A Generic Kamloops Industrial Video — Hey, Kamloops, we like you, this is our home!

April 24, 2014 // 6 Comments

EDITOR’S NOTE — In place of his usual column this week, David Charbonneau offers a video, as explained below. COLUMN — After seeing KGHM’s bland video proposing [Continue]

New fees to be levied on environmental assessments for industrial projects in B.C.

April 24, 2014 // 4 Comments

By MIKE YOUDS Hundreds of projects in B.C., including the proposed Ajax Mine, face a bevy of new environmental assessment fees at each step in the regulatory process. The new [Continue]

Mine protesters take their case to Columbia Street, with promise of more actions to come

April 17, 2014 // 1 Comment

By MICHELE YOUNG Another day, another anti-Ajax protest. Thursday afternoon drivers headed up Columbia Street hill this afternoon were met by a line of more than two dozen [Continue]

‘Safe’ Ajax jobs possible if community works together, says Steelworkers 1-417 president

April 16, 2014 // 9 Comments

NEWS — The president of United Steelworkers Local 1-417 says his executive is strongly in favour of the Ajax project, unlike the president of another local, 7619. And he [Continue]

Ajax should have full federal panel review to create confidence: NDP leadership candidate

April 15, 2014 // 2 Comments

By MICHELE YOUNG/ NEWS/ POLITICS — Regardless of the fact he grew up on Vancouver Island and is not affected by the outcome of the proposed Ajax open-pit copper mine [Continue]

‘Continue to fight’ against Ajax, union leader Boyce tells crowd of 300 in Parkside Lounge

April 13, 2014 // 18 Comments

NEWS — A union leader’s perspective was brought to the Ajax debate today as United Steelworkers Local 7619 president Richard Boyce told a crowd of 300 why an open-pit [Continue]