Ajax

LETTER – KAPA has been busy on mining issues during the past two years

January 2, 2020 // 1 Comment

Re: Five Important Things Kamloops Must Get Done In 2020 (ArmchairMayor.ca, Dec. 28, 2019) Here is KAPA’s input to the provincial government since 2018: YES WE HAVE [Continue]

ROTHENBURGER – Five important things Kamloops must get done in 2020

December 28, 2019 // 4 Comments

NEW YEAR’S RESOLUTIONS have never been much of a thing with me. I tend to make them as easy as possible in order to avoid failure. In 2020, for example, I will vow to pay [Continue]

BEPPLE – There’s time for meetings, but there’s also a time for protests

October 30, 2019 // 1 Comment

AS CITIES GO, Kamloops is not a hub of protests. Certainly there are protests. On Oct. 15, correctional officers protested violence they face in their workplace outside of [Continue]

EDITORIAL – Hint of Ajax mine being back on the table is unwelcome news

October 1, 2019 // 6 Comments

An editorial by Mel Rothenburger. JUST WHEN WE THOUGHT we were rid of Ajax, it’s back. Maybe. Yes, Abacus Mining, a minority owner in the proposed open-pit copper and gold [Continue]

EDITORIAL – Ajax could happen again unless we change some rules

March 5, 2019 // 1 Comment

An editorial by Mel Rothenburger. THE AJAX MINE PROJECT may seem like a bad dream from long ago but it could happen again, or something like it, here or elsewhere. If it [Continue]

LETTER – Don’t let better regulations to protect communities fall by the wayside

September 26, 2018 // 1 Comment

Letter to Gregor Robertson, Mayor of Vancouver: September 25, 2018 Dear Honourable Mayor Robertson, I’m writing today because I want to draw your attention to comments made [Continue]

AJAX – City asks for veto power over future mine proposals within 10 km.

February 27, 2018 // 4 Comments

If Kamloops City council gets support from the Union of B.C. Municipalities, future mine proposals within 10 km. of city boundaries could require approval from the City [Continue]

AJAX – ‘Prevent all future mining projects within 10 km. of communities’

February 22, 2018 // 4 Comments

Notice of motion by Coun. Dieter Dudy to be discussed at the next meeting of Kamloops City Council: THEREFORE BE IT RESOLVED that the Southern Interior Local Government [Continue]

EDITORIAL – An underground Ajax? Don’t even think about it

January 11, 2018 // 5 Comments

An ArmchairMayor.ca editorial by Mel Rothenburger. I ADMIRE Coun. Donovan Cavers’ open mind but I find his willingness to consider even for a moment another Ajax [Continue]

PETERS – There oughta be a study

December 29, 2017 // 0 Comments

Studies get mocked for being expensive make-work projects, but when they’re done well, they lay the basis for the smartest long term decisions 2017 COULD RIGHTLY be [Continue]

EDITORIAL – A dozen of the most important things that happened in 2017

December 28, 2017 // 3 Comments

An ArmchairMayor.ca editorial by Mel Rothenburger 2017 IS ALMOST over, and quite the year it was. You’ve no doubt got your opinions on the dozen or so most important things [Continue]

ROTHENBURGER – Reflections on Ajax: there’s got to be a better way

December 16, 2017 // 4 Comments

WORD THAT a decision on Ajax was imminent came as a surprise Thursday afternoon. Most everybody had thought B.C. Environment Minister George Heyman and Mines Minister [Continue]

EDITORIAL – The mine that divided a community is dead; let healing begin

December 14, 2017 // 10 Comments

An ArmchairMayor.ca editorial by Mel Rothenburger. THURSDAY’S ANNOUNCEMENT that the Ajax project is dead might be the best news for the Kamloops region since the coming [Continue]

AJAX – B.C. ministers decide not to issue permit for open-pit mine proposal

December 14, 2017 // 9 Comments

Full press release issued today (Dec. 14, 2017) by B.C. ministers on Ajax application: Environment and Climate Change Strategy Minister George Heyman and Energy, Mines and [Continue]