BATTLE ROYALS The Kamloops Blazers face the Victoria Royals in the first round of the Western Hockey League playoffs. Games 1 and 2 are in Kamloops on Friday, March 22, and Saturday, March 23.
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Ajax will submit plan in autumn It will also address the mine’s relationship with area First Nations and the andrea@kamloopsthisweek.com Kamloops community. While there have been no hard Proponents of the Ajax mine plan and fast timelines in the review proto submit the project for environmental cess to this point, once KGHM subreview by the end of September. mits its application, the province’s Robin Bartlett, spokeswoman with Environmental Assessment Office will KGHM Ajax, said the company has completed slightly more than half of the have 30 days to determine whether the document is comprehensive. testing required for the application. After that, a 180-day application Company representatives had previreview will begin. It’s at this point the ously suggested the public will get a chance application for the to see the studies open-pit copper and Is KGHM AJAX buying its way KGHM is conducting, gold mine, which into Kamloops? KTW reader Bartlett said. would be located south Bruce Stevens thinks so. “We’ll have answers of Aberdeen, might be Read his letter on page A9 to a lot of questions filed by June. that the community has Bartlett said when been asking,” she said. KGHM took over as “There will be a comment period project operator from Abacus Mining in and we’ll also be scheduling an open 2012, the company decided to review house so the community can come in work that had already been completed and get some more information and ask for the environmental filing. the questions they need to ask.” “They’re just taking their time to Once the application review ends, it make sure that they’re doing everything will be up to the provincial and federal right and making sure everything’s governments to make the final deciaccurate,” she said. “We’re still out there doing some test- sion, with approval needed from both levels. ing and some drilling and making sure Ministers will have 45 days to renwe’re getting all the data that we need.” der a decision. Bartlett said the application deals Barring any further delays, Bartlett with 41 components, including sociosaid KGHM hopes to have the mine economic impacts of the project and start production in the fall of 2016. environmental studies.
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TAKING DOWN NOTES IN LAW-AND-ORDER CLASS
Quinn Brackman practises taking down Broughton Maywood during exercises this week at the Kamloops Youth Academy, an annual camp run by the Kamloops RCMP and Kamloops-Thompson school district to give teens a taste of a career in law enforcement. Turn to page A23 to read about KTW’s visit to the camp. Dave Eagles/KTW