Barrick Gold to work on mine despite court ruling

AP ^ | 12/04/09

[TigerLikesRooster]

Barrick Gold to work on mine despite court ruling

Fri Dec 4, 6:18 pm ET

TORONTO – Global mining giant Barrick Gold Corp. will continue work on a massive gold mine project in Nevada even though a U.S. court of appeals ordered more environmental analysis on the mining project, a company spokesman said Friday.

Vincent Borg said work will continue on its new $500 million Cortez Hills mine a day after a three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit granted an injunction to force Barrick Gold to postpone digging a 2,000-foot deep open pit at the mine.

The appeals court ruling will be interpreted by a Nevada District Court, which will determine what action, including any suspension of operations, may be required to respond to the decision of the U.S. court of appeals. Borg said that work on the mine will proceed at least until a possible suspension of activities is ordered by the District Court or a further appeal ruling is rendered

[TigerLikesRooster]

Ping!

[WKUHilltopper]

If it’s their land, then screw the judges.

[olrtex]

Would you feel the same way if your neighbor started raising hogs in his yard? Lots of hogs.

[Venturer]

Good for Barrick. It’s time someone took these whacko’s in hand and let them know they arent running this country.

[Atlas Sneezed]

Would you feel the same way if your neighbor started raising hogs in his yard? Lots of hogs.

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Uh, this is REMOTE rural land, and the company owns the right to MINE it.

No neighbors involved.

[WKUHilltopper]

As long as I got some ham.

[Elle Bee]

and it is called the 9th Circus for good reason

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[tet68]

Do not mess with the Borg.
This company must have a pretty rich vein to work,
good for them. Miners have rights too, judges are
not god.

We are on the road to being an impoverished nation
and the government prevents us from using the wealth
lying at our feet, a far cry from the days of our
founding.

[eartrumpet]

Would you feel the same way if your neighbor started raising hogs in his yard? Lots of hogs.

We raise hogs, I’m headed out the door to butcher one right now.

Like the bumper stickers say around here: “Can’t log it, can’t graze it, can’t mine it. Let it burn.”

[org.whodat]

Wrong, we have laws, thanks to coal miners cutting the tops off of mountains and driving away and leaving the mess for the tax payers to clean up.

[org.whodat]

The project as originally proposed would have disturbed 6,792 acres within the 57,058-acre project boundary. Of the disturbed acreage, 6,571 acres were public land and 221 acres were private land belonging to the Cortez Hills mine.

"The ruling reverses the decision of the U.S. District Court in Nevada, which had denied the motion for preliminary injunction filed by the South Fork Band Council of Western Shoshone, the Te-Moak Tribe of Western Shoshone Indians, the Timbisha Shoshone Tribe, the Western Shoshone Defense Project, and Great Basin Resource Watch in November 2008.

The plaintiffs challenged the U.S. Bureau of Land Management's approval of the Cortez Hills mine expansion in November 2008.

Today the appellate court ruled that the tribes are likely to succeed on the merits on their claims that the BLM violated the National Environmental Policy Act in failing to properly analyze the environmental impacts from the mine on groundwater, air quality, and other natural resources. "

[yorkie01]

Let’s hope for change that we begin to see more and more of this. The cancerous 60’s has metastasized into a gut-wrenching invasion into our lives that must be turned back before it destroys the very ‘heart’ of our nation.

[tet68]

the appellate court ruled that the tribes are likely to succeed

Likely to succeed?
That counts as a verdict now?

I’m likely to be President, if I can just get over that
pesky Palin thing.

[bunkerhill7]

Gold is $1200+ per ounce- cheaper by the dozen- I got 5.

[ladyvet]

You are correct. No neighbors. We live in the area and hubby works for the mine. They already mine underground there and the open pit is what the big deals about.

Shoshone say the mountain is sacred to them. They say that they get medicinal plants and the water from the mountain would be used in the mining process..and it would. I tried to find out what type of plants they are talking about but all I read about is pinon. That stuffs all over so I don't know if there really is something to that part of the story or not.

Yeah, mining is ugly but it has to be done somewhere. People don't know how desolate and barren much of Nevada is. We're not talking about a beautiful wooded mountain with cascading rivers and wide open meadows here. Seven thousand acres of scrub pinon juniper and sage is not a lot out here.

[WKUHilltopper]

We have laws? Nazi Germany had laws too. Private property rights are supreme and critical in a free society.

[dusttoyou]

Gold mining ain’t hog farming and Cortez has damn few neighbors, only competitors.

[GOPJ]

If it’s their land, then screw the judges.

The judges are probably liberal looter types - a la Ayn Rand.

[ASOC]

I did a google earth ‘fly by’ south westof Elko.

Is the mine the partial open pit west and a bit south of the South Fork State Recreaction area? About 8 to 10 miles, you should be able to see one from the other.

Darn software doesn’t lable the works.