ROSSLAND OPEN PIT MINE

Submitted by Nicola on Wed, 26/03/2025 - 6:57am

We Are Asking For More Information. Please Add Your Voice

We really need your help. A proposed Open Pit Mine in Rossland threatens to upend our way of life, obliterate part of the world famous Seven Summits Trail and both airborne and waterborne contamination problems could directly affect our health here in town due to the mine’s proximity. This community deserves and demands a full health and environmental assessment before permitting continues. Whether you are a visitor or citizen of this special place, for or against a mine in general PLEASE read, sign and share our petition asking for more information.

https://chng.it/hHnGJWWjPd

Town: Rossland, BC
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Submitted by stevefrench on Wed, 26/03/2025 - 7:41am.

Who was in town last weekend collecting signatures?  They asked I how I felt about the mine and I said I have a save record ridge hoodie and I love Mell.  They had no idea what I was talking about.  

Submitted by Nicola on Wed, 26/03/2025 - 8:42am.

Not everyone in town knows Mel And I agree, she and all the amazing folks in SRRAC are working hard behind the scenes for us. As the province gets close to a permitting decision, now is the time to remind folks that this issue has not gone away. Someone in the group did have a visiting family member helping to collect sigs. Pretty sure she doesn't know Mel but will be affected by the mine just like all of us. We are grateful that she volunteered to help!

Submitted by Nicola on Wed, 26/03/2025 - 9:21am.
Not everyone in town knows Mel And I agree, she and all the amazing folks in SRRAC are working hard behind the scenes for us. As the province gets close to a permitting decision, now is the time to remind folks that this issue has not gone away. Someone in the group did have a visiting family member helping to collect sigs. Pretty sure she doesn't know Mel but will be affected by the mine just like all of us. We are grateful that she volunteered to help!

Submitted by bikeskiswim on Wed, 26/03/2025 - 12:32pm.

Why is there a group seperate from srrac doing petitions etc 

This just seems confusing and distracting from srracs work?

Submitted by DorothyWD on Wed, 26/03/2025 - 2:31pm.

Thank you, Nicola!  Signed.  The more names we get on any and all petitions, the greater the chance of being heard. We have an excellent SRRAC group working hard to address a lot of the concerning technical and scientific aspects of the mine application.   Please correct me if I am wrong, Nicola or SRRAC, but I think this petition augments their work and gives citizens another opportunity to add their voice to try to compel the government to help ensure they are considering all of the impacts and properly consulting the community members in a fully transparent way  (as opppsed to organizing Zoom meetings during inconvenient times, etc.).

As background for those not aware of the history, there was a consultation process last year that resulted in the project being deemed reviewable and subject to environmental assessment.  However WhY resources then changed their application to lower their production numbers on paper to avoid assessment....which really does not change the fact that opening up the side of a mountain will still have a significant impact.   So things keep changing and as citizens we need to have our voices heard in every way possible and keep the pressure on.

Submitted by km on Wed, 26/03/2025 - 4:59pm.

Signed.

Submitted by Mike on Thu, 27/03/2025 - 3:23am.

No jurisdiction 

Submitted by scotfor on Thu, 27/03/2025 - 6:12am.

Haha!  Gas-lighting, BSBB, and fear-mongering Mike is back. Hey Mikey - there is a guy south of the border you should go work for.,......

Submitted by brothers on Thu, 27/03/2025 - 11:10am.

"No jurisdiction" to voice opposition to something we don't agree with, says the person voicing opposition to something they don't agree with. Classic Mike.

Submitted by Nicola on Fri, 28/03/2025 - 1:43pm.

Thanks for asking for clarification DorothyWD. SRRAC is working tirelessly to ensure due process is followed with this proposal but we citizens need to be heard too. The impacts to the health of our community and the alignment of this project with our core community values is difficult to express within much of the formal approval process, especially when we can't get something as simple as an in-person town meeting with the ministry. I was dismayed by the number of people who thought the whole "mine thing" had gone away when I was talking to people downtown last weekend. It hasn't gone away and we need all hands on deck to make our voices heard. More information about the health, socioeconomic, and environmental impacts is an absolute must. Support SRRAC, sign the petition, put up a sign, write to the premier, tell your friends. SAVE Rossland.

Submitted by TanyaH on Sat, 29/03/2025 - 5:15pm.

Thanks for being part of the solution, Nicola and team. There is power in numbers, let's sign the petition and make our voices heard.

Submitted by Feathers and Fur on Sat, 29/03/2025 - 7:52pm.

Here's an article that shares some insight on the growth potential of mines, as well as their skirting of environmental assessment:

https://thenarwhal.ca/bc-no-environmental-assessment-gibraltar-mine-expa...

 

Damn the man, save Rossland. 

Submitted by DorothyWD on Sun, 30/03/2025 - 7:21am.

That article summarizes what will happen if the Record Ridge permit is approved.  Gov't and citizens are being gaslighted by an Alberta company and investors into believing this "little" operation will have no impact on Rossland.  But they plan to grow, and plan to continue to bypass environmental assessment due to loopholes in legislation that allow incremental increases in production.  Frog in slow boil pot.  We will never see the Record Ridge grasslands ever look the same again.  Get out and hike it as soon as you can this year.  It couid be the last.