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Leaders support New Prosperity in B.C.

As feds mull Taseko's new mine plan, business and civic leaders rally in support of contentious project; opposition demonstrates

Business and civic leaders banded together to demonstrate their support for Taseko Mines Ltd.'s proposal to develop New Prosperity, an enormous copper-gold project situated near Williams Lake, British Columbia.

"We've come together to send a clear message to Ottawa: Our province needs this project," said John Winter, president and CEO of the BC Chamber of Commerce.

Taseko's original plan to mine t...

 

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